Hawaii Qualifying Tournament

With a phenomenal final round of 66, David Chung won the Inaugural Stanford Golf "Race to Hawaii" Qualifying Tournament.

Andrew Yun also fired a gallant 68

over the challenging San Francisco Golf Club course

in attempt to overcome a 4 shot deficit but Chung held firm.

Senior Captain, Steve Ziegler, carded four rock solid even par rounds to finish 3rd.

Final Leaderboard:

Rank	Player	Rnd 1	Rnd 2	Rnd 3	Rnd 4	Total
		(SGC)	(CAL)	(SGC)	(SF)
1	Chung	68	71	69	66	274 (-9)
2	Yun	73	71	68	68	280 (-3)
3	Ziegler	70	72	70	71	283
4	Wilson	69	74	72	75	290
5	Brockington	73	76	75	74	298
6	Dedecker	69	76	79	77	301
7	Lebow	72	79	74	77	302
8	Kearney	82	73	73	75	303
9	Bowen	79	74	79	74	306
10	Kim	80	73	76	RTD	RTD

Round 4 scores - San Francisco Golf Club (Par 71):

66 - David Chung

68 - Andrew Yun

71 - Steve Ziegler

74 - Graham Brockington

74 - Wilson Bowen

75 - Cameron Wilson

75 - Steven Kearney

77 - Shane Lebow

77 - Andre Dedecker

RTD - Sihwan Kim

It's not every day that people shoot 66 at San Francisco Golf Club, and it will certainly be one to remember... (!)

Round 3 scores - Stanford Golf Course (Par 70):

68 - Andrew Yun

69 - David Chung

70 - Steve Ziegler

72 - Cameron Wilson

73 - Steven Kearney

74 - Shane Lebow

75 - Graham Brockington

76 - Sihwan Kim

79 - Andre Dedecker

79 - Wilson Bowen

It was a beautiful day out on the Stanford Golf Course. Thanks to all Club members who came along to watch. We hope you enjoyed the spectacle!

Round 2 scores - California Golf Club (Par 72):

71 - David Chung

(35-36 with 4 birdies and 3 bogies)

71 - Andrew Yun

(3 under 33 back nine with a total of 4 birdies for the day)

72 - Steve Ziegler

(birdied holes 5,6,7,12 and 17 with an extraordinary recovery shot and hole out)

73 - Sihwan Kim

(3 birdies and a bogie free back nine)

73 - Steven Kearney

(sub par leader with an eagle on the first and birdies on holes 8, 11 and 17)

74 - Wilson Bowen

(birdied holes 7 and 16)

74 - Cameron Wilson

(birdied holes 3, 15 and 17 with a nice chip and putt)

76 - Graham Brockington

(a lone birdie captured on video... watch!)

76 - Andre Dedecker

(birdied holes 1 and 11)

79 - Shane Lebow

(opened with a birdie but still recovering from congestion)

Click here to see the full playlist of videos from today's round.

Round 1 scores - Stanford Golf Course (Par 70):

RANK : NAME : SCORE : VIDEO

1 : David Chung : 68 (-2) :

(solid nines of 33 and 35 with four birdies and just two bogies)

2= : Cameron Wilson : 69 :

(Cameron birdied all the par 4s on the front nine, parred all the par fives but bogied all the par 3s. 9 straight pars on the back nine!)

2= : Andre Dedecker : 69 :

(bounced back from a hiccup double bogie 5 on hole 14 with birdies on holes 15 and 16)

4 : Steve Ziegler : 70 :

(a clutch back nine of 33 with birdies on holes 11 and 14)

5 : Shane Lebow : 72 :

(feeling a little under the weather but with nines of 34 and 38 Shane kept up the energy through the round pretty well)

6= : Andrew Yun : 73 :

(a difficult pin position on hole 3 caught out several players including Andrew who made a very rare 3 putt from short range. He drained a long birdie putt on hole 18 to exact some revenge before the day was done)

6= : Graham Brockington : 73 :

(Perhaps the most physically fit man on the team, Graham's hard work is now showing through in his play. His shot of the day is captured in the video above with a 3 wood second shot deep into the green on the 510 yard uphill par 5 hole 16. It is as though he has an extra gear when he needs it!)

