The team is in the Seattle area to face off against many top Pac 12 teams (6 in the Top 50, with half of those in the Top 20) this Monday through Wednesday at the conference tourney, which has teed off within the last hour or so. The 1st Buff is scheduled to tee off at 8:12 AM PT/ 9:12 AM MT tomorrow morning.
Go Buffs!
Preview - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/4/24/mens-golf-buff-golfers-ready-for-pac-12-championships.aspx
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SAMMAMISH, Wash. — The 62nd Annual Pac-12 Conference men's golf championships, the 10th version with 12 schools, begins here Monday, with the Colorado Buffaloes leading a "youth movement" with three true freshmen of its six players set to compete here.
Overall, despite the extra years of eligibility handed out across the NCAA landscape, 20 of the 72 players competing here are freshmen. The Buffs had five freshmen among the top 24 in the league for the season, including two of the top six in true frosh Justin Biwer (70.59 scoring average, tops among the conference rookies) and Dylan McDermott (72.26, sixth-best). Rounding out the freshmen trio is Frederik Eisenbeis (73.75, 20th-best). Six others schools have two freshmen playing this week: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Southern California and UCLA. With so many first-timers in a conference meet, it could make for a very interesting week.
The three "rookies," all of whom currently own averages among the nine-best by freshmen in school history, will be joined by two fourth-year juniors, Kristoffer Max (72.00 average, second-best on the team) and John Paterson (73.55) and a fourth-year sophomore, Adam Matteson (74.17).
CU head coach Roy Edwards isn't worried about the overall youth of his team.
"The freshmen have been leading us all year, so this won't be anything different than what they've been experiencing. I'm not worried about the freshmen being freshmen anymore," Edwards said. "They've been through the fire and have been a key part of our competitions all year, so it won't be something new for them. As for the veterans, John, Kris and Adam have played some great golf in their careers, and they know and need to be a huge part of us this week for us to be successful. All three have been playing really well, and I expect them to in the Pac-12's."
Biwer, who has led the team in stroke average almost from wire-to-wire, is designated as CU's No. 1 player for the meet, the first freshmen in a conference championship since Jeremy Paul in 2014 and Kane Webber in 2000. McDermott is No. 2, marking the first time freshman have been designated 1-2 most likely ever; they are followed by Max, Eisenbeis, Paterson and Matteson. The only other time three freshmen competed in a league meet was in 2014; prior to joining the Pac-12 in 2012, all previous conference events CU competed his featured five players.
The teams will begin play Monday with 36 holes, followed by 18 each on Tuesday and Wednesday at Aldarra Golf Club, located about 20 miles east of Seattle. Edwards hadn't seen it until the team saw it Saturday and practiced on it Sunday. Aldarra will feature a 6,979-yard, par-71 Aldarra Golf Course layout for the championships.
"I know it's (going to be) a really tough golf course, it's in great condition and should be a great challenge," he said. "It's in a beautiful place with really slopey greens, rolling hills, that sort of terrain. It looks like it's going to be a great championship site, but will take a great course management plan and the execution of that plan to play well. There's a great variety holes, for example a couple of short par-3s and a couple of really long ones, so those are always fun to play."
The Pac-12 has long instituted a 6-for 5 scoring format for its title meet, obviously a reward for those schools with greater depth and a challenge for those without it. It's almost always the only time any of the schools see such a format annually. But Edwards has always prepared his team for such a setup.
"We spend all year playing guys as individuals, so everybody one through six in the lineup has had a lot of tournament experience, so we're definitely ready for the 6-for-5 format, he said. "Everyone's played in the (designated scorer) lineup and if not as individuals. It's important for us to have built that depth through the year and I feel good with where we are at with it."
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Ranked No. 89 and 97 in the two major rankings (GolfStat and Golfweek, respectively), the Buffaloes are a longshot to qualify as a team for the NCAA Championships, short of claiming the Pac-12 title. A player or two could possibly make it as individuals, depending on how they play here.
"From a team standpoint, we've got an opportunity to finish the year out strong," Edwards said. "The league is such that there really are good teams from top to bottom, so if we play well, we'll beat some really good teams and be in the mix to win the tournament. We've kind of been in and out of the mix all year for a regional bid, but we knew we had to play well in our last two events and came up a bit short.
"All we can really do is focus on this week and let everything take care of itself from there."
Six teams are ranked among the nation's top 50 by Golfweek, fewer than usual for what has long been referred to as the nation's top collegiate golf conference. Arizona State leads the way (No. 4), followed by Washington (No. 8), Stanford (No. 20), Arizona (No. 32), Oregon (No. 40) and Utah (No. 49). Cal, UCLA and USC are almost always in the top 50, and the Buffaloes crack the top 50 more often than not through their history.
