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Blaum Finishes Tied For Fifth At 31st Annual Western Refining College Golf All-America Classic
Duke senior Ryan Blaum fired a 67-69-70=206 (-7) to finished tied for fifth with Kyle Reifers (Wake Forest) at the 31st Annual Western Refining College All-America Golf Classic, held at the 6,817-yard, par-71 El Paso Country Club. Vanderbilt’s Luke List won the tournament with a 13-under (200).
Blaum was one of just seven players to post three rounds of under-par golf in the tournament. As a field, 22 players were under par for 54 holes, one shy of the record of 23 players who finished under par in 2003. In all, the field averaged 70.37 strokes per round. The 2003 field averaged 69.92 strokes per round.
Duke's Nathan Smith shot a two-over 215 (70-74-71) in the event to finish 25th overall.
List, who led by two strokes with one hole to play, made things interesting on the final hole. Georgia’s Chris Kirk pared the 18th, while List three-putted for bogey, allowing Kirk to pull within one. The Vanderbilt junior fired rounds of 67, 65, 68 to finish with a 54-hole total of 200 (14-under). It is the third lowest total in tournament history, behind Arizona’s Ricky Barnes and Chris Nallen. Barnes and Nallen each carded 196 (17-under) totals in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
List became the eighth wire-to-wire winner and the first since Arizona’s Chris Nallen (2003). Vanderbilt becomes the 20th school in the 31 years of the event to have a player win the tournament title. List is just the second SEC player to win the event, joining inaugural champion Jerry Pate of Alabama, who won the event in 1974.
Each university is awarded a $1,000 scholarship if a golfer from that school competes in the tournament.
