UCLA
Arizona Intercollegiate
Bruins Resume Season in Arizona
January 27, 2019 | Men's Golf
TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bruins pick up their 2018-2019 schedule this week, as a quintet of players take part in a team event, the Arizona Intercollegiate, while a trio participates in the Arizona Medalist.
UCLA's starting five for the Arizona Intercollegiate, which will be played at the Sewailo Golf Club (par 71, 7,292 yards), will be senior Cole Madey, junior Hidetoshi Yoshihara, sophomores Devon Bling and Eddy Lai and freshman Sean Maruyama. The three Bruin individuals taking part in the Arizona Medalist, at the Randolph Golf Course (par 72, 6,902 yards), are seniors Jack Ireland and Patrick Murphy and freshman Bryan Wiyang Teoh.
Both 54-hole tournaments will feature 36 holes of golf on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday. Monday's action at the Arizona Intercollegiate will begin at 8 a.m. MT/7 a.m. PT, with a shotgun start (Madey hole No. 8, Bling and Lai on No. 9 and Maruyama and Yoshihara on No. 10). Monday's play at the Arizona Medalist will start 15 minutes later, with another shotgun start (Ireland and Teoh on No. 15 and Murphy on No. 16).
After three-straight, seventh-place finishes to open the fall campaign, the Bruins closed the 2018 portion of their schedule with a tie for fourth showing at the Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational (Nov. 2-4). UCLA finished at 27-under (825), which featured an opening-round 272 (-12) and a final-round 269 (-15). The Bruins were seventh at the Golfweek Conference Challenge (Sept. 16-18, +1, 577) and the Windon Memorial Classic (Sept. 23-24, +9, 873) and tied for seventh at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate (Oct. 19-21, +3, 867). The Bruins are a combined 14-under in their four round twos this season.
Ireland was the top finisher at each of the first two tournaments, tying for ninth at Golfweek (-3, 141) and tying for eighth at Windon (-2, 214). Madey paced the Bruins in Georgia (E, 216), while Teoh was the top Bruin at Ka'anapali (-8, 205).
Joining the Bruins in the 16-team field at the Arizona Intercollegiate are No. 9 BYU, No. 11 Arizona State, No. 18 Texas A&M, Arizona, Denver, Iowa State, Little Rock, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Saint Mary's, UTEP, UTSA and Washington.
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