CARLSBAD, Calif. – The night before he became an NCAA individual champion, Michael La Sasso tossed and turned in his sleep, just thinking about what was at stake Monday at Omni La Costa.
An exemption into this summer’s U.S. Open.
A likely invitation to next year’s Masters.
NCAA immortality.
“Sleeping with a lead is never easy by any means,” said La Sasso, who led Texas A&M senior Phichaksn Maichon by two shots through 54 holes, “so to try and shut your mind off and go to bed is a very underrated thing to do.”
The next morning Maichon, starting five groups ahead of La Sasso on No.