EUGENE, Ore. — If there was a home course advantage Friday for Oregon, during the first round of the NCAA Championships at Eugene Country Club, it wasn’t much reflected in the Ducks’ scores.
Perhaps feeling the pressure of hosting, the Ducks got off to a slow start Friday, rallied a but around the turn but the finished poorly to shoot 11-over 291 as a team. With the top teams in the country playing in the afternoon, the UO men seemed poised to enter Saturday’s second round well off the pace to finish in the top 15 after Sunday and qualify for the final round of stroke play Monday.