Oct. 26, 2004
BANDON, Ore. -- Arizona State junior Alejandro Canizares took home the individual title at the Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge with a 2-under 142 (71-71) as the 2003 NCAA champion earned his fourth collegiate victory in his three-year career on Tuesday afternoon.
In addition to the 2003 NCAA title, Canizares also won the 2003 National Invitational in Tucson and the 2004 ASU/Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe. His four career wins ties him with Howard Twitty, Scott Watkins and Dan Croonquist for sixth on the Sun Devil career win list.
No. 20 Minnesota shot a 4-over 292 to come back from 13 strokes off the pace and win the inaugural Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge in a tie-breaker over No. 10 USC at the par-72, 7,040-yard course.
Tuesday's second and final round was completed in passing showers and sun breaks, with light winds that occasionally gusted, especially along Bandon's ocean side holes. The tournament was shortened from three rounds to two due to Mondays storm that forced the second round to be suspended after five holes.
In the conference challenge, the Pac-10 won the inaugural event with a combined score of plus-162 to the Big Ten's plus-191. Each conference counted its low six scores of each round to determine the challenge winner.
No. 19 UCLA, which led by five strokes after the first round, shot a 307 Tuesday and finished third at 598. No. 17 Arizona State was fourth at 601, followed by Northwestern (602), Washington (603), Arizona (605), Penn State (607), No. 21 Purdue (609) and Indiana (611) to round out the top 10.
The 2005 Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge will be held at the Glen Club in Glenview, Ill., and the 2006 event will return to Bandon and will be played on the Pacific Dunes course.
Complete results are available at www.goducks.com.
Top Teams T1. Minnesota 304-292=596 T1. USC 298-298=596 3. UCLA 291-307=598 4. ASU 296-305=601 5. Northwestern 298-304=602
ASU Scores 1. Alejandro Canizares 71-71=142 (-2) T18. Pat Moore 73-78=151 (+7) T28. Jesse Mueller 76-77=153 (+9) T45. Niklas Lemke 76-80=156 (+12) T55. Kendall Critchfield 80-79=159 (+15)