ELMSFORD, N.Y. (May 27, 2014) - Seven-time MGA Champion Cameron Wilson of Rowayton, Conn. won the NCAA Division I Individual Title at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson, Kansas, on Monday. The Stanford senior won after making a birdie on the third playoff hole against Georgia Tech's Ollie Schniederjans.

Wilson shot a 63 in the second round of the tournament on Saturday, recording the second best NCAA score ever by a Stanford Cardinal. In the final round, he missed a par on the 54th hole that would have earned him the trophy and moved on to the playoff. After both Wilson and Schniederjans made pars on the first two playoff holes, it was Cameron that sunk an 8-foot birdie putt to take medalist honors. This is Wilson's third individual title this season.

The team competition transitions into match play on Tuesday - Stanford finished the stroke-play portion of the tournament as the top team, nine strokes ahead of LSU and Alabama. The top eight teams will duel it out for the next two days in match play to determine the overall winner.

With this win, the 2009 MGA Player of the Year and 2013 & '12 Ike Champion is the third Stanford Cardinal to win - Tiger Woods won in 1996 and Sandy Tatum in 1942. Wilson is only the third left-handed player to win the title, adding his name to list with past champs Scott Langley in 2010 and three-time winner Phil Mickelson in 1992, 1990, and 1989.

One of the best Met Area amateurs, Wilson has his name scattered throughout records since he was a junior golfer. He was the MGA Player of the Year in 2009, the same year that he won the Met Am and Carter Cup. Last year he finished as the runner-up in the Met Open and the Westchester Open. Nationally, he was T-5th at the 2013 Northeast Am and 5th at the Sunnehanna Am. He finished fourth when he traveled to Australia for the Australian Master of the Amateurs in January of 2014.

Wilson is currently the fifth-ranked amateur golfer in the world. The next event on his schedule is the U.S. Sectional Qualifying Round on June 2. He was the medalist in 2012's Sectional and played at the Olympic Club.

While there hasn't been a Met Area player to win the NCAA in very recent years, there have been a number of past Met Area players who have won. New Jersey native and U.S. Amateur champion George Dunlop won twice for Princeton in the 1930s; another Princeton grad Percy Pyne of New York had won in 1899. Jesse Sweester of Yale won in 1920 when the tournament was held at Nassau Country Club, he won the Met Am in 1922 and 1925. Former Long Island Golf Association Executive Director Steve Smith, also a Stanford golfer, defeated Jack Nicklaus in the NCAA Quarterfinals in 1960, but ended up falling in the final match.