The @SunDevilMGolf team will open its 2019-20 season trying to win a title in Arizona and hopes to finish it by winning its third NCAA title doing the same, as the schedule is set with a 13-tournament slate. ASU will play in Arizona, Texas, Indiana, Florida, California, Hawaii, Mexico, Georgia and Washington. Four fall events get the season started, while ASU will also host its 48th Thunderbird Collegiate for the second time at Papago Golf Course April 17-18 before serving as the host for the NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale.
"I don't think anyone will look at our schedule and feel sorry for us," says Sun Devil head coach Matt Thurmond, who earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors last year. "It's a great combination of elite fields, amazing places and awesome courses. We always try to find a mix of the familiar with a splash of new. Our fall schedule, in particular, has two new events. After starting at the Maui Jim up at Mirabel, we go to Trinity Forest and then on to Notre Dame. At Trinity Forest we play a PGA Tour venue and at Notre Dame the individual winner gets an exemption in a nearby Korn Ferry Tour event. Isleworth in late October is always a perfect way to wrap up the fall."
"We encourage our guys to play big overseas events when the timing is right. Alex (del Rey) will miss a fall event for a European Tour start and Chun, James (Leow), and Won Jun Lee will all attend the Asia Pacific Amateur in Shanghai. They won't be available for Trinity Forest. This will give our team an opportunity for some varied lineups and increased individual opportunities. Kevin will also miss some team stuff to play the PGA Tour event at Bay Hill in March. To stay highly-ranked our depth will have to really show this year with some top players missing multiple events.
"Our spring has the usual sunblock-laden trips to Hawaii and Cabo, plus two Southern California events at North Ranch and San Diego Country Club. We particularly enjoy descending on Tucson annually for the NIT and can't wait to play another great field and the quickly-growing Thunderbird Collegiate at Papago Golf Course. We also will have the special opportunity to play Augusta State's event in April, and attend the Monday practice round at the Masters.
"I'm personally excited to return to Seattle Golf Club with my Sun Devils for the Pac-12 Championships and after a Regionals at who-knows-where, we get our first chance to play the NCAA Championship right in our own town at Grayhawk Golf Club. What a year!!!"
SEPTEMBER 13-15: THE MAUI JIM INVITATIONAL (MIRABEL GOLF CLUB IN SCOTTSDALE, AZ/GEORGIA STATE)
Georgia Tech took home the 2018 team title and Bryson Nimmer of Clemson earned the individual trophy at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate, the first event of the 2018-19 @SunDevilMGolf season. ASU (265-272-277) shot 26-under 814 and finished second behind Georgia Tech's 28-under 812 (265-274-273). Nimmer (67-63-65) shot 15-under 195 to top Chun An Yu's 13-under 197 (65-64-68). In the fall of 2017 ASU shot an 11-under 277 in the final round of the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in Carefree, AZ, to win the team title over three rounds (Sept. 22-24), while sophomore Alex del Rey had the best round of his collegiate career with a 7-under 65 to earn medalist honors at Desert Forest.
SEPTEMBER 22-24: TRINITY FOREST INVITATIONAL (TRINITY FOREST GOLF CLUB IN DALLAS, TX/SMU)
Baylor and Thomas Rosenmueller of North Texas won the 2018 titles, while Florida claimed the 2017 team title after carding a 17-under (835) over the three rounds and USC's Justin Suh took home the individual championship after submitting a 10-under 203. Trinity Forest Golf Club resembles many of the great old courses of the Northeast and Great Britain, featuring a links style course on a rolling meadow with tall native grasses and dramatic bunkering and green complexes. The team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw – Coore & Crenshaw, Inc. – designed both the championship golf course, the short course and the nine-hole "Horse Course" as the design of Trinity Forest honors classic golf courses with traditional, strategic golf and great artistry as the guiding philosophy. Trinity Forest is the future home of the PGA TOUR's AT&T Byron Nelson Championship, as well as the new home course for SMU's golf team.
