The worst-kept secret of Oklahoma State golf is that match play has not been kind to the Pokes. Since it was implemented in 2009, OSU has not won a national championship, even though it has had some of its best teams … probably ever.
It has lost every way possible, too. It has lost with future pros Rickie Fowler and Peter Uihlein. It has lost to Augusta (mercifully not in the match play event this year). And it has lost at home with an all-time team.
And athletic director Mike Holder was at the heart of implementing the entire thing.