HALL OF FAME
2001 GOLF SCORE CARD
// TIM DONOVAN JR. LED XAVIER GOLF TO AN A-10 TITLE AND ITS FIRST NCAA APPEARANCE. — T A B A R I M c C O Y HE SCENE, FOUND IN THE SEMINAL GOLF COMEDY CADDYSHACK, is well known: The Bishop is having the best round of golf of his life “in the zone,” only to miss a putt and be struck by lightning. Fortunately for the Xavier Musketeers men’s golf team, the weekend of April 2001 not only saw senior co-captain Timothy Donovan Jr. (pictured) play the best three rounds of golf of his life, but it guaranteed the team’s first NCAA Tournament berth, too. And no lightning struck. Donovan and his teammates set several records at Penn National Golf Club on the way to winning the 2001 Atlantic 10 Championship. His performance that weekend, however, was one for the ages—which is why the scorecard documenting his achievement sits on display in the P. Douglas O’Keefe Athletics Hall of Fame on the west concourse of Cintas Center. A two-time Academic All American, Donovan turned in rounds of 67–64–66, his
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197 total coming in at a recordbreaking 19 under par. Donovan says the second round—which saw him make five birdies in a row—was when he knew Xavier had a chance to do something special. “It was the first year that we played at that course, so it was sort of a new beginning for all of us,” Donovan, 37, says. Despite his individual achievement—which he admits he checks on during tournament season— Donovan says sharing the championship with his teammates remains his favorite thing about the weekend. “We were standing on the last tee box and the outcome, it was decided,” he says. “We all knew that in the back of our minds, but all five of us kind of stayed in the moment until that very last hole, realizing we had accomplished [a feat] for the fi rst time in Xavier golf history.”
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