OCT. 7-8: FIGHTING IRISH CLASSIC (WARREN GOLF COURSE IN SOUTH BEND, IN/NOTRE DAME)
The University of Notre Dame will host the 14th Annual Fighting Irish Classic, taking place Oct. 7-8, at the Warren Golf Course, which is located just northeast of campus along Douglas Road. Rated the No. 12 Best College Course in America by GolfWeek, The Warren Golf Course was designed by greats, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Winding its way through 250 wooded acres on the northeast edge of the Notre Dame campus, the course incorporates traditional elements of the great golf courses of the early 20th century and — unlike many modern layouts — is built on subtleties rather than special effects. The course most notably hosted the 2019 Senior PGA Championship this past summer, as the Warren became the first college course to host a USGA event.
OCTOBER 20-22: TAVISTOCK COLLEGIATE (ISLEWORTH COUNTRY CLUB IN WINDERMERE, FLA/UCF)
ASU posted its best round of the 2018 Tavistock Invitational with a 10-under 278 to finish tied for second behind Vanderbilt at Isleworth Country Club in Windermere, Fla. ASU finished the fall season with a head-to-head record of 44-6-1 as it posted three second-place and one fourth-place finish. Sophomore Mason Andersen (70-74-67) climbed nine spots to finish tied for eighth after shooting 5-under 67. Andersen, who played at nearby Hamilton High School in Chandler, completed Tuesday's clean round with five birdies while Vanderbilt's Will Gordon won the tournament after finishing 16-under 200. Anderson finished strong at the 2017 Tavistock Collegiate Invitational as well as he shot a 5-under 211 (69-71-71) and finished fifth.
JAN. 27-28: SOUTHWESTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE (NORTH RANCH GOLF CLUB IN WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA/PEPPERDINE)
The Southwestern Intercollegiate was started by USC in 1978. The Waves and the Trojans co-hosted the event in 2013 and 2014. After a year without a tournament, Pepperdine then took over hosting duties in 2016 and merged it with its own home tournament, which had been played at a few different sites. Pepperdine won the event in 2006 and 2017, while last year USC won in dramatic fashion as medalist Justin Suh birdied the 18th hole to give the Trojans a one-stroke victory over California.
FEB. 6-8: AMERI ARI INVITATIONAL (WAIKOLOA KINGS IN WAIKOLOA, HAWAII)
ASU returns for the 28th annual Hawaii tournament, as it took home team honors in 2015 and 1995 while Todd Demsey (1995), Chris Hanell (1996), Jesper Kennegard (2009). In 2018 sophomore Alex del Rey notched his third top-10 finish in five events on the year at the 27th annual Amer Ari Invitational held in Waikoloa, Hawaii at the Kings' Course (par-72/7,074 yards) as ASU finished ninth in the 18-team field. In 2017 the squad finished fourth behind champion Texas Tech, USC and Oregon. ASU made the push to fourth after being tied for seventh to start the day by posting the best final round of any team in the field. Freshman Chun (Kevin) An Yu had an impressive first collegiate tournament, as the twelfth ranked amateur in the world finished six-under and tied for 20th overall.
MARCH 1-3: CABO COLLEGIATE (CABO DEL SOL OCEAN COURSE IN LOS CABOS, MEXICO/ARKANSAS AND HOUSTON)
Freshman Mason Andersen tied for seventh at the 2018 Cabo Collegiate, shooting a 2-under 211 (72-69-70), as @SunDevilMGolf finished fourth at 7-over 859 (285-279-295) in the 15-team field which included nine top-20 teams. Arkansas and Houston are co-hosts for the 2019 event tabbed the Cabo Collegiate held at Cabo del Sol (Ocean Course) in Los Cabos, Mexico. Social media handles are @cabocollegiate (Twitter and Instagram) and #cabogolffamily. MARCH 9-10: LAMKIN GRIPS COLLEGIATE (SAN DIEGO COUNTRY CLUB IN CHULA VISTA, CA/SAN DIEGO)
ASU played in the tournament in 2016 when Jon Rahm was swinging the clubs in Sparky gear and then last year had four Sun Devils in the top ten as it captured its second team victory by a one-stroke margin over Texas. Mason Andersen tied for first with two other players at six-under, and then won the playoff over Cole Hammer (Texas) and Blake Hathcoat (St. Mary's) by making par on No. 18. Three other Sun Devils finished in the top ten. Chun An Yu tied for fourth place at 3-under. Both Blake Wagoner and Alex del Rey finished tied for 10th.
