Thursday, February 21
Wailua GC - Lihue, Hawaii
All Day
Saint Mary's College of California
vs
1st Round
GOLF | Gaels Look to Stay Hot in Hawaii
2/20/2019 7:19:00 PM | Men's Golf
Saint Mary's tees off at the John Burns Intercollegiate this week after finishing third in Arizona last month.
MORAGA, Calif. — Fresh off a top-3 finish in their last competition, No. 48 Saint Mary's returns to the course beginning tomorrow in Hawaii for the John Burns Intercollegiate.
TOURNAMENT INFO
Date: February 21-23, 2019
Host: University of Hawaii
Location: Lihue, Hawaii
Course: Wailua Golf Course
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 / 6,991 yds
Field: 20 teams, 114 golfers
Live Scoring: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=15747
THE FIELD
Eight of the 20 teams in the tournament rank in Golfstat's top-50 in the country. The pack is led by No. 2 Duke and also features No. 11 Arizona State, No. 20 Texas A&M, No. 24 BYU, No. 32 North Carolina, No. 33 UNLV, and No. 49 Arizona.
Rounding out the field is CSUN, Fresno State, Grand Canyon, Long Beach State, New Mexico, Northern Colorado, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UTEP, Virignia, Washington State and the host, Hawaii.
THE LINEUP
Saint Mary's lineup will feature the usual suspects in Blake Hathcoat, Michael Slesinski, Ryan Grauman, Ethan Farnam, and Ethan Ashbrook.
All five Gaels have played 18 holes this season across six tournaments.
LAST TIME OUT
Ethan Farnam shot two consecutive 4-under rounds to finish in sole possession of fourth place with a 10-under total and round scores of 69-67-67. It was the sophomore's first top-5 finish of his collegiate career and also the best result of any Gael this season. Four birdies on the front-9 helped Farnam lock down a solid round and he ended only one stroke back of Trevor Werbylo (UA) and Riley Elmes (LMU) for second place.
As a team, Saint Mary's shot 21-under during the two-day tournament and placed third out of 16 teams. The Gaels trailed only Arizona (37-under) and No. 11 Arizona State (34-under) on the team leaderboard and finished ahead of their WCC rivals No. 9 BYU and Loyola Marymount, who placed ninth and 11th, respectively.
ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT
This year is the 43rd year of the John Burns Intercollegiate.
Texas A&M will look to defend their title after winning last year's tournament while Virginia will look to take the crown once again after claiming it two years prior.
The Aggies' Chandler Phillips has won the individual title each of the last two seasons and is the tournament's first back-to-back champion. The senior will look to make it a three-peat this weekend.
Wailua is a municipal course, which played host to three USGA National Public Links Championships and has a Top 10 rating by Golf Digest as one of the best courses in the state of Hawaii. It first played host to the Burns in 1978, the second year of the tournament. In addition, Wailua will host this year's Big West Conference Championship in April.
As governor of the state of Hawai'i, Burns longed to see the growth of UH's athletes at a competitive level with the rest of the nation. He took part in initiating statehood in 1959 and also started the planning and construction for Aloha Stadium – home of UH football and the NFL's Pro Bowl, as well as other island sporting events and music concerts.
Before he passed away on April 15, 1975 at the age of 66, Burns had a hand in upgrading UH's athletics program. Shortly after his death, his namesake tournament was founded. This tournament reflects back to Burns, the political power who was really a "sportsman at heart."
TOURNAMENT INFO
Date: February 21-23, 2019
Host: University of Hawaii
Location: Lihue, Hawaii
Course: Wailua Golf Course
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 / 6,991 yds
Field: 20 teams, 114 golfers
Live Scoring: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=15747
THE FIELD
Eight of the 20 teams in the tournament rank in Golfstat's top-50 in the country. The pack is led by No. 2 Duke and also features No. 11 Arizona State, No. 20 Texas A&M, No. 24 BYU, No. 32 North Carolina, No. 33 UNLV, and No. 49 Arizona.
Rounding out the field is CSUN, Fresno State, Grand Canyon, Long Beach State, New Mexico, Northern Colorado, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UTEP, Virignia, Washington State and the host, Hawaii.
THE LINEUP
Saint Mary's lineup will feature the usual suspects in Blake Hathcoat, Michael Slesinski, Ryan Grauman, Ethan Farnam, and Ethan Ashbrook.
All five Gaels have played 18 holes this season across six tournaments.
LAST TIME OUT
Ethan Farnam shot two consecutive 4-under rounds to finish in sole possession of fourth place with a 10-under total and round scores of 69-67-67. It was the sophomore's first top-5 finish of his collegiate career and also the best result of any Gael this season. Four birdies on the front-9 helped Farnam lock down a solid round and he ended only one stroke back of Trevor Werbylo (UA) and Riley Elmes (LMU) for second place.
As a team, Saint Mary's shot 21-under during the two-day tournament and placed third out of 16 teams. The Gaels trailed only Arizona (37-under) and No. 11 Arizona State (34-under) on the team leaderboard and finished ahead of their WCC rivals No. 9 BYU and Loyola Marymount, who placed ninth and 11th, respectively.
ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT
This year is the 43rd year of the John Burns Intercollegiate.
Texas A&M will look to defend their title after winning last year's tournament while Virginia will look to take the crown once again after claiming it two years prior.
The Aggies' Chandler Phillips has won the individual title each of the last two seasons and is the tournament's first back-to-back champion. The senior will look to make it a three-peat this weekend.
Wailua is a municipal course, which played host to three USGA National Public Links Championships and has a Top 10 rating by Golf Digest as one of the best courses in the state of Hawaii. It first played host to the Burns in 1978, the second year of the tournament. In addition, Wailua will host this year's Big West Conference Championship in April.
As governor of the state of Hawai'i, Burns longed to see the growth of UH's athletes at a competitive level with the rest of the nation. He took part in initiating statehood in 1959 and also started the planning and construction for Aloha Stadium – home of UH football and the NFL's Pro Bowl, as well as other island sporting events and music concerts.
Before he passed away on April 15, 1975 at the age of 66, Burns had a hand in upgrading UH's athletics program. Shortly after his death, his namesake tournament was founded. This tournament reflects back to Burns, the political power who was really a "sportsman at heart."
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