Live scoring will be available at www.golfstat.com.
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Live Leaderboard - https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=24550
Go Buffs!
Preview - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/4/24/mens-golf-buff-golfers-ready-for-pac-12-championships.aspx
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SAMMAMISH, Wash. — The 62nd Annual Pac-12 Conference men's golf championships, the 10th version with 12 schools, begins here Monday, with the Colorado Buffaloes leading a "youth movement" with three true freshmen of its six players set to compete here.
Overall, despite the extra years of eligibility handed out across the NCAA landscape, 20 of the 72 players competing here are freshmen. The Buffs had five freshmen among the top 24 in the league for the season, including two of the top six in true frosh Justin Biwer (70.59 scoring average, tops among the conference rookies) and Dylan McDermott (72.26, sixth-best). Rounding out the freshmen trio is Frederik Eisenbeis (73.75, 20th-best). Six others schools have two freshmen playing this week: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Southern California and UCLA. With so many first-timers in a conference meet, it could make for a very interesting week.
The three "rookies," all of whom currently own averages among the nine-best by freshmen in school history, will be joined by two fourth-year juniors, Kristoffer Max (72.00 average, second-best on the team) and John Paterson (73.55) and a fourth-year sophomore, Adam Matteson (74.17).
CU head coach Roy Edwards isn't worried about the overall youth of his team.
"The freshmen have been leading us all year, so this won't be anything different than what they've been experiencing. I'm not worried about the freshmen being freshmen anymore," Edwards said. "They've been through the fire and have been a key part of our competitions all year, so it won't be something new for them. As for the veterans, John, Kris and Adam have played some great golf in their careers, and they know and need to be a huge part of us this week for us to be successful. All three have been playing really well, and I expect them to in the Pac-12's."
Biwer, who has led the team in stroke average almost from wire-to-wire, is designated as CU's No. 1 player for the meet, the first freshmen in a conference championship since Jeremy Paul in 2014 and Kane Webber in 2000. McDermott is No. 2, marking the first time freshman have been designated 1-2 most likely ever; they are followed by Max, Eisenbeis, Paterson and Matteson. The only other time three freshmen competed in a league meet was in 2014; prior to joining the Pac-12 in 2012, all previous conference events CU competed his featured five players.
The teams will begin play Monday with 36 holes, followed by 18 each on Tuesday and Wednesday at Aldarra Golf Club, located about 20 miles east of Seattle. Edwards hadn't seen it until the team saw it Saturday and practiced on it Sunday. Aldarra will feature a 6,979-yard, par-71 Aldarra Golf Course layout for the championships.
"I know it's (going to be) a really tough golf course, it's in great condition and should be a great challenge," he said. "It's in a beautiful place with really slopey greens, rolling hills, that sort of terrain. It looks like it's going to be a great championship site, but will take a great course management plan and the execution of that plan to play well. There's a great variety holes, for example a couple of short par-3s and a couple of really long ones, so those are always fun to play."
The Pac-12 has long instituted a 6-for 5 scoring format for its title meet, obviously a reward for those schools with greater depth and a challenge for those without it. It's almost always the only time any of the schools see such a format annually. But Edwards has always prepared his team for such a setup.
"We spend all year playing guys as individuals, so everybody one through six in the lineup has had a lot of tournament experience, so we're definitely ready for the 6-for-5 format, he said. "Everyone's played in the (designated scorer) lineup and if not as individuals. It's important for us to have built that depth through the year and I feel good with where we are at with it."
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Ranked No. 89 and 97 in the two major rankings (GolfStat and Golfweek, respectively), the Buffaloes are a longshot to qualify as a team for the NCAA Championships, short of claiming the Pac-12 title. A player or two could possibly make it as individuals, depending on how they play here.
"From a team standpoint, we've got an opportunity to finish the year out strong," Edwards said. "The league is such that there really are good teams from top to bottom, so if we play well, we'll beat some really good teams and be in the mix to win the tournament. We've kind of been in and out of the mix all year for a regional bid, but we knew we had to play well in our last two events and came up a bit short.
"All we can really do is focus on this week and let everything take care of itself from there."
Six teams are ranked among the nation's top 50 by Golfweek, fewer than usual for what has long been referred to as the nation's top collegiate golf conference. Arizona State leads the way (No. 4), followed by Washington (No. 8), Stanford (No. 20), Arizona (No. 32), Oregon (No. 40) and Utah (No. 49). Cal, UCLA and USC are almost always in the top 50, and the Buffaloes crack the top 50 more often than not through their history.
Live scoring will be available at www.golfstat.com.
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Live Leaderboard - https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=24550
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