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During the past six months, golf has taken them to Georgia, Hawaii, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.
But on Wednesday, the fifth-ranked Bruins competed a hop, skip and a jump away from their Westwood dorms and apartments, crossing Wilshire Boulevard to compete for the Pac-12 men’s golf championship at the Los Angeles Country Club.
For the UCLA men’s golf team, the journey to being crowned Pac-12 champions begins today at the Los Angeles Country Club. The Bruins will send six golfers to the tournament: seniors Pontus Widegren and Pedro Figueiredo, junior Anton Arboleda, redshirt sophomore Manav Shah, sophomore Jay Hwang and freshman Jonathan Garrick.
The distinctive hiss of a golf ball slicing through the air is commonplace during a Thursday morning at the Bel-Air Country Club.
They say familiarity breeds contempt, as if UCLA and USC needed any more reasons to dislike each other.
The UCLA men’s golf team came out hotter than a newly forged golf club to start the Western Intercollegiate Championship Saturday, shooting its way to a lead over second-place California and the rest of the Pac-12-heavy field.
Awkward, nervous, inexperienced and excitable – stereotyping freshmen will always be a favored pastime of the seasoned upperclassmen, many of whom forget their own wide eyes and youthful exhilaration.
Everything is bigger in Texas, a reality even the golfing world cannot escape. But for the No. 5 UCLA men’s golf team, the 36-hole Aggie Invitational was much anticipated, as the Bruins’ trip to the Lone Star State marked the conclusion of nearly a month without team competition. In spite of a strong final round, […]
