Northwestern University Athletics
David Lipsky Named Division I PING All-America Selection
6/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
June 23, 2011
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern senior David Lipsky (La Canada, Calif./La Canada) has been named a Division I PING All-America honorable mention selection, announced today (June 23) by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
Lipsky is the 11th All-American in Northwestern's program history and the first since Tom Johnson was an honorable mention choice in 2003.
With seven top-20 finishes, four top-10s and 17 rounds at par or better out of his 36 this year, Lipsky was consistently NU's top performer in tournaments. He concluded the season with a 72.02 stroke average, the seventh-best total in program history. His 72.97 career stroke average in fourth-best all-time for the Wildcats.
At the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in October, Lipsky made a charge for the ages when he played his final four holes in five-under par with a birdie-birdie-birdie-eagle finish, holing a 30-foot putt on the 54th hole of play to card a career-best 66 and tie for medalist honors. His 14-under 202 tied the school record for lowest 54-hole tournament score set by Luke Donald at the 2001 U.S. Collegiate Championships.
Lipsky nearly repeated that feat at the 2011 Big Ten Championships. After struggling to an opening-round 78, Lipsky rebounded for back-to-back 72s to put himself in the top-10 entering the final round, six shots off the lead. In that final round, Lipsky shot himself out of a cannon, getting to 5-under and within a stroke of the lead through 10 holes before carding a 67 and a third-place result. At the NCAA Colorado Regional, Lipsky repeated his late-round heroics with back-to-back 4-under 68s in the final two rounds. With NU five shots out of the fifth and final NCAA Championships qualifying spot with nine holes to play, Lipsky promptly birdied each of his first four holes on the final nine to jump-start NU's team charge into a qualification spot at the NCAA Championships.
At the National Championships, Lipsky finished 38th as an individual in his final collegiate tournament. For his career, Lipsky was a three-time All-Big Ten and GCAA PING All-Region performer.
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