Thought I'd start this consolidated pre- and regular-season thread now, as the team has released their schedule for the 2019/20 academic year.
Although the "real" NCAA and Pac 12 Championship season is in the spring, they compete in the same number of tournaments (not including post season) in the fall. I plan on us using this thread for all men's golf news and results until the Pac 12 championships get their own thread; they are scheduled for April 27-29 in Seattle.
Best wishes to the team for a great year!
Article on the schedule -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2019/8/8/cu-announces-2019-20-mens-golf-schedule.aspx
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By: Curtis Snyder, Assistant AD/Communications
Release: August 08, 2019
BOULDER — The University of Colorado and men's head golf coach Roy Edwards announced the team's 2019-20 schedule Wednesday, and it features many familiar annual tournaments along with a couple of first-time affairs.
The Buffaloes are coming off what Edwards would call a transitional year, as several newcomers got their first consistent and extended competition; the team had lost three seniors who had played in almost all of CU's events over the previous two and three seasons. The end result was missing out on a berth into the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2012.
Colorado opens the season, its 107th competing as a varsity sport, once again down Interstate 25 in the Gene Miranda Air Force Falcon Invitational, Sept. 6-8. The Buffs are the defending champions in the event, which will be 16th time the Buffaloes open the fall season in AFA's annual tournament. CU has won the Falcon seven times.
"We want to compete against the best fields on the best courses is our scheduling philosophy," Edwards said. "This coming year's schedule reflects just that. It will provide a strong competitive challenge to the team, as will the goal of getting back to the NCAA's. We just missed last year after earning a bid six years in a row, and was want to rectify that. We're all looking forward to getting started at Air Force in September."
Next up will be the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in Scottsdale, Ariz., the first time Colorado will compete in the popular desert event (Sept. 13-15). Two weeks later, CU will participate in the New Mexico Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque (Sept. 27-28), as the Buffaloes, host New Mexico and New Mexico State are the only schools to have played in the previous 63 Tuckers.
The Buffaloes will host two tournaments in October, first the 10th annual Mark Simpson-CU Invitational at their home course, Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, on Oct. 7-8. The event honors Simpson, who coached the team for 29 years, from 1977 until his death in 2005. CU will be gunning for its seventh-straight win in its own tourney.
The fall schedule will conclude with the inaugural Les Fowler Invitational, a one-day, 36-hole event that will feature mostly Front Range schools on Oct. 21.
Colorado is scheduled to open its spring season for the 15th straight year on Hawaii's Big Island in the Amer Ari Invitational (Feb. 6-8); that follows an annual Alumni Match in Scottsdale in January at the Papago Golf Course. The Buffs finished 14th a year ago in Hawai'i, and with it being the first competition out of the gate every spring and it also being one of the strongest fields annually, CU has bounced around with its finishes, with its best showing a tie for fourth in 2017.
Five tournaments follow ahead of the Pac-12 Championships, set for April 27-29 in Seattle: The Troon Cup in Palm Desert, Calif. (Feb. 18, a match play event against an opponent to be determined); Wyoming's (Palm) Desert Intercollegiate (Feb. 21-23), the Lamkin San Diego Classic (March 9-10), Arizona's National Invitational Tournament in Tucson (March 16-17), Stanford's "The Goodwin" in Palo Alto (Mar. 26-28) and Wyoming's Cowboy Classic in Chandler, Ariz. (April 6-7). CU has played in all previously other than the Troon Cup.
The NCAA regionals are set for May 18-20 at six different sites: Auburn, Ala.; Baton Rouge, La.; Clemson, S.C.; East Lansing, Mich.; Norman, Okla.; and San Diego, Calif. Those six regionals will each send five teams on to the NCAA Championship Finals, which are set for May 29-June 3 in Scottsdale, Ariz., where Arizona State will host the meet at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Individuals who are not on the travel squad or who bounce back-and-forth will also play in some select other tournaments as long as they are within their competition day maximums to do so.
