Dates: September 10-11
Location: Windsong Farm Golf Club | Maple Plain, Minn.
Par/Yardage: Par 71/7,380 Yards
Live Scoring: Spikemark.com and Golfstat.com, as well as the Golfstat App
THIS WEEK
Tee time has officially arrived for the University of Utah men’s golf team as the Utes travel to Minnesota for the 2023 Gopher Invitational on Sept. 10-11 at the Windsong Farm Golf Club. Head coach Garrett Clegg is beginning his seventh season at the helm of the program and he’ll be trying to help guide the Utes back to the heights they achieved in 2022, when they forged a path all the way to the NCAA Championships.
The roster is led by 2023 Second-Team All-Pac-12 honoree Javier Barcos, who led the Utes with a 71.7 stroke average a year ago. Barcos snagged his first collegiate win at the 2022 Oregon State Invitational, shooting 4-under to become the first Ute to collect an individual title since Blake Tomlinson in 2021. The Spaniard stole fourth at the Pac-12 Championships, the second-highest finish ever by a Ute at the Pac-12 Tournament and that performance helped him garner him a spot at the NCAA Morgan Hill Regional as an individual.
Also back in the fold are sophomore Go Nakatsukasa and junior Braxton Watts. In Nakatsukasa’s first season with Utah, he competed in all six spring tournaments and finished with the team’s second-best stroke average at 73.0. His nine rounds of golf carding a mark of par or better was also third-best on the roster. Coming off a 2022 Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention season, Watts posted 10 rounds of par or better adn recorded three top-20 finishes while starting in all 11 of Utah’s 2022-23 tournaments. His best showing came at the John Burns Intercollegiate in Februa, where he logged a 10th-place finish.
Clegg added four new faces to the roster in transfers Ty Griggs and Peter Jung and freshmen Sergio Jimenez and Gabriel Palacios. Griggs arrives in Utah following three seasons as a Bruin, where he improved his stroke average from 77.9 as a freshman to 73.7 as a junior, while Jung comes aboard after spending two seasons at Washington State, where he competed in six tournaments last season.
Jimenez found a home competing for the Utes after piling up a long list of hardware in Spain, including winning the Spanish Open P&P in 2019 and capturing the U-18 title in 2021. Palacious treks to Utah…
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