Pac-10 Men's Golf Championship Release in PDF Format 
2009 Pac-10 Men's Golf Championship Program in PDF Format
April 20, 2009
The Arizona State men's golf team will travel to the Seattle Golf Club (6,836 yards - par 72) April 27-29 to defend its Pac-10 title in the highly competitive tournament, as last year ASU became the fifth school to win the team title in the past half decade as USC (2007), UCLA (2006), Washington (2005) and Arizona (2004) all have taken home a trophy in the past five tournaments. ASU will tee with Stanford and Oregon on the first day (April 27) beginning at 7:30 a.m. and then 12:30 p.m. off the first hole, as the six-man teams will play 36 holes on the first day. As of April 23, ASU is ranked 14th by Golfstat, 16th by Golfweek and 17th in the GCAA/Nike poll.
The Sun Devils will bring four sophomores, a junior and a freshman to Seattle in an attempt to win their second consecutive Pac-10 title. Jesper Kennegard (73.62) both played on the title-winning team last year, finishing eighth and 13th, respectively. Scott Pinckney, (73.29) coming off of back-to-back top-10 finishes, will look to continue his solid play of late at The Meadow Club. James Byrne (74.75) has already experienced success at the conference championships after shooting a 1-under par 283 last year to finish tied for third. The sole junior, Knut Borsheim, is playing in his third career Pac-10 championship and comes into the week with a 73.25 scoring average. Freshman Chan Kim (72.67), who continues to improve with every swing, rounds out the six-man team.
GOLFWEEK RANKINGS CHATTER
The April 20 Golfweek computer rankings have five teams in the top 20. USC is third, Stanford fourth, Washington fifth, ASU 16th and UCLA 17th. Stephan Gross is the highest ranked Sun Devil (29th).
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2008 RECAP
Last year at the Pac-10 championships at The Meadow Club (par-71, 6,686 yards) in Fairfax, Calif., ASU, playing with three freshmen, two sophomores and a senior, captured its eighth Pac-10 title in 16 years under head coach Randy Lein in a one-hole playoff over defending conference champion USC (#2 Golfstat/#3 Golfweek). ASU trailed by 16 to the Trojans after the first round. ASU shot 354-361-356-364 and tied with the Trojans (338-374-357-366) at 15-over 1,435. The Pac-10 Championship counts the low five scores from the six-man teams.
PAC-10 SUCCESS AT ASU
Arizona State has now won 12 Pac-10 titles in its 30 seasons, including a conference record six straight from 1995-2000. In addition to the six straight Pac-10 titles, ASU's other five Pac-10 titles have come 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. In its past six Pac-10 championships, ASU has finished first (2008), third (2003, 2006 and 2007), second (2004) and tied for first (2005).
A STRAIGHT "LEIN" OF SUCCESS AT PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS
ASU coach Randy Lein has now led ASU to eight Pac-10 titles in his 16 seasons. ASU previously won titles in 1993, Lein's first year, and then won six straight from 1995-2000. ASU tied for first but lost in a tiebreaker in 2005, finished second in 2001 and 2004 and third in 1994, 2003, 2006 and 2007. Since joining the Pac-10 in the 1978-79 school year, ASU has finished out of the top five just twice in its 30 championships (ninth in 2002 and sixth in 1983).
SUN DEVILS AS PAC-10 MEDALISTS
Paul Casey won three straight Pac-10 titles from 1998-2000, which is the last time a Sun Devil won the title and is a conference record for consecutive Pac-10 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).
PAC-10 TEAM CHAMPIONS (since 1990)
1990 Arizona State
1991 Arizona
1992 Stanford
1993 Arizona State
1994 Stanford
1995 Arizona State
1996 Arizona State
1997 Arizona State
1998 Arizona State
1999 Arizona State
2000 Arizona State
2001 USC
2002 USC
2003 UCLA
2004 Arizona
2005 Washington
2006 UCLA
2007 USC
2008 Arizona State
PAC-10 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS (since 1990)
1990 Phil Mickelson, ASU 278
1991 Manny Zerman, ARIZ 278
1992 Christian Cevaer, STAN 276
1993 Jason Gore, ARIZ 284
1994 Jason Gore, ARIZ 287
1995 Charlie Wi, CAL 279
1996 Tiger Woods, STAN 270
1997 Scott Johnson, ASU 278
1998 Paul Casey, ASU 283
1999 Paul Casey, ASU 265*
2000 Paul Casey, ASU 265*
2001 Ricky Barnes, ARIZ 268
2002 Jim Seki, STAN 284
2003 John Merrick, UCLA 276
2004 Henry Liaw, ARIZ 279
2005 Erik Olson, WASH 276
2006 Daniel Im, UCLA 277
2007 Jamie Lovemark, USC 269
2008 Creighton Honeck, ARIZ 281
* Lowest 72-hole individual total in
Pac-10 Championship history.