Originally published Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM
PrintNCAA Regional Golf | USC pulls into lead; UW tied for 4th
USC took over the team lead at the NCAA men's golf West Regional on Friday, and host Washington is tied for fourth with one round to play...
BREMERTON — USC took over the team lead at the NCAA men's golf West Regional on Friday, and host Washington is tied for fourth with one round to play.
The top 10 teams of the 27 competing at the Olympic Course at Gold Mountain will advance to the NCAA championships at Purdue.
The best four scores from each five-man team count toward the team total and the Trojans are 2-under 574 and have a five-stroke lead over first-day leader Oregon, now at 579. Clemson is third at 280 and the Huskies and UCLA are 9-over at 585.
It is nine strokes back to 10th-place Wisconsin, which is 18-over at 594.
Oregon senior Joey Benedetti shot 69 for the second straight day and leads the field with a 6-under 138. He has a one-stroke lead over Dan Woltman of Wisconsin, who shot 68 Friday.
Woltman shared low-round honors with Phillip Mollica of Clemson.
Washington sophomore Nick Taylor, the reigning Canadian Amateur champion, shot a 3-under 69 and is in third place at 4-under 140.
"I made a lot of big putts," Taylor said.
The Huskies, who entered the tournament seeded No. 21, led briefly Friday then had troubles on the back nine.
Washington coach Matt Thurmond said that after opening the tournament with the best three nines of the year "we threw away a lot of shots on the back nine."
Tze Huang Choo shot 72, Zach Bixler shot 75 and Darren Wallace and John Wise each had 78s.
Tournament admission is free, and the leading teams will tee off first today at 7 a.m., which is a long-planned tournament precaution to make sure they are able to finish. The Huskies tee off at 7:18 a.m. and are paired with UCLA and Arizona State.
Compiled from team reports.
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