Although the "real" NCAA and Pac 12 Championship season is in the spring, they compete in the same number of tournaments (not including post season) in the fall. I plan on us using this thread for all men's golf news and results until the Pac 12 championships get their own thread; they are scheduled for April 27-29 in Seattle.
Best wishes to the team for a great year!
Article on the schedule -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2019/8/8/cu-announces-2019-20-mens-golf-schedule.aspx
"
By: Curtis Snyder, Assistant AD/Communications
Release: August 08, 2019
BOULDER — The University of Colorado and men's head golf coach Roy Edwards announced the team's 2019-20 schedule Wednesday, and it features many familiar annual tournaments along with a couple of first-time affairs.
The Buffaloes are coming off what Edwards would call a transitional year, as several newcomers got their first consistent and extended competition; the team had lost three seniors who had played in almost all of CU's events over the previous two and three seasons. The end result was missing out on a berth into the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2012.
Colorado opens the season, its 107th competing as a varsity sport, once again down Interstate 25 in the Gene Miranda Air Force Falcon Invitational, Sept. 6-8. The Buffs are the defending champions in the event, which will be 16th time the Buffaloes open the fall season in AFA's annual tournament. CU has won the Falcon seven times.
"We want to compete against the best fields on the best courses is our scheduling philosophy," Edwards said. "This coming year's schedule reflects just that. It will provide a strong competitive challenge to the team, as will the goal of getting back to the NCAA's. We just missed last year after earning a bid six years in a row, and was want to rectify that. We're all looking forward to getting started at Air Force in September."
Next up will be the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in Scottsdale, Ariz., the first time Colorado will compete in the popular desert event (Sept. 13-15). Two weeks later, CU will participate in the New Mexico Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque (Sept. 27-28), as the Buffaloes, host New Mexico and New Mexico State are the only schools to have played in the previous 63 Tuckers.
The Buffaloes will host two tournaments in October, first the 10th annual Mark Simpson-CU Invitational at their home course, Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, on Oct. 7-8. The event honors Simpson, who coached the team for 29 years, from 1977 until his death in 2005. CU will be gunning for its seventh-straight win in its own tourney.
The fall schedule will conclude with the inaugural Les Fowler Invitational, a one-day, 36-hole event that will feature mostly Front Range schools on Oct. 21.
Colorado is scheduled to open its spring season for the 15th straight year on Hawaii's Big Island in the Amer Ari Invitational (Feb. 6-8); that follows an annual Alumni Match in Scottsdale in January at the Papago Golf Course. The Buffs finished 14th a year ago in Hawai'i, and with it being the first competition out of the gate every spring and it also being one of the strongest fields annually, CU has bounced around with its finishes, with its best showing a tie for fourth in 2017.
Five tournaments follow ahead of the Pac-12 Championships, set for April 27-29 in Seattle: The Troon Cup in Palm Desert, Calif. (Feb. 18, a match play event against an opponent to be determined); Wyoming's (Palm) Desert Intercollegiate (Feb. 21-23), the Lamkin San Diego Classic (March 9-10), Arizona's National Invitational Tournament in Tucson (March 16-17), Stanford's "The Goodwin" in Palo Alto (Mar. 26-28) and Wyoming's Cowboy Classic in Chandler, Ariz. (April 6-7). CU has played in all previously other than the Troon Cup.
The NCAA regionals are set for May 18-20 at six different sites: Auburn, Ala.; Baton Rouge, La.; Clemson, S.C.; East Lansing, Mich.; Norman, Okla.; and San Diego, Calif. Those six regionals will each send five teams on to the NCAA Championship Finals, which are set for May 29-June 3 in Scottsdale, Ariz., where Arizona State will host the meet at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Individuals who are not on the travel squad or who bounce back-and-forth will also play in some select other tournaments as long as they are within their competition day maximums to do so.