STANFORD, Calif. – No. 45 Stanford continues the spring portion of the schedule this week, heading to La Quinta, Calif., serving as a co-host alongside UC Davis for The Prestige tournament on Feb. 17-19.
THE COURSE » The Greg Norman Course at PGA West is a par-71, 7185-yard track that has been described as “challenging but fair.” Boasting 102 bunkers, the Greg Norman course is easily identifiable by its usage of sand instead of a normal rough along the fairways, giving it a distinct flavor out of the rest of the courses in the Coachella Valley.
THE FIELD » The Prestige sees a field of 24 participants including over 10 placed inside the Top 50 programs entering the week. Participants include No. 5 North Carolina, No. 15 Pepperdine, No. 23 Texas Tech, No. 31 Northwestern, No. 34 Oregon, No. 35 Louisville, No. 36 Colorado, No. 40 Colorado State and No. 43 Arkansas-Little Rock. No. 45 Stanford rounds out a list of teams that also includes Oregon State, Florida Atlantic, Yale, Princeton, San Diego, North Carolina-Wilmington, Kansas State, Loyola Marymount, Baylor, Iowa State, UC Davis, Washington State, Kansas and Nevada.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT » The tournament consists of 54 holes of competition with three rounds of 18 holes played each day under the play five, keep four format. Round one action begins with an 18-hole shotgun start at 6:45 a.m. PT with Stanford teeing off at 11 a.m.
THE CARDINAL LINEUP » Hitting the course for the Cardinal will be Nathan Wang, Jay Leng, TK Chantananuwat, Ethan Gao and Kush Arora. Competing individually for the Cardinal is Logan Kim, Sean-Karl Dobson, Dean Greyserman and Brian Ma.
TOURNAMENT COVERAGE » A live leaderboard for The Prestige is available on Scoreboard powered by Clippd.
STANFORD AT THE PRESTIGE » Stanford, which serves as a co-host for the tournament, has won The Prestige team title twice while also boasting four individual champions. The Cardinal first won the tournament in 2006, claiming both the team and individual titles with Zach Miller taking the individual crown. Stanford completed the tournament sweep again in 2014 (Patrick Rodgers, individual) while Andrew Yun (2010) and Maverick McNealy (2015) serve as the other individual champions for the Cardinal in the tournament’s history.
ALOHA STATE OF MIND » Stanford had a strong outing at the annual Amer Ari Intercollegiate , taking 11th place while TK Chantananuwat grabbed his first collegiate top-10 finish, shooting 14-under across…
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