Oklahoma State’s Viktor Hovland is the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer. He sat in famed Butler Cabin earlier this month as the low amateur at the Masters.
Most would have predicted Hovland would win the Big 12 men’s golf championship at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia on Sunday, especially when he started the final round as co-leader alongside TCU senior Hayden Springer at 8-under.
But Springer embraced the challenge and made clutch putt after clutch putt en route to the individual title on Sunday. He shot an even-par 70, one better than Hovland’s 71, to claim his first collegiate championship at 8-under 202.