SAN MARCOS, Calif. –  The Cal State San Marcos men's golf team will travel to Northern California this week to compete in Cal State East Bay's Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout on Monday and Tuesday. 

LAST TIME OUT

• Patrick Jaksch won his first tournament as a Cougar at the NNU Nighthawk Invitational. 
• As a team, CSUSM took third place with a two-round total of 6-over 582.
   

GOLFER OF THE WEEK

• Patrick Jaksch shot a 7-under 137 to win his first tournament as a Cougar. He was the only golfer to shoot two under 70 rounds and won the event by five strokes after Cal State East Bay pair Adam Brangefalt and Cooper Groshart, who both shot 2-under.
• Jaksch scored a tournament-best 10 birdies over 36 holes. The junior from Vista also had 34 pars. In the second round, Jaksch went up to the No. 18 tee with a six-under before a double-bogey on the final hole. 
• This was Jaksch's first tournament victory as a Cougar. His previous best placement finish as a Cougar was 22nd at the Chico State Wildcat Classic (Oct. 10-11, 2023).

CSUEB TIM TIERNEY PIONEER SHOOTOUT

• This is the fifth time CSUSM will be competing in the Pioneer Shootout. 
• The Cougars won last season's Pioneer Shootout after extremely high winds in Alameda canceled the third round.
• CSUSM had a three-stroke lead entering the final round after carding a 10-under 566 (282-284) in the first two rounds played on Monday. 
• Greg Mouser was named to the All-Tournament team after finishing in a three-way tie for first place. 
• In their first appearance at the Pioneer Shootout in 2018, the Cougars had their most successful finish with sixth place out of 17 teams. 

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.