MARCH 16-17: NATIONAL INVITATIONAL (TUCSON NATIONAL IN TUCSON, AZ/ARIZONA)
In 2017 Chun An Yu took home the individual medal after shooting an 8-under 64 in the final round. It marked the third individual medalist that season for head coach Matt Thurmond's squad. Chun shot a tournament-best 8-under on the par 4 holes and 10-under on the par-5 holes. He posted 32 pars, 18 birdies and one eagle in the 54 holes.
APRIL 4-5: AUGUSTA/HASKINS AWARD (FOREST HILLS GOLF CLUB IN AUGUSTA, GA/AUGUSTA STATE)
ASU has never won this tournament that started in 1979, but Phil Mickelson won the 1989 title with a 2-over 218 (72-71-75), the highest score to take home the title.
APRIL 17-18: ASU THUNDERBIRD COLLEGIATE (PAPAGO GOLF COURSE IN PHOENIX, AZ/ARIZONA STATE)
Last year ASU finished up hosting duties at the annual Thunderbird Invitational (47 years and counting) with both a team and individual victory, the third straight year the Sun Devils have won the tournament and the first at their new home at Papago Golf Course. Junior Chun An Yu also won the individual medal for ASU, the first Sun Devil to do so since Jon Rahm in 2016. ASU hosted since 1973. ASU has now won 12 of the past 21 (1999-2001, 2003-04, 2008-09, 2014-15, 2017-18-19) and 19 of the past 31, including the 2018 win over eventual 2018 NCAA champion Oklahoma State and the 2019 defeat of the Cowboys. Head coach Matt Thurmond has never lost at the Thunderbird Invitational since joining the program in 2016-17.
ASU THUNDERBIRD MEDALISTS
Chun An Yu, 2019
Jon Rahm, 2014, 2015, 2016
Stephan Gross, 2009 (shared)
Alejandro Canizares, 2004
Paul Casey, 2000
Jeff Quinney, 1999
Todd Demsey, 1995
Larry Barber, 1994
Phil Mickelson, 1991 and 1992
Jim Carter, 1984
Mark Sollenberger, 1974
SUN DEVIL TEAM WINS UNDER MATT THURMOND (9)
ASU Thunderbird Collegiate/April 12-13, 2019
National Invitational Tournament/Mar. 18-19, 2019
Lamkin Grips San Diego Classic/Mar. 11-12, 2019
John Burns Intercollegiate/Feb. 21-23, 2019
ASU Thunderbird Invitational/April 14-15, 2018
Bandon Dunes Intercollegiate/March 11-13, 2018
Maui Jim Intercollegiate/September 22-24, 2017
ASU Thunderbird Invitational/March 18-19, 2017
Alister MacKenzie Invitational/Oct. 10-11, 2016
APRIL 27-29: PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP (SEATTLE GOLF CLUB IN SEATTLE, WA/WASHINGTON)
Arizona State has won 12 Pac-10 titles in its 41 seasons, including a conference record six straight from 1995-2000. In addition to the six straight Pac-10 titles, ASU's other six Pac-10 titles were in 1979 (its first year in the league), 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2008. ASU tied for the league title in 2005 with Washington but lost on a tiebreaker formula, and the league decided to go to a playoff format after that season. Jon Rahm won the 2016 title and Paul Casey won three straight Pac-10 titles from 1998-2000, which is a conference record for consecutive Pac-10/12 titles. Other Sun Devils who have won the Pac-10 championship are Scott Johnson (1997), Phil Mickelson (1990), co-medalists Dan Forsman and Tony Grimes (1981), Jim Bertoncino (co-medalist in 1980) and co-medalists Scott Watkins and Dan Croonquist (1979).
