[Mick]

We have not really talked about men's golf this year, for good reason. They produced poor results in the fall season while playing without Michael Thorbjornsen (recovering from a stress fracture in his back as well as knee surgery). Stanford started the spring season ranked 59th in the country and quickly fell to 88th following a last place finish in the National Invitational Stroke Play tournament. A team with the #1 ranked played in the country (Thorbjornsen) as well as a Walker Cupper (Barclay Brown) and a 1st team All P12 player (Karl Vilips) was in danger of not qualifying for the postseason.

But things have started to fall into place a bit lately. The Cardinal is up to 38th in the country and is competing at Pasatiempo in the Western Intercollegiate this week. Stanford leads going into the final round which will be televised on The Golf Channel starting at 4 pm Pacific.

You can follow the results here - https://results.golfstat.com/public/lead...&tid=28593

Coach Conrad Ray has emphasized that winning begets winning. Maybe the team can start to build momentum for the postseason, as they did in 2019 when a 1st place finish at the Western Intercollegiate started a run to the national championship.

Not a bad showing, a good number of top 25 teams in attendance.  Course must have been brutal.  At par 70 and 6480 yards, not all that long by todays standards, but all teams finished over par.  Teams finishing 2,3,4 and 5, all from the Pac 12 were in double digits over par.  Pretty unusual now days for high level college golf.

It's a tricky course. I played it about 100+ times (my dad is a shareholder there). It isn't long and there are some nasty breaks on the greens. Alister MacKenzie, who designed Augusta National, Cypress Point and about 20 other top golf courses, spent more time working on Pasatiempo than any of his other courses (per his associate John Fleming) and lived adjacent to the sixth fairway.

[Mick]

We have not really talked about men's golf this year, for good reason. They produced poor results in the fall season while playing without Michael Thorbjornsen (recovering from a stress fracture in his back as well as knee surgery). Stanford started the spring season ranked 59th in the country and quickly fell to 88th following a last place finish in the National Invitational Stroke Play tournament. A team with the #1 ranked played in the country (Thorbjornsen) as well as a Walker Cupper (Barclay Brown) and a 1st team All P12 player (Karl Vilips) was in danger of not qualifying for the postseason.

But things have started to fall into place a bit lately. The Cardinal is up to 38th in the country and is competing at Pasatiempo in the Western Intercollegiate this week. Stanford leads going into the final round which will be televised on The Golf Channel starting at 4 pm Pacific.

You can follow the results here - https://results.golfstat.com/public/lead...&tid=28593

Coach Conrad Ray has emphasized that winning begets winning. Maybe the team can start to build momentum for the postseason, as they did in 2019 when a 1st place finish at the Western Intercollegiate started a run to the national championship.

Not a bad showing, a good number of top 25 teams in attendance.  Course must have been brutal.  At par 70 and 6480 yards, not all that long by todays standards, but all teams finished over par.  Teams finishing 2,3,4 and 5, all from the Pac 12 were in double digits over par.  Pretty unusual now days for high level college golf.

It's a tricky course. I played it about 100+ times (my dad is a shareholder there). It isn't long and there are some nasty breaks on the greens. Alister MacKenzie, who designed Augusta National, Cypress Point and about 20 other top golf courses, spent more time working on Pasatiempo than any of his other courses (per his associate John Fleming) and lived adjacent to the sixth fairway.