As a freshman in 2016,played on Oregon's NCAA Championship team. As a sophomore in 2017, Yi helped the UO men's golf team get back to the tournament's match-play final.All Yi has known in his career is playing for championships. He'd like for that trend to continue this spring.Yi and the Ducks will look to get back to the national tournament when they begin play Monday in the NCAA Stockton Regional. The No. 5 seed in the 14-team field, Oregon will look to finish among the top five teams in Stockton when play concludes Wednesday, thus advancing to the NCAA Championship tournament beginning May 25 in Stillwater, Okla.Now a junior, Yi is one of three returning Ducks who played their way to last season's national final. He's the only remaining holdover from the 2016 team that made its unforgettable run to the national championship in extra holes at Eugene Country Club."I'm the oldest one now, so I feel like I need to carry over my experience to the team," Yi said Friday after wrapping up a practice round at Shadow Hills Country Club in Junction City. "What I can tell them is just to be themselves. Golf is golf; we've all played so much golf. If they can just play a regular game of golf, we'll be fine. Way easier said than done, but I think we'll be good."As was the case with, the 2016 individual NCAA champion, and thenin 2017, Yi is looking to complement the efforts of an elite individual player. Sophomorewon three straight tournaments earlier this spring, and is making this postseason his collegiate swan song before joining the professional ranks."I'm very motivated and anxious to see how it goes," said Xiong, who brings a season scoring average of 68.9 into the postseason. "Definitely want to end on a good note. Hopefully we make it (to nationals) and play our hearts out, and we all play well as a team."The presence of a star like Xiong on the roster, improbably, can be a double-edged sword at times for the Ducks.On one hand, they have an elite player with a UO-record five wins under his belt this year, seemingly guaranteed to provide a stellar score. On the other, there's pressure on the rest of the roster to complement Xiong as well as possible, and capitalize on his star power."He's done so well, and I think there's a little internal pressure, and we're fighting that," UO head coachsaid. "Instead of just playing free and swinging it, I think there is a little bit of that, for sure."Yi said the rest of the UO postseason roster — also including juniorsand, and freshman— wants to make Xiong's final run with the Ducks a successful one."For him to leave on a good note is what we want to do," Yi said. "He's helped us all year. If we can just play good, solid rounds, we'll be fine. And once he knows we're there for him, I feel he'll play even better."Further fueling the Ducks' competitive fire is the sting of an 11th-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships. Oregon entered the conference tournament riding a string of six straight top-10 finishes, and five straight in the top five. But a year after winning the Pac-12 title, the UO men stumbled home in 11th this spring."I think they're going to respond," Martin said. "No one felt good about that. We just weren't very good that week, but sometimes it can be a good thing to rattle your cage and get refocused."Indeed, Xiong said the Ducks have used the intervening practice sessions to "shift our focus," from technical improvement to "more of a competitive mindset.""We're hoping that we peak at the right time," Martin said. "We have three guys who played for the national championship on this team, and we just gotta get the right mojo. It doesn't take much — a putt here or there — and suddenly they're stalking the course, instead of being stalked."They don't want to be done. They want to go to Oklahoma, for sure. I think they're going to fight."