Jan. 30, 2011
SDSU Tournament Notes at Arizona Invite in PDF Format
SDSU Men's Golf`s Spring Schedule Starts In Arizona
The San Diego State men's golf team finally returns to action after a three and a half month break, when it travels to the 15-school Arizona Invitational, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, in Tucson, Ariz. The Aztecs will play 54 holes at the par-71, 6,793-yard Arizona National Golf Club with two rounds on Monday and the final 18 on Tuesday. Both days begin at 8 a.m. MST with a shotgun start.
Among SDSU's opponents this week are fellow Mountain West Conference squads BYU, New Mexico, UNLV and Utah. Host Arizona, which will field both an `A' and a `B' team, will be joined by defending tournament champions Cal, as well as Fresno State, Hartford, Pacific, Pepperdine, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UTEP and UTSA.
The Aztecs last played in mid-October 2010, finishing up a phenomenal fall campaign with a runner-up performance at the Alister Mackenzie Invitational in the Bay Area. SDSU ended up in the top three at each of its fall events, winning once, en route to a final national ranking of 14th by Golfweek/Sagarin and 16th by golfstat.com.
This week's Arizona Invite features live scoring on golfstat.com for all three rounds, while daily recaps and results will be available on goaztecs.com.
Aztec Line-Up For This Week
San Diego State head coach Ryan Donovan will take five golfers with him to Arizona this week, including a senior, three juniors, and a freshman. Johan Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Alex Kang (Oak Park, Calif.), J.J. Spaun (San Dimas, Calif.), Todd Baek (Auckland, New Zealand) and Colin Featherstone (Fallbrook, Calif.) will all make the trip. Three of the five played in all three fall tournaments, while the other two each competed in two events.
Kang finished the 2010 fall slate ranked third nationally in the Golfstat.com Cup standings, while Featherstone was sixth as both posted sub-70.0 stroke averages. Baek also cracked the top 40, coming in 37th following his first semester at the collegiate level.