The Sun Devil men's golf program will conclude its fall season at the sixth annual Williams Cup presented by STITCH Golf, held at Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, N.C., as the teams will compete Sunday-Tuesday (Oct. 18-20).
ASU is coming off a strong outing at the Big 12 Match Play Championship, where it tied for first as bad weather cancelled the final match at The Country Club of Salt Lake. ASU topped both Iowa State and then Utah 4-1 to get things started early in the week, tied BYU at 2.5 and then topped Texas Tech 3-2 to finish the week.
Peer Wernicke led the way with a 3-0 mark, while Connor Williams was 3-0-1 and Bowen Mauss 3-1, with Oscar Couilleau going 2-1.
Read about Connor
Connor Williams earned honorable mention All-America honors in 2025-26 after earning third-team honors in 2025. He has 13 top-10 finishes in his career and six top-five finishes, including a fifth-place spot at the NCAA Bremerton Regional in 2025 and a second-place finish at the 2025 Big 12 Championship. He also earned a first-team All-Big 12 selection in 2025 and 2026. He finished seventh at the 2025 NCAA Championship and won the 15th annual Patriot All-America Invitational in Arizona in December of 2025, as his final round 4-under 66 on the Wigwam Golf Club Gold Course earned him the Men’s Division title by six strokes at 14-under 196.
Connor's career top-10 finishes (13)
T1: 2026 Illini Invitational (Sept. 18-19)
T1: 2025 The Wohali (Sept. 15-16)
2: 2025 Big 12 Championship (Apr. 22-24)
2: 2024 Williams Cup (Oct. 20-22)
T4: 2026 Thunderbird Collegiate (April 10-11)
5: 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional (May 12-14)
T6: 2024 Sahalee Players (Sept. 7-8)
T7: 2025 NCAA Championship (May 23-26)
8: 2023 Maui Jim Individual (Sept. 8-9)
T8: 2025 Cabo Collegiate (Mar. 1-3)
T8: 2024 Ben Hogan Collegiate (Sept. 30-Oct. 1)
T8: 2024 Valspar Collegiate (Mar. 25-26)
T9: 2025 OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational (Sept. 19-21)
Tournament details
ASU is one of seven top-25 ranked teams in the field, which includes No. 2 Auburn and No. 10 Florida. The Gators are the defending champions. They shot 15 under par a year ago to win the team title by a dozen strokes over Texas. UNC tied for third place with Louisville. The Tar Heels had won the title in each of the tournament's first four seasons. The event honors Carolina's Hall of Fame men's basketball coach Roy Williams and his wife, Wanda, for their support of collegiate athletics, including the men's golf program.
Williams Cup
Oct. 18-20
Eagle Point Golf Club
Pat 72/7,353 yards
Wilmington, N.C.
Teams (Clippd Top-25 Ranking)
Arizona State (23)
Auburn (2)
Augusta
Florida (10)
Kentucky
Louisville
North Carolina (16)
North Carolina State
North Florida
Notre Dame (11)
Oklahoma (18)
UNLV
Utah
Vanderbilt (13)