MAY 17-20: NCAA REGIONALS (SITE AND COURSE TBD)
With the team victory and Jon Rahm's title at the 2016 Albuquerque Regional, ASU has won or tied for a NCAA regional title seven times. ASU tied with Arizona in 1991 and tied with New Mexico in 1998. It won the title outright in 1995, 1999, 2001 2009 and 2016. In addition to Rahm's two titles (2015 as well), Sun Devil Paul Casey won a 1998 individual regional title outright followed by Jeff Quinney (1999), Benjamin Alvarado Holley (2007) and then Jesper Kennegard in 2009. Matt Jones shared medalist honors in 2001. Regionals are set to be hosted by Auburn University Club in Auburn, San Diego's Farms Gold Club (USD), LSU's University Club, Clemson (The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem), Oklahoma (Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club in Norman) and Michigan State/Greater Lansing Sports Authority (Eagle Eye in East Lansing).
SUN DEVILS AS NCAA REGIONAL CHAMPIONS
Jon Rahm, 2016 and 2015
Jesper Kennegard, 2009
Ben Alvarado, 2007
Matt Jones, 2001 (shared)
Jeff Quinney, 1999
Paul Casey, 1998
MAY 29-JUNE 3: NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (GRAYHAWK GOLF CLUB)
Arizona State University and Grayhawk Golf Club host the 2020 Division I Men's & Women's Golf Championships on Golf Channel in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 2020 championships are scheduled to be held from May 22-27 (women) and May 29-June 3 (men). The championship will be contested on Grayhawk Golf Club's Raptor course, a par-72, 7,090-yard Tom Fazio design that is listed among the "Best Public Golf Courses in Arizona" by Golf Magazine. Since debuting in 1995, Raptor has hosted several premier competitive golf tournaments, including the PGA TOUR's Frys.com Open (2007-2009). Grayhawk also hosted Pro-Ams for the Waste Management Phoenix Open (1996 to 2012), The Tommy Bahama Challenge (2004 & 2005) and presently hosts the AJGA Thunderbird International Junior since 2000.
"I don't think anyone will look at our schedule and feel sorry for us," says Sun Devil head coach Matt Thurmond, who earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors last year. "It's a great combination of elite fields, amazing places and awesome courses. We always try to find a mix of the familiar with a splash of new. Our fall schedule, in particular, has two new events. After starting at the Maui Jim up at Mirabel, we go to Trinity Forest and then on to Notre Dame. At Trinity Forest we play a PGA Tour venue and at Notre Dame the individual winner gets an exemption in a nearby Korn Ferry Tour event. Isleworth in late October is always a perfect way to wrap up the fall."
"We encourage our guys to play big overseas events when the timing is right. Alex (del Rey) will miss a fall event for a European Tour start and Chun, James (Leow), and Won Jun Lee will all attend the Asia Pacific Amateur in Shanghai. They won't be available for Trinity Forest. This will give our team an opportunity for some varied lineups and increased individual opportunities. Kevin will also miss some team stuff to play the PGA Tour event at Bay Hill in March. To stay highly-ranked our depth will have to really show this year with some top players missing multiple events.
"Our spring has the usual sunblock-laden trips to Hawaii and Cabo, plus two Southern California events at North Ranch and San Diego Country Club. We particularly enjoy descending on Tucson annually for the NIT and can't wait to play another great field and the quickly-growing Thunderbird Collegiate at Papago Golf Course. We also will have the special opportunity to play Augusta State's event in April, and attend the Monday practice round at the Masters.
"I'm personally excited to return to Seattle Golf Club with my Sun Devils for the Pac-12 Championships and after a Regionals at who-knows-where, we get our first chance to play the NCAA Championship right in our own town at Grayhawk Golf Club. What a year!!!"
SEPTEMBER 13-15: THE MAUI JIM INVITATIONAL (MIRABEL GOLF CLUB IN SCOTTSDALE, AZ/GEORGIA STATE)
Georgia Tech took home the 2018 team title and Bryson Nimmer of Clemson earned the individual trophy at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate, the first event of the 2018-19 @SunDevilMGolf season. ASU (265-272-277) shot 26-under 814 and finished second behind Georgia Tech's 28-under 812 (265-274-273). Nimmer (67-63-65) shot 15-under 195 to top Chun An Yu's 13-under 197 (65-64-68). In the fall of 2017 ASU shot an 11-under 277 in the final round of the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in Carefree, AZ, to win the team title over three rounds (Sept. 22-24), while sophomore Alex del Rey had the best round of his collegiate career with a 7-under 65 to earn medalist honors at Desert Forest.
