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August 30, 2010

Stillwater Cup goes to Lakeside

By Jason Elmquist Stillwater NewsPress

STILLWATER, Okla. — It’s been a heck of a summer for Oklahoma State University sophomore Sam Lee.

After winning the Lakeside Golf Course match-play tournament and the City Golf Championship, the Fiji native led the charge in the Stillwater Cup for the Lakeside Golf Course team.

Lee finished off the three-day Ryder Cup style golf tournament with a perfect 4-0 record in the four rounds of competition and helped Lakeside top the team from Stillwater Country Club. The Lakeside team clinched the cup, 19.5-10.5, following Sunday’s singles match play at the Lakeside Golf Course.

“I did my part,” said Lee, who won his singles match against Dave Reynolds on Sunday, 1-up. “I never really thought about losing in match play. I might lose in stroke play, but I never really believed that I would lose a match.”

While the first two trophies Lee won this summer were of the individual variety, he said it was nice to get one in the team event considering the style of play is a little more difficult.

“The alternate shot we played on Saturday, I wasn’t really able to focus. I could play bad, and we’d still win in alternate play,” Lee said. “So I kind of lost focus. ... But today I was able to focus more since it was singles. It’s my first time playing in the Stillwater Cup, so it’s always good to get a trophy.”

Lee, who moved to Stillwater in an attempt to walk on for the OSU men’s golf team, still has high hopes of getting on with the Cowboys golf program — despite the fact that the golf team does not have walk on tryouts. Lee is working on impressing the coaches with his play in tournaments and hoping to get looked at to join the squad.

“He’s on fire right now,” said Lakeside captain Michael Henderson, who is the director of golf at Lakeside, of Lee. “Hopefully this success will continue for him because he’s trying to get on at Oklahoma State. If he keeps playing like this and getting into national tournaments, he should be able to do just that.”

In other singles action on Sunday, Lakeside’s Robert Dooley defeated Hank Kaehler 1-up to also go unbeaten in Stillwater Cup — finishing with a 3-0-1 record.

“Robert was an alternate that got called up at the last minute and I don’t think he could have done any better for us,” Henderson said. “He had a great attitude and he’s the kind of person we want on this team. Some one that is going to come in and enjoy themselves and have a lot of fun.”

Lakeside had only won the event once in the previous five years before Sunday’s victory. Henderson said they have a corporate sponsor lined up for the next year’s event that he said will “pump some money into the event and allow us to really build up big next year.”

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