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Oklahoma Christian University’s national golf champion Oscar Stark was one of the five golfers nationwide to recieve the 2011 Jack Nicklaus Award on Wednesday. Stark was the 2011 Golf Coaches Association of America Collegiate Player of the Year for the NAIA.
Nicklaus personally presented Stark with the award at a ceremony during the final round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, which is just outside of Nicklaus’ hometown of Columbus.
Nicklaus, a former Big Ten and NCAA champion at The Ohio State University helped inspire and found the Jack Nicklaus Award in1988.
Stark is a senior finance major at Oklahoma Christian. He won the NAIA’s individual championship this year and led the Eagles to the program’s second team national title.
He also earned the Arnold Palmer Award and was named a PING First-Team All-America selection for the third straight year.
Additionally, Stark earned his second NAIA Scholar-Athlete award after maintaining a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.
He recorded eight top 10 finishes in 10 events this season including two wins — the Texoma Championship and UST Mamiya Championship — in addition to earning NAIA national medalist honors.
Stark is the only individual champion in OC golf history and joins teammates Axel Ochoa and Preston Wilkins as the only student-athletes in school history to be members of two national championship teams.
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