Maybe it has something to do with John Wooden’s inescapable aphorisms immortalized all over the walls of the Wooden Center and the winning culture that he brought as a scientific formula to Westwood. Maybe it has to do with the sudden emergence of UCLA as a football powerhouse. Or maybe it has to do with […]
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UCLA men’s golf ends championship run against LSU
UCLA men’s golf, a team that won one tournament all year, needed two birdies on the 18th green at the NCAA regionals to squeak into the championship tournament. The Bruins entered the NCAA championship tournament with a low seed and were just happy to be there. By how their season had gone, it would be […]
UCLA men’s golf well-prepared for high winds at NCAAs
A men’s golf season that saw the team face unexpectedly adverse weather conditions will fittingly be concluded in Kansas, a state known for its wind and trailer-park-plowing tornadoes. This weekend, UCLA men’s golf will play in the NCAA men’s golf championship at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan. The championship tournament will last from […]
Pac-12 challenges prepare men’s golf for upcoming NCAAs
It wasn’t some cartoonish desert mirage, making them seem closer than they were. What the leaderboard reflected was accurate. By the end of the 36-hole day one, the Bruins found themselves 24 strokes behind eventual winners Stanford. The leaderboard read Stanford (-2) and UCLA (+22) as darkness descended on the desert, suspending play. Nothing got […]
Men’s golf finishes seventh at Pac-12 championships
UCLA men’s golf finished seventh at the Pac-12 Championship held at The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Ariz. this weekend. Over the 72-hole weekend tournament in the desert, the UCLA Bruins shot a team score of 1,489 (+49), well short of tournament winners Stanford at 1,438 (-2). UCLA sophomore Lorens Chan helped lead the Bruins, […]
UCLA men’s golf heads out to desert for Pac-12 championship
In the desert climate of Arizona’s Sonoran, where on an average high in late April heat can be seen rising in waves from the dirt up to the needle tips of cacti, the lushly verdant golf course stands out. And if it wasn’t for the panoramic view of the desert from the course, a golfer […]
UCLA men’s golf claims title at Redhawk Invitational
Chambers Bay, a course superb enough to claim home to the PGA’s U.S. Open in 2015, featured a final day of Bruin low scores and UCLA men’s golf’s first tournament title of the season – adding sports significance to the business and real estate adage: “Location. Location. Location.” “(Chambers Bay) was one of the reasons […]