Cougars to Wrap Up Fall Campaign in Hawai'i

Mon, Oct 21, 2024

SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The Cal State San Marcos men's golf team will conclude its fall season this week in Hawaii by competing in the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate on Oct. 21-22 and Hawai'i Hilo's Southwest Airlines Hawaii Pacific Shark Shootout on Oct. 25-26.

LAST TIME OUT

The Cougars tied for eighth place at the Otter Invitational on Oct. 14-15.
CSUSM shot a team score of 33-over 897.
Jason McElroy shot up 25 spots on the leaderboard to be CSUSM's top finisher with a 3-over 219 for a share of 17th place.

TOURNAMENT 3 \| DENNIS ROSE INTERCOLLEGIATE
Dates	Monday, Oct. 21 - Tuesday, Oct. 26
Tee Time	10:30 a.m. PDT (shotgun)
Location	Kohala Coast, Hawai'i
Course	Mauna Lani North Golf Course (Par 72 / 6,913)
Live Scoring	GolfStat
CSUSM Team	Jason McElroy Patrick Jaksch Greg Mouser Nick Mouser Gavin McCormick
Participating Teams	Chaminade, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal State San Marcos, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii Pacific, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Simon Fraser, Sonoma State, Stanislaus State, Vanguard, Western New Mexico, Western Washington, Westminster

DENNIS ROSE INTERCOLLEGIATE

This is CSUSM's third appearance in the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate.
This marks the 19th time UHH will host the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate on the men's side.
The Cougars placed third out of 17 teams with Patrick Jaksch tying for 10th with a 2-under 142.

TOURNAMENT 4 \| SOUTHWEST AIRLINES HPU SHARK SHOOTOUT
Dates	Friday, Oct. 25 - Saturday, Oct. 26
Tee Time	TBA (shotgun)
Location	Waikola Beach Resort, Hawaii
Course	Waikoloa, Hawaii
Live Scoring	Clippd
CSUSM Team	TBD
Participating Teams	Chaminade, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal State San Marcos, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii Pacific, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Simon Fraser, Sonoma State, Stanislaus State, Vanguard, Western New Mexico, Western Washington, Westminster

HPU SHARK SHOOTOUT

This is CSUSM's third time competing in the HPU Shark Shootout.
Hawai'i Pacific hosted the inaugural Shark Shootout for the men's golf team in 2021-22 and featured only four universities – Chaminade, Hawai'i Pacific, Hawai'i-Hilo and University of Hawai'i.
The Cougars finished 12th out of 17 teams last season at the HPU Shark Shootout.
Patrick Jaksch was CSUSM's top golfer with a ninth-place finish at 3-under 213.

COUGAR OUTLOOK

With nine returners from the 2023-24 team, this year's squad has only one new face with the addition of Owen Otto.
The 2023-24 team finished in the top 5 in seven of its 11 tournaments last year.
The Cougars saw last season come to an end with a 16th-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.
Hutton has been named CCAA Coach of the Year a total of seven times, six times on the women's side and one time on the men's side.
The CSUSM men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022.
The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
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, 2023 and 2024.
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.