Team title for Maui Jim: Us
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) September 16, 2019
Medalist for Maui Jim: Cameron Sisk
Medalist for Ind. Tourney at Desert Forest: ?@a_delrey99?
(pretty good freakin' weekend) https://t.co/wp1YyGuJXM
65.64.68. 2nd. Not a bad start to kick out my junior year. Stay patient and play great, plenty of positive to take out this year!
— Chun An Yu (@kevingolfyu) September 24, 2018
#forksup#year3#begood pic.twitter.com/ySvV4JYjUR
SEPTEMBER 22-24: TRINITY FOREST INVITATIONAL (TRINITY FOREST GOLF CLUB IN DALLAS, TX/SMU)
Baylor and Thomas Rosenmueller of North Texas won the 2018 titles, while Florida claimed the 2017 team title after carding a 17-under (835) over the three rounds and USC's Justin Suh took home the individual championship after submitting a 10-under 203. Trinity Forest Golf Club resembles many of the great old courses of the Northeast and Great Britain, featuring a links style course on a rolling meadow with tall native grasses and dramatic bunkering and green complexes. The team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw – Coore & Crenshaw, Inc. – designed both the championship golf course, the short course and the nine-hole "Horse Course" as the design of Trinity Forest honors classic golf courses with traditional, strategic golf and great artistry as the guiding philosophy. Trinity Forest is the future home of the PGA TOUR's AT&T Byron Nelson Championship, as well as the new home course for SMU's golf team.
RECAP:https://t.co/a19CPrMRYR
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) September 25, 2019
SYNOPSIS: We won again
OTHER INFO: @a_delrey99 is like butter
DYK: 3 of our first tournament lineup guys are in China getting ready for @AAC_Golf
RANDOM NOTE: We had the best final round we closed this out.
OCT. 7-8: FIGHTING IRISH CLASSIC (WARREN GOLF COURSE IN SOUTH BEND, IN/NOTRE DAME)
The University of Notre Dame will host the 14th Annual Fighting Irish Classic, taking place Oct. 7-8, at the Warren Golf Course, which is located just northeast of campus along Douglas Road. Rated the No. 12 Best College Course in America by GolfWeek, The Warren Golf Course was designed by greats, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Winding its way through 250 wooded acres on the northeast edge of the Notre Dame campus, the course incorporates traditional elements of the great golf courses of the early 20th century and — unlike many modern layouts — is built on subtleties rather than special effects. The course most notably hosted the 2019 Senior PGA Championship this past summer, as the Warren became the first college course to host a USGA event.
OCTOBER 20-22: TAVISTOCK COLLEGIATE (ISLEWORTH COUNTRY CLUB IN WINDERMERE, FLA/UCF)
ASU posted its best round of the 2018 Tavistock Invitational with a 10-under 278 to finish tied for second behind Vanderbilt at Isleworth Country Club in Windermere, Fla. ASU finished the fall season with a head-to-head record of 44-6-1 as it posted three second-place and one fourth-place finish. Sophomore Mason Andersen (70-74-67) climbed nine spots to finish tied for eighth after shooting 5-under 67. Andersen, who played at nearby Hamilton High School in Chandler, completed Tuesday's clean round with five birdies while Vanderbilt's Will Gordon won the tournament after finishing 16-under 200. Anderson finished strong at the 2017 Tavistock Collegiate Invitational as well as he shot a 5-under 211 (69-71-71) and finished fifth.
@SunDevilMGolf and Mason Andersen Finish Strong In Florida - https://t.co/gxLsZwCUnT | Arizona State University Athletics https://t.co/vH0fnAiE8z
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) October 24, 2018
JAN. 27-28: SOUTHWESTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE (NORTH RANCH GOLF CLUB IN WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA/PEPPERDINE)
The Southwestern Intercollegiate was started by USC in 1978. The Waves and the Trojans co-hosted the event in 2013 and 2014. After a year without a tournament, Pepperdine then took over hosting duties in 2016 and merged it with its own home tournament, which had been played at a few different sites. Pepperdine won the event in 2006 and 2017, while last year USC won in dramatic fashion as medalist Justin Suh birdied the 18th hole to give the Trojans a one-stroke victory over California.
