April 11, 2010
SAN DIEGO - The No. 33 San Diego State men's golf team will once again travel to one of the nation's elite tournaments beginning Sunday morning, as the Aztecs take part in the U.S. Intercollegiate at the par-70, 6,727-yard Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif. The 54-hole, three-day event is in its 42nd year.
The field includes many of the same teams SDSU saw a week ago, including nine Pac-10 schools and nine of the nation's top 40 squads.
Aztec head coach Ryan Donovan will take five golfers with him to the Bay Area, including junior Johan Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), sophomores Andrew Cooley (New Haw, England), J.J. Spaun (San Dimas, Calif.) and Alex Kang (Oak Park, Calif.) and freshman Tom Berry (New Haw, England). The same five golfers helped the team to an eighth-place finish at the Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe, Ariz., last weekend, higlighted by Spaun's first career victory.
The Aztecs last competed at the U.S. Intercollegiate in 2008, taking seventh overall with Carlsson placing 35th.
SDSU has won two team titles and three individual trophies during the tournament's previous 41 years. The Aztecs finished first in both 1977 and 1978, while Gary Simoni (1977), Lenny Clements (1979) and most recently, Mark Warman (2003), earned medalist honors. Warman logged a school record round of 62 en route to his first career title.
Other previous U.S. Intercollegiate winners include Tom Watson (1971), Corey Pavin (1982), Bill Mayfair (1987), Casey Martin (1995) and Joel Kriebel (1996-97).
The tournament will feature live scoring on goaztecs.com, as well as golfstat.com. Sunday and Monday's rounds will each start with tee times at 9 a.m. PT, while Tuesday's final 18 gets underway with a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m.