CARMEL, Calif. – The UCLA males’s golf crew set its season on a brand new monitor Tuesday on the Protect Golf Membership Collegiate, surging within the last of three rounds to a 10-shot win over San Diego State and 11 different squads at Protect Golf Membership.
The Bruins entered the ultimate spherical trailing San Diego State by a shot after the opening 36-hole day Monday. UCLA mixed to shoot 11 below within the last spherical, good for a 23-under 841 whole on the hilly Tom Fazio-designed structure on the expansive Santa Lucia Protect on the Monterey Peninsula. Cal Poly was the host crew.
The victory adopted on the heels of a second-place end on the Golf Membership of Georgia Collegiate Invitational final week. That outcome adopted fifth-place and seventh-place finishes to start out the season. UCLA coach Armen Kirakossian stated Tuesday that his squad had performed properly sufficient in every occasion, aside from struggles to complete.
“Actually, I feel it was only a studying factor,” Kirakossian stated. “In Georgia, we truly performed an excellent last spherical and simply acquired beat by an excellent Duke crew that day.
“We felt like we type of acquired over the hump of, you already know, of getting a lead after which truly performing. Then in the present day, I feel the fellows in all probability felt very snug. They usually simply went on and had an excellent last spherical.”
Senior Pablo Ereno (68-74-66–208) led the Bruins on the person leaderboard, ending one shot behind Colorado State’s Jay Pabin (69-69-69–207). UCLA senior Omar Morales (68-73-70–211) completed tied for sixth individually, and Baylor Larrabee (70-70-72–212) completed ninth.
The excessive finishes have added that means for Morales and Ereno, who’re in place on the PGA Tour College standings to earn standing on the Korn Ferry Tour.
Morales was in fifth place earlier than the Protect match, that means he was in place to earn standing on the Korn Ferry Tour for the rest of that tour’s 2025 season after the NCAA Championship in Might, and in addition the appropriate to skip to the ultimate stage of PGA Tour Q-Faculty for the following season, amongst different advantages. The PGA Tour U standings can be up to date Wednesday.
Ereno was in twelfth place on these standings heading into the Protect match, which might give him standing in Might for the rest of the North America Swing of PGA Tour Americas and an exemption into second stage of PGA Tour Q-Faculty. If the robust end Tuesday strikes him into the highest 10, he can be in place to earn conditional standing on the Korn Ferry Tour for the rest of the 2025 season after Might, exempt standing for the 2025 North America Swing of PGA Tour Americas and an exemption into second stage of PGA Tour Q-Faculty.
Kirakossian stated his gamers embrace such alternatives, however for now his squad is thrilled with its first win of the autumn season.
“I all the time remind the fellows that you just simply have gotten to remain hungry, that the place you need to be must proceed to be in sooner or later, that you just’re pushing each single day to enhance,” the Bruins coach stated. “That doesn’t imply that we gained’t have a good time this one on the best way house. It’s a cool strategy to end the autumn, for certain.
“The distinctive half is that everybody’s contributing, but everybody nonetheless has stuff that they in all probability need to work on for the spring.”