FEB. 6-8: AMERI ARI INVITATIONAL (WAIKOLOA KINGS IN WAIKOLOA, HAWAII)
ASU returns for the 28th annual Hawaii tournament, as it took home team honors in 2015 and 1995 while Todd Demsey (1995), Chris Hanell (1996), Jesper Kennegard (2009). In 2018 sophomore Alex del Rey notched his third top-10 finish in five events on the year at the 27th annual Amer Ari Invitational held in Waikoloa, Hawaii at the Kings' Course (par-72/7,074 yards) as ASU finished ninth in the 18-team field. In 2017 the squad finished fourth behind champion Texas Tech, USC and Oregon. ASU made the push to fourth after being tied for seventh to start the day by posting the best final round of any team in the field. Freshman Chun (Kevin) An Yu had an impressive first collegiate tournament, as the twelfth ranked amateur in the world finished six-under and tied for 20th overall.
MARCH 1-3: CABO COLLEGIATE (CABO DEL SOL OCEAN COURSE IN LOS CABOS, MEXICO/ARKANSAS AND HOUSTON)
Freshman Mason Andersen tied for seventh at the 2018 Cabo Collegiate, shooting a 2-under 211 (72-69-70), as @SunDevilMGolf finished fourth at 7-over 859 (285-279-295) in the 15-team field which included nine top-20 teams. Arkansas and Houston are co-hosts for the 2019 event tabbed the Cabo Collegiate held at Cabo del Sol (Ocean Course) in Los Cabos, Mexico. Social media handles are @cabocollegiate (Twitter and Instagram) and #cabogolffamily. MARCH 9-10: LAMKIN GRIPS COLLEGIATE (SAN DIEGO COUNTRY CLUB IN CHULA VISTA, CA/SAN DIEGO)
ASU played in the tournament in 2016 when Jon Rahm was swinging the clubs in Sparky gear and then last year had four Sun Devils in the top ten as it captured its second team victory by a one-stroke margin over Texas. Mason Andersen tied for first with two other players at six-under, and then won the playoff over Cole Hammer (Texas) and Blake Hathcoat (St. Mary's) by making par on No. 18. Three other Sun Devils finished in the top ten. Chun An Yu tied for fourth place at 3-under. Both Blake Wagoner and Alex del Rey finished tied for 10th.
Got the team win!
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) March 13, 2019
Got the individual win (great job Mason Andersen)!
Now 102-8-1!
RECAP: https://t.co/OGuMSSplpc pic.twitter.com/ZzDsrX5crl
MARCH 16-17: NATIONAL INVITATIONAL (TUCSON NATIONAL IN TUCSON, AZ/ARIZONA)
In 2017 Chun An Yu took home the individual medal after shooting an 8-under 64 in the final round. It marked the third individual medalist that season for head coach Matt Thurmond's squad. Chun shot a tournament-best 8-under on the par 4 holes and 10-under on the par-5 holes. He posted 32 pars, 18 birdies and one eagle in the 54 holes.
APRIL 4-5: AUGUSTA/HASKINS AWARD (FOREST HILLS GOLF CLUB IN AUGUSTA, GA/AUGUSTA STATE)
ASU has never won this tournament that started in 1979, but Phil Mickelson won the 1989 title with a 2-over 218 (72-71-75), the highest score to take home the title.
APRIL 17-18: ASU THUNDERBIRD COLLEGIATE (PAPAGO GOLF COURSE IN PHOENIX, AZ/ARIZONA STATE)
Last year ASU finished up hosting duties at the annual Thunderbird Invitational (47 years and counting) with both a team and individual victory, the third straight year the Sun Devils have won the tournament and the first at their new home at Papago Golf Course. Junior Chun An Yu also won the individual medal for ASU, the first Sun Devil to do so since Jon Rahm in 2016. ASU hosted since 1973. ASU has now won 12 of the past 21 (1999-2001, 2003-04, 2008-09, 2014-15, 2017-18-19) and 19 of the past 31, including the 2018 win over eventual 2018 NCAA champion Oklahoma State and the 2019 defeat of the Cowboys. Head coach Matt Thurmond has never lost at the Thunderbird Invitational since joining the program in 2016-17.