8 : Wilson Bowen : 79 :

(A tough day on the greens meant a round without birdies despite many opportunities)

9 : Sihwan Kim : 80 :

(A round peppered with double bogies meant a rocky road start for Sihwan. It was a similar story last Fall season and likewise he will quickly put things to rights)

10 : Steve Kearney : 82 :

(some good swings out there not reflected in the score... onward to Cal Club!)

Guest appearance from Volunteer Assistant Coach...

4= : Rob Grube : 70 :

(pro solid nines of 35 and 35)

See the full playlist of today's videos here.

Next Qualifying Round will be held on Saturday January 22nd at the California Golf Club...

A New Year ....

Hello Friends of Stanford Men's Golf....

It has been a few months since I have checked in personally on the blog. My new Assistant Phil has done a great job posting some fun pictures and updates the last few posts so credit to him!

We are at that time of year where the butterflies start to crank up and the eager anticipation for the spring schedule comes to life. We all believe we have a great team and now the challenge is to put it on show and do what it takes in preparation to let it all come forward. All I can say is that on campus right now the Cardinal mojo is high! What a win in the Orange Bowl, the Women hoopsters knocking off UConn, and the Men's Basketball team taking down the top team in the Pac-10 a few days back with their win against the Washington Huskies. All good vibes!!! This makes us all feel like good things are in store for Men's Golf.

The team enjoyed their time off and in impressive fashion did really well on their fall quarter finals. It is great validation for the players that come here to know that they might miss as much or more school than any team in the Athletic Department but yet the team GPA usually is north of 3.2, Impressive to say the least and credit to the team for their hard work both on and off the golf course.

We are now immersed in our off season training regimen of workouts three days per week and practice on the Stanford Course and Siebel Complex. The guys have enjoyed a few new practice games that Coach Rowe has also implemented testing all facets of their game.

We are all preparing for our next big event which will take place the first week of Feb. on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is the strongest field we will play in all year as teams from all over the country fly in to enjoy the beautiful weather and good competition. This year we will compete on the Waikoloa Kings Course which is gem and a very strong test of golf. It is neat to see how intense qualifying is for this first tournament among the guys. This is driven both by the hard work they have put in over the winter as well as the keen draw of the destination. Let's see ... playing golf in Hawaii for the week or staying back on campus to study... the preference is very clear!!! Our record in Hawaii has been solid over the years ... we have come out victorious two out of the last three years! Lets see what happens.

On the home front, we are all very excited to be following the exploits of our first PGA Tour Players in a while. Zack Miller and Joe Bramlett played really well at the Q-school this past fall and both are one event into their rookie year on Tour. I never knew PGATour.com could garner so much of my attention following their scores! Also fun to see David Chung enjoy a few weeks as the World's #1 ranked amateur according to the R&A. Impressive to say the least and we are all eager to see how he plays this winter and spring.

Also on the radar around here is the upcoming Pac-10 Men's Golf Championship that will be held at Stanford April 29,30 and May 1. We only host once every 10 or now 12 years so we are working hard to make it very memorable. Stanford's last Pac-10 crown was in 1994 so we have something to prove on our home course. Focusing on the process and quality preparation will get us where we want to go.

We continue to be very appreciate of the support that we get from the Stanford Golf Community and people like you. Thanks for reading our blog and checking out www.stanfordmensgolf.org. I have a feeling that this team can make their marks on the record book if things go the right way .... Go Cardinal!

Coach Ray

Finals Week

What a week for Stanford Golf !

Whilst the current team have been taking final exams for their fall classes, two recent graduates have undergone a major golfing examination and passed with distinction. Congratulations to Zack Miller and Joseph Bramlett who have earned their 2011 season PGA Tour cards. Read more about both players and their landmark achievement here.

No one person will be more delighted to hear this latest news than Coach Wally Goodwin, guest of honor for the Stanford Men's Golf Club annual dinner held tonight (12/7/10) at the Faculty Club. Many sports fans would really love to have been a fly on the wall there tonight to gain some insights by listening in to Coach Goodwin's stories! As would Coach Ray and I, but unfortunately we were not able to hear our former coach's address due to a clash with the GCAA Coaches Conference. Thanks therefore go to team captain Steve Ziegler for passing along our apologies.

Of course there must have been plenty of talk about the upcoming Stanford Football "Orange Bowl" too... much to celebrate!

Cheers, and Go Cardinal!

Coach Rowe

2010 Big Game Cup

Since our return from Cordevalle Stanford Golf has hosted two of its fundraiser events. The Cardinal Classic was held on November 12th and the Big Game Cup took place yesterday (November 18th). Both were held at the Stanford Golf Course and were lots of fun for everyone, but most importantly they provided great opportunities for coaches and players to express thanks to its many friends and avid supporters of the Cardinal golf program.

The Big Game Cup matches up die hard Cal Bear supporting golfers against their Cardinal counterparts in the run up to Big Game football weekend.

Here is the Big Game Cup scoresheet published:


By an extremely narrow margin (32.5 to 30.5), Stanford BEAT CAL ...It all came down to the last score posted!

In the Big Game Football matches, Cal have been victorious in the past 7/8 matches. Like Coach Harbaugh, Coach Ray recalled similar dismay for his side prior to this latest Big Game Golf Cup encounter. However, whilst no-one can precisely quote the correlation between Big Game Golf and Big Game Football, Ray and his Stanford supporters are hopeful that perhaps this triumph signifies a turn in fortune.

Friendly rivalry was the spirit of the day and both Coach Desimone of Cal and Coach Ray of Stanford exemplified that spirit in their post match presentations. Turning attentions to the strength of present day Men's Golf teams on both sides of the Bay, "In all my years coaching, I have never known such a phenomenally high standard of college golf and the absolute icing on the cake would be to see Stanford and Cal battle it out down the stretch for the PAC 10 Championships at Stanford and then the 2011 NCAA National Championships at Oklahoma State," said Coach Desimone.

If you are up early tomorrow morning you can listen to Coach Ray and Coach Desimone talking Big Game on 680 am radio "Hooked on Golf" at around 7.15am.


The Cardinal team now break for Thanksgiving followed by "dead week" before "finals" exams.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Philip Rowe

Cordevalle - The final event of the Fall

The Cardinal are heading down to Cordevalle this weekend to dispute the final event of the Fall. "Both as a team and for each individual player, this is the last chance we'll get to put it on show in 2010" rallied Coach Ray to his men following a team workout earlier this week, "it's time to make a statement ahead of a spring Championship season that is really not far away now".

There several causes for optimism as the players prepare to compete at the UCLA hosted event:

1. It feels somewhat like a home event given that the venue is situated only 45 minutes south of the Stanford campus at San Martin. The players know the course well and had a chance to play the course on Monday this week.

2. Stanford picked up first place last year after shooting a team total of 24 under par... See last years results on Golfstat.

3. Sihwan Kim and David Chung finished 2nd and tied 3rd at Cordevalle last year respectively. Sihwan is also a former champion of the event having won it his freshman year. Andrew Yun is fresh off an individual victory at the Prestige and a 4th place finish at Isleworth.

4. David Chung has just returned to the lineup since representing Team USA at the World Amateur in Argentina last week and the Junior All-American is tipped to notch up multiple collegiate victories this season '10-'11. Chung is a player who knows how to win since his stellar summer of winning top level amateur events (the Porter Cup and Western Amateur) back to back this past summer.

5. Top 3 team finishes in the last two events without the Chung and Kim duo in the lineup have demonstrated the Cardinal team's strength in depth. The Gifford Collegiate at Cordevalle is a 6 man team counting 5 from the 6 scores, therefore this 'extra man' format is likely to be advantageous.

See the full team lineup here, follow us live from Cordevalle via http://www.golfstatresults.com and then check back soon for a coach's Fall Season roundup and update.

Go Cardinal!

Philip Rowe

PS.
There are only a couple of team slots left available for the Cardinal Golf Classic event held at The Stanford Golf Course on 11/12/10. Please contact the Men's Golf office to reserve one of those last spots.

PPS. Want to BEAT CAL! ? ...team up for Stanford and take on your Cal counterparts at The Big Game Cup on 11/18/10. Likewise, contact the Men's Golf office for more information and to reserve your spot.

The PGA West Quest - Getting into the routine...

Perhaps a little introduction before I get into my first Coach’s Blog… My name is Philip Rowe, I was a member of the Stanford golf team from 1999-2002 and I have just returned to The Farm after playing on various professional golf tour circuits in Europe. The complete story about my appointment to the position of Assistant Coach with the Men’s Golf Program can be read in this interview.

I have now been with the team 4 weeks and PGA West was my first event as a “Coach”. I have thoroughly enjoyed everything. So far as the results from the PGA West event goes, hopefully you have had the opportunity to check out the Stories of the Season: Report from The Prestige at PGA West. Since our return on Tuesday evening, one of the team players has even posted an update to the Players Blog… Here’s what Sophomore Andrew Yun had to say about his individual victory (by 6 shots) in the desert!

Andrew points out that “this new school year has brought a bit of the new along with the old” and that is definitely what the coaches are sensing as well. Despite adjustments to new routines, the freshmen have already made an impact within the team and are keeping some of the more experienced players sharp on their toes. Our top team lineup might still be under construction but tremendous depth means that every squad member is making preparations for their contribution in a successful NCAA Championship run (a 9th!).

Moving on from the first event in Olympia Fields to last week at PGA West, I think the ultimate encouraging sign is that with 9 holes to play in the final round, we were in contention and poised for both team and an individual victory. That’s the Cardinal back into the routine!

Team in Cardinal Red (from Left to Right): Steven Kearney, Andrew Yun (Individual Champion), Cameron Wilson (finished 5th), Steve Ziegler, Shane Lebow, Coach Ray.

In one week (Friday October 22nd), 5 Cardinal players will be flying to Orlando, Florida for the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational. Check www.stanfordmensgolf.org for updates on qualifying...

Fall in motion!

Dear Friends of Stanford Men's Golf,

The season is underway and we are off to the races...

The team has just returned from our first event at Olympia Fields and the first day of fall quarter classes was yesterday. Everyone is getting settled in and adjusting to new routines. My new Assistant Coach Phil Rowe also started last Friday so there is much to be excited about.

Pre-Season rankings are out and the Cardinal have placed well ... #2 in the Golf Coaches Poll, and #5 in GolfWeek. These polls are hard to judge but neat to see the team recognized for their potential.

The team wasn't happy with the result at Olympia Fields (t-9) but there seems to be plenty of positives to glean from the competition. Attitudes were all positive, the course was a true US Open test, and the vibe is good looking forward to the next event. I must say it was odd not being there personally with the team and just watching on Golfstat. What a stressful experience for the coach! Now I know how the must parents feel! We are expecting our second child any day now and thus being in Chicago for the start of potential labor was not a great idea on the home front! Rob Grube, one of our all time greats, was gracious enough to take the reigns for the trip and help the guys out as their coach for the tournament. Rob is a great role model for the boys with approach, knowledge, and work ethic in his own professional career. Thanks Rob for your help!

Next on the docket is the Stadium Course at PGA West and the Prestige. We always look forward to getting down to the desert and compliments of Pete Dye the Stadium Course is one of the all time great tests of golf. Eager to see how the team fares. I would encourage everyone that is reading this to consider coming down yourselves and making a weekend out of the Prestige. The LaQuinta Resort and PGA West take great care of us and they have also created a package rate for any of our "groupies" for discounts in golf, goodies, and resort fees. Click on the image below for more info.

La Quinta Promotion -- click to enlarge

Finally, if you haven't received the information yet, the date has been set for the Cardinal Classic. We will have our team day on November 12th at the Stanford Golf Course. We hope you can make it out as the day has turned into a vital resource for the team and our endeavors. Always a fun day!!!

Thanks for following the team and for all of your support! Until next time!!!

Go Cardinal!