United Athletic Conference

UT Rio Grande Valley's Henry Fisher has been named TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Men's Golfer of the Week for Feb. 26 through March 3.

 

collegiate win. The senior started the tournament 3-under-par and get his card in the red all week, finishing with a 6-under-par 210 to win the tournament by four strokes. As a team, the Vaqueros took third with an 11-over-par 875. 

 

Other men's nominees: Utah Valley's Kai Iguchi led the Wolverines at the Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate, tying for 26th place with a 2-over-par 218.

 

California Baptist and Seattle U head to Oregon for the Bandon Dunes Championship to open a busy couple weeks of golf. UT Rio Grande Valley heads to Spring, Texas for the Colin Montgomerie Invitaitonal while Grand Canyon hosts the annual GCU Invitational, beginning on March 13. Kansas City and NM State will meet up in Louisiana for The Louisiana Classics while Chicago State heads to Houston for the Prairie View A&M Spring Invitational.

 

Kansas City's Paul Foulquie holds the top scoring average in the WAC this season at 71.1 through 15 rounds. Grand Canyon's Trevor Lampson is second at 71.3, followed by Seattle U's Nathan Cogswell in third at 72.6. As a team, Grand Canyon holds the top stroke average at 288.2, followed by Kansas City (290.4) and Seattle U (291.6).

 

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. UTRGV added another individual title at the Gulf Coast Collegiate as Henry Fisher earned his first collegiate with with a 4-under-par 212.

 

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."