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About the Men’s Finalists
Jack Paton
University of Oregon
Redshirt Sophomore, 6’ 5:
2009-10: Spring 2010: Fifth on the team, tied for 46th overall at the Pac-10 Championships (scorecard) with an 8-over 292 (71-77-70-74) ... Career-best runner-up finish, including a career-low 65 at the Western Intercollegiate (scorecard), helping UO to the team title with a 5-under 205 (69-71-65) ... Tied for 70th at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational (scorecard) at 9-over 222 (73-74-75)...Played as an individual at the Duck Invitational, shooting 9-over 225 (73-79-73) to tie for 44th…Competed as an individual at the Mauna Lani Invitational, tying for 72nd at 15-over (81-78-72-231), bouncing back from a rough start with an even-par final round (scorecard)...Fall 2009: Oregon’s No. 4 golfer with a 71.0 scoring average. In his varsity debut, took second at the Giustina Memorial Classic, shooting an 8-under 208 that was just one stroke out of first place…Rounds were 69-70-69…Followed that with a tie for 35th at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational (69-74-143)...Tied for 34th at the Del Walker Intercollegiate (69-73-71-213)...Tied for 33rd at the Pacific Invitational (69-70-78-217).
2008-09: Competed as an individual in the Oregon Duck Invitational, his first and only tournament of the season, and tied for 12th at 220 (70-74-76)...Won the Antioch City Amateur and also golfed with Fred Couples during the summer of 2009.
2007-08: Redshirt season
Paul Peterson
Oregon State University
Senior
AMATEUR/JUNIOR GOLF: Won the 2009 Oregon Men’s Stroke Play Championship. Was runner-up in the 2007 Oregon Men’s Stroke Play Championship. Won the 2005 Oregon Junior Stroke Play Championship ... Was runner-up at the 2005 Oregon Junior Amateur Championship to Jack Dukeminier (also played at Willamette Valley) as well as runner-up at the 2006 Oregon Junior Amateur Championship to Robbie Ziegler. (Ziegler and Dukeminier currently play for the University of Oregon) ... Took second at the 2005 Peter Jacobsen Junior Challenge… Was part of Oregon’s 2005 Junior America’s Cup team that tied for first ... Was a member of Oregon’s 2005 Hogan Cup team as well.
OSU 2009-10: Posted third-lowest scoring average for the Beavers at 72.63, which ties for the ninth-best single season scoring average in Oregon State history ... Played in 10 out of 14 tournaments ... Best round of the season came at the U.S. Intercollegiate when he fired a second round 3-under 67 ... Best finish of the season was a tie for 14th at the 2009 Giustina Memorial Classic (+1, 217) ... Finished tied for 19th at the Battle at the Beach (E, 213) ... Finished tied for 16th at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational (+4, 217).
OSU 2008-09: Led the Beavers in scoring average with a mark of 71.85 which places him third on Oregon State’s all-time individual single-season scoring average list ... Has a career scoring average of 73.31 which places him fourth on the career scoring average list ... Played in all but one of the 12 tournaments this season ... Named to the All-Pac-10 Second Team ... Finished tied for sixth at the Pac-10 Men’s Golf Championship (-3, 285) which is the best finish by any Oregon State golfer since 2003 ... Best finishes were a third place finish at the Giustina Memorial Classic (-4, 212) and a tie for third at San Francisco Intercollegiate (+1, 214) ... Lowest round was a 67 in the final round of the San Francisco Intercollegiate ... Finished t26th at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate (+5, 221) ... Finished seventh at the Oregon Duck Invitational (+2, 218) ... Finished tied for 15th at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic (E, 210) ... Finished tied for 13th at the U.S. Intercollegiate (-3, 207) ... Finished in the top-10 in five out of 11 tournaments.
OSU 2007-08: Played in two of four fall tournaments in his second season at OSU ... Best finish was a tie for 18th at the Giustina Memorial (E 216) where he had the second round low of 67 ... Ended the fall with a season scoring average of 75.33 ... Played in six tournaments during the spring season ... Best finish was at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic where he finished tied for second (-7 203) ... Lowest round was in the second round at both the Giustina Memorial and at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic (67).
OSU 2006-07: Saw action in four tournaments as a true freshman ... Had a stroke average of 74.08 ... Took ninth place at the Washington National Winter Championships (+5 221) ... Tied for 23rd in his debut at the Northwest Collegiate Classic (+7 223) ... Tied for 34th at the Pac-10 Championships (+6 294) ... Shot a 4-under 68 in the third round at Pac-10s.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Sprague High School in Salem, Ore., in 2006 ... Played four years on the varsity ... Two-time district champion ... Had 10 wins as a junior and senior ... A three-time all-state honoree
