Perico carded a 76 in the third round and posted a 6-over-
par score of 222 after 54 holes to finish in a tie for 34th at
the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship, played at
Blessings Golf Club. Perico missed the cut by one stroke to
advance to the final round. By tying for 34th, he did beat 115
golfers in his first NCAA Championship, tied three golfers
ranked among the NCAA top 25 and beat 44 golfers ranked
among the nation’s top 100, including 13 of the nation’s top
30! • Peng’s final round effort was one stroke shy of the best
ever by a Ram in NCAA play.
• Peng’s spring season included four top-20 finishes. He
recorded 13 rounds of par or better for the Rams in 2018-
19, most on the team.
• Peng’s 37 pars were among the most in the field.
• Peng pushed the Rams into the Atlantic 10 Championship
and earned Most Outstanding Rookie Performance and
All-Conference Honors.
“My game felt great and I thought I played great,” Perico
said. “I rolled it great, but I kept misreading the greens. My
(putting) mechanics were good and my speed was good. I hit
the ball incredible, but I missed eight putts inside eight feet
today.” YUKIE SASAKI
OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
Perico led the Razorbacks in scoring average (71.34), birdies
(126), top-5 finishes (3) and low rounds (16) this season.
He won Alabama’s Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate last
fall, shooting a school-record 197, and tallied a team-best five
top 10’s. In addition, 34 of his 38 rounds this season counted
toward the team total, he posted the low round a team-best
16 times and was the team’s highest finisher a team-best five
times, including the SEC Championship and NCAA Regional.
IAN PENG
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH
UNIVERSITY RAMS
Freshman Ian Peng
capped his outstanding
rookie season with a
blistering final round
to lead VCU in NCAA
Regional play.
• Peng, an individual
runner-up for VCU
at the Atlantic 10
Championship, fired
a final-round 68 to
place 14th. Peng’s
finish is the highest by a Ram in NCAA play since 2010.
• Peng recorded six birdies and weathered a double
bogey on 15 to climb 12 spots on the leaderboard. His
14th-place finish is the highest ever by a VCU freshman
at an NCAA Regional.
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THE GATE | JUNE 2019
BGGA Alumni Yuki Sasaki
earned OSU Scholar-
Athlete in 2019! Highlights
of her 2018-2019 season
include:
• Ohio State women’s
golf team won the 18th
Big Ten championship
in program history,
tallying a season-best
final-round 281 at TPC
River’s Ben.
• One of two Buckeyes to compete in all 12 events.
• Tied for the team high with 34 rounds played, 26.5
counting toward the team tally.
• Third on the team with a 75.1 scoring average, totaling
four rounds under-par, including one in the 60’s, and two
at even-par.
• Posted three Top 25 finishes.
• Tied for 23rd with a 5-over 149 in the stroke-play portion
of the East & West Match Play (Sept. 16-18).
• Tied for 26th at the Northrop Grumman Regional
Challenge (Feb. 3-5) with a 10-over 223, including a
1-under 70 in the final round.
• Notched the best Ohio State finish and the best of her
career, a tie for 14th, with a 2-over 218 at the Bryan
National Collegiate (March 29-31).
• Tied for 15th at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional (May 6-8),
tallying a career-low 3-under 69 in the opening round, on
her way to a 1-over 217.