Men’s Golf Heads to Stanford for Pac-12 Championships

LOS ANGELES – The UCLA men’s golf team opens postseason play at the Pac-12 Men’s Golf Championships set to take place from Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30 at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif.
 
UCLA will compete in a play-six, count-five format with 36 holes Friday, 18 Saturday and 18 Sunday. The course plays a par 70 with a course yardage of 6,727 with the 11 Pac-12 Conference teams that feature men’s golf. Daily highlights from each round will be aired on the Pac-12 Network. Fans can follow along with this live scoring link.
 
UCLA Lineup (1-6): Pablo Ereño, Mason Greene, Kyle An, Alvaro Muller, Ty Griggs and Lincoln Melcher.
 
The Field
Four of the Pac-12 teams in this year’s field are ranked in the top-25 of the latest Golfweek poll released this Monday. Leading the way is No. 4 Arizona State, followed by No. 9 Stanford, No. 18 Arizona and No. 22 Oregon.
 
UCLA at the Pac-12 Championships
UCLA has won five Pac-10/12 conference titles in program history with its last coming 17 years ago in the 2005-06 season in Palm Desert, Calif. at The Canyons at Bighorn. There, Daniel Im won the Bruins’ most recent individual medal at the event with a score of 7-under (67-68-70-72).
 
The last time the Bruins competed at the Stanford Golf Course for the Pac-12 Championships was in 2011 when they finished in third place with two top-10 individual placements in Alex Shi Yup Kim (3rd, -3) and Patrick Cantlay (T-9th, +3).
 
Last Year at the Pac-12 Championships
UCLA finished sixth out of 11 teams at 34-over par at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships hosted at Aldarra Golf Club in Sammamish, Wash. Then-freshman Pablo Ereño posted the Bruins’ best score of the tournament at 3-over to tie for 18th (68-69-78-72). He was in a tie for third after day one thanks to back-to-back sub-70 scores in his first two rounds.
 
Bruins at a Glance
Ereño and Greene own UCLA’s top two scoring averages heading into the Pac-12 Championships this weekend. Over 24 rounds of golf, Ereño averages 72.6 strokes per round. All five of Ereño’s under-par scores this season have come in the spring.
 
Greene has shot a collective 4-under par in third-round play this season, shooting a whole two strokes better in third rounds from his season average of 72.9.
 
Freshman Lincoln Melcher will be playing in his first tournament…