United Athletic Conference

The 2020 portion of the schedule has officially begun with NM State participating in the Arizona Intercollegiate. Four more teams will open up the spring schedule on Feb. 10 with California Baptist and Grand Canyon at the Orange County Collegiate and Seattle U joining Utah Valley at the SUU Pat Hicks Invitational.

 

Grand Canyon's Trevor Lampson holds the top scoring average in the WAC this season at 69.9 through 12 rounds. Kansas City's Paul Foulquie is second at 70.3, followed by Seattle U's Nathan Cogswell in third at 71.1. As a team, Grand Canyon holds the top stroke average at 284.2, followed by Kansas City (288.3) and Seattle U (289.6).

 

The WAC has had three individual medalists this season and one team title. Grand Canyon's Michael Salazar won the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational with a 12-under-par 204. NM State's Aidan Thomas was the second WAC golfer to medal this season, winning the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate with a 6-under-par 207. In the final event of the fall, UT Rio Grande Valley's Alex Summers tied for first at the Homewood Hilton Airport Invitational in Estero, Fla., carding a 4-under-par 212. The Vaqueros also won the team title with a 2-over-par 866.

 

The 2020 WAC Men's Golf Championship heads back to Arizona as Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club will play host to the tournament on May 1-3, 2020. The championship Australian Sand Belt-style golf course sits on 320 acres of land that was once a part of Ak-Chin's original May 1912 reservation before it was removed by Presidential Executive Order in late 1912. Nearly 100 years later, in 2010, the Community recovered its sacred land when it purchased the Brian Curley and Fred Couples designed facility after it was originally developed as a private club. The course currently boasts several coveted accolades that include Golfweek's list of the "Top 100 Resort Courses," "Best Courses You Can Play," and "Top Casino Courses," as well as Golf Magazine's list of "Top 100 Courses You Can Play."