CSUSM Tees Off At West/South Central Super Regionals on Thursday

Wed, May 8, 2024

SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The RV Cal State San Marcos men's golf team will make its fourth appearance in the NCAA West/South Central Super Regionals this week in Las Cruces, New Mexico on New Mexico State University Course on May 9-11.

LAST TIME OUT

The Cougars took third place at the CCAA Championships on April 24.
Patrick Jaksch was CSUSM's top golfer with a share of seventh place after carding a 4-under 212.

TOURNAMENT 11 \| WEST / SOUTH CENTRAL SUPER REGIONALS
Dates	Thursday, May 9 - Saturday, May 11
Tee Time	Tee times starting at 7:30 a.m.
Location	Las Cruces, New Mexico
Course	NMSU Golf Course - (par 71, 7,242)
Live Scoring	GolfStat
CSUSM Team	Patrick Jaksch Jason McElroy Arman Rahgozar Gavin McCormick Greg Mouser
Participating Teams	West 1. Cal State Monterey Bay (CCAA Champion) 2. Chico State 3. Cal State East Bay 4. Cal State San Bernardino 5. Cal State San Marcos 6. Stanislaus State 7. Sonoma State 8. Simon Fraser 9. Hawaii Hilo (PacWest Champion) 10. Western Washignton (GNAC Champion) South Central 1. Colorado Christian (RMAC Champion) 2. Oklahoma Christian 3. Dallas Baptist (Lone Star Champion) 4. Texas Permian Basin 5. Colorado State Pueblo 6. Midwestern State 7. West Texas A&M 8. Colorado Mesa 9. Western New Mexico 10. Texas at Tyler
Participating Individuals	West 1. Francis Bautista, CSUDH 2. Shion Suzuki, HPU 3. Giulio Zanichelli, ART U 4. Grayson Givoney, NNU South Central 1. Rudy Stautron, Cameron 2. Lukas Taggarrt, Colorado School of Mines 3. Chandler Cooke, Arkansas-Fort Smith 4. Ronald Kildall III, Fort Lewis

WEST / SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONALS

Western New Mexico is the host for this year's NCAA West / South Central Super Regional.
After finishing with identical 3-over 867 scores, Sonoma State won a cardoff over Western Washington to win the 2023 NCAA Division II West/South Central Super Regional Title after the sudden death playoff was called off due to darkness after two two holes were played.
Posting identical 68s in all three rounds, former Sonoma State Seawolf Griffin Pace was crowned the West/South Central Regional Champion with a 12-under 204.
The Cougars finished 18th last season with Jason McElroy being CSUSM's top golfer with a share of 19th place after carding a 1-over 217 (71-76-70).
The top five teams from the West/South Central Super Regional and top two individuals not on an advancing team qualify to compete in the NCAA Division II Championships from May 21-25 in Winter Garden, Florida.

COUGAR OUTLOOK

With five returners from the 2022-23 team, this year's squad has three new faces with the addition of Aiden Canada, Gavin McCormick and Nick Mouser.
The 2022-23 team won five tournaments last season, including making program history with a CCAA Championship Tournament victory.
The Cougars saw last season come to an end with an 18th-place finish in the NCAA West/South Central Regional Championship.

THE HUTTON FILE

Head coach Greg Hutton has been at the helm of the men's program since the 2010-11 season and was named the women's head coach in 2014.
In his 13 years as the Cougar men's coach and nine years as the Cougar women's coach, Hutton has led CSUSM to 56 tournament victories (32 women/24 men).
The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
The CSUSM men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022.
In 2023, the CSUSM men's team captured its first-ever CCAA Championship Tournament Title, defeating runner-up Cal State Monterey by one stroke on April 19 at the Victory Club in Riverside.
Under Hutton's leadership, the women's team won CSUSM's first CCAA Championship in school history in 2018 and the Cougars defended their title in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
In CSUSM's first year of being a full-fledged NCAA Division II member in 2017-18, the Cougar men's and women's golf teams each qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships.