LA JOLLA, Calif. - Following Sunday's opening round of the Fourth Annual UC San Diego Invitational at Torrey Pines, the Tritons' men's golf team sits in a tie for sixth and two players are in the top-25.
Battling wet conditions with wind gusts of 25-30 miles per hour on Torrey Pines' North course, UC San Diego totaled a 304, 16-over par on the par 72, 7258-yard layout.
Nathan Tseng and
Justin Gill are tied for 23rd with 11 other players after carding a 3-over 75.
A trio of teams - North Dakota State, Oklahoma Christian, and Yale - lead the 17-team field after recording a 293 (+5) Sunday. They are five strokes in front of fourth-place Idaho.
Three players are tied for the lead at two-under including Matt McGann of Idaho, Ian Simonich from North Dakota State, and Yale's Robert You.
Monday's second round is set for a 1 p.m. start and the third and final round goes out Tuesday at 7 a.m. Action can be followed with
live scoring.
TRITON RESULTS
T-23.
Justin Gill, +3
T-23.
Nathan Tseng, +3
T-36.
Davis McDowell, +4
T-56.
Davis Lee, +6
T-68.
Calvin Kong*, +7
T-77.
Francis Catalano, +8
T-77.
Jerry Wu*, +7
T-90.
Leo Cheng*, +9
T-100.
Akira Isayama*, +12
* playing as an individual, does not count in team scoring
TRITON TIDBITS
• The 18-school field is the largest in the event's history.
• The 2023 UC San Diego Invitational was also played at Torrey Pines.
• The 2021 and 2022 events were held at La Costa in San Diego.
• This is the first year that the tournament is spanning three days instead of the usual two.
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Justin Gill is a true freshman playing in his third event as a Triton. He's coming off a 13th-place finish at the Orange County Collegiate in February.
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Davis McDowell has been UC San Diego's top finisher in three of five events this season.
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About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions III and II and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.
