May 17-19 at Trysting Tree in Corvallis. Chris Carnahan will try to repeat his winning ways at Trysting Tree at next week's NCAA West Regional. The top 10 teams, plus the top two individuals, advance to the NCAA Championships, May 30-June 2 at Duke University. We're very familiar with this golf course and have proven in the past that we are able to put up good numbers at Trysting Tree. And if we play even close to the level we are capable of, we should have an excellent chance to advance to nationals.
Golf is a very simple game.
If you keep the ball in the fairway off the tee, it doesn't matter how long you are, especially at Trysting Tree because the course is not playing that long and the greens are fairly big. But if you get in that deep rough, which is about a foot high, you are looking at bogeys, double bogeys and all sorts of bad numbers. I don't think length will be as much of a factor in this tournament as accuracy, club selection and course management. Arizona State, led by Eugene native and 2000 U.S. Amateur champion Jeff Quinney, is the West District's top seed and New Mexico is the No. 1 out of the Mountain. This year, the top nine teams from the West earned automatic bids.