University of Washington
Western Intercollegiate
Men's Golf Preparing For Western Intercollegiate
April 06, 2017 | Men's Golf
The 15-team field will play 36 holes on Saturday, before completing the tournament with an 18-hole final round on Sunday. A live scoring link courtesy of Golfstat will be available here.
Along with the Huskies, the elite competition features 11 additional schools ranked among the top 75 in the latest Golfstat index, including No. 1 USC, No. 7 Stanford, No. 9 Oregon, No. 17 Texas, No. 25 Arizona State, No. 29 Pepperdine, No. 32 San Diego State, No. 58 UTEP, No. 66 UCLA, No. 68 California and No. 72 Arizona. Host San Jose State, Hawai'i and UC Irvine round out the field.
The Western Intercollegiate is a six-count-five event, with senior Corey Pereira, freshman Henry Lee, sophomore Carl Yuan, junior Frank Garber, senior Kevin Kwon and freshman Daniel List comprising head coach Alan Murray's lineup card.
Last season, Washington took sixth in the Western Intercollegiate with a combined score of 1068 (+18) after a strong finish. Pereira is the team's top returner from last year's tournament after leading the Huskies with a third place finish at 3-under.
Washington is coming off a fifth-place performance in its last outing at The Goodwin, where it posted a 20-over 860. Individually, the Huskies were paced by Pereira and Garber who both recorded top-15 finishes. Pereira shot a 3-over 73 in his final round to finish in a tie for eighth-place (66-72-73) while Garber finished the three-day tournament tied for 13th (69-71-74).
Yuan tops the Huskies with a 71.10 scoring average so far this season while Pereira has been the squad's top finisher in four events, including earning his fourth career win, claiming medalist honors at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate.
The Western Intercollegiate was established in 1947 and is the oldest running men's college golf tournament west of the Mississippi River. Conner Robbins is the most recent Washington individual champion at the event, capturing medalist honors in 2002.
Bolstered by Maverick McNealy's medal-winning effort of 16-under 194, Stanford (-9) captured the team title by 10 strokes over second-place USC (+1) at last year's event, while Oregon (+9), California (+12) and Pepperdine (+15) rounded out the top five. McNealy returns to defend his crown.
Following this weekend's tournament, the Huskies will have 18 days to prepare for the Pac-12 Conference Championship, slated for April 28-30, at Boulder Country Club in Boulder, Colo.
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