ASU THUNDERBIRD MEDALISTS
Chun An Yu, 2019
Jon Rahm, 2014, 2015, 2016
Stephan Gross, 2009 (shared)
Alejandro Canizares, 2004
Paul Casey, 2000
Jeff Quinney, 1999
Todd Demsey, 1995
Larry Barber, 1994
Phil Mickelson, 1991 and 1992
Jim Carter, 1984
Mark Sollenberger, 1974
SUN DEVIL TEAM WINS UNDER MATT THURMOND (9)
ASU Thunderbird Collegiate/April 12-13, 2019
National Invitational Tournament/Mar. 18-19, 2019
Lamkin Grips San Diego Classic/Mar. 11-12, 2019
John Burns Intercollegiate/Feb. 21-23, 2019
ASU Thunderbird Invitational/April 14-15, 2018
Bandon Dunes Intercollegiate/March 11-13, 2018
Maui Jim Intercollegiate/September 22-24, 2017
ASU Thunderbird Invitational/March 18-19, 2017
Alister MacKenzie Invitational/Oct. 10-11, 2016
APRIL 27-29: PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP (SEATTLE GOLF CLUB IN SEATTLE, WA/WASHINGTON)
Arizona State has won 12 Pac-10 titles in its 41 seasons, including a conference record six straight from 1995-2000. In addition to the six straight Pac-10 titles, ASU's other six Pac-10 titles were in 1979 (its first year in the league), 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2008. ASU tied for the league title in 2005 with Washington but lost on a tiebreaker formula, and the league decided to go to a playoff format after that season. Jon Rahm won the 2016 title and Paul Casey won three straight Pac-10 titles from 1998-2000, which is a conference record for consecutive Pac-10/12 titles. Other Sun Devils who have won the Pac-10 championship are Scott Johnson (1997), Phil Mickelson (1990), co-medalists Dan Forsman and Tony Grimes (1981), Jim Bertoncino (co-medalist in 1980) and co-medalists Scott Watkins and Dan Croonquist (1979).
MAY 17-20: NCAA REGIONALS (SITE AND COURSE TBD)
With the team victory and Jon Rahm's title at the 2016 Albuquerque Regional, ASU has won or tied for a NCAA regional title seven times. ASU tied with Arizona in 1991 and tied with New Mexico in 1998. It won the title outright in 1995, 1999, 2001 2009 and 2016. In addition to Rahm's two titles (2015 as well), Sun Devil Paul Casey won a 1998 individual regional title outright followed by Jeff Quinney (1999), Benjamin Alvarado Holley (2007) and then Jesper Kennegard in 2009. Matt Jones shared medalist honors in 2001. Regionals are set to be hosted by Auburn University Club in Auburn, San Diego's Farms Gold Club (USD), LSU's University Club, Clemson (The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem), Oklahoma (Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club in Norman) and Michigan State/Greater Lansing Sports Authority (Eagle Eye in East Lansing).
SUN DEVILS AS NCAA REGIONAL CHAMPIONS
Jon Rahm, 2016 and 2015
Jesper Kennegard, 2009
Ben Alvarado, 2007
Matt Jones, 2001 (shared)
Jeff Quinney, 1999
Paul Casey, 1998
MAY 29-JUNE 3: NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (GRAYHAWK GOLF CLUB)
Arizona State University and Grayhawk Golf Club host the 2020 Division I Men's & Women's Golf Championships on Golf Channel in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 2020 championships are scheduled to be held from May 22-27 (women) and May 29-June 3 (men). The championship will be contested on Grayhawk Golf Club's Raptor course, a par-72, 7,090-yard Tom Fazio design that is listed among the "Best Public Golf Courses in Arizona" by Golf Magazine. Since debuting in 1995, Raptor has hosted several premier competitive golf tournaments, including the PGA TOUR's Frys.com Open (2007-2009). Grayhawk also hosted Pro-Ams for the Waste Management Phoenix Open (1996 to 2012), The Tommy Bahama Challenge (2004 & 2005) and presently hosts the AJGA Thunderbird International Junior since 2000.