{"id":427037,"date":"2026-01-21T05:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427037\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:20:43","slug":"arizona-mens-golf-are-the-2026-copper-cup-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427037\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Men&#8217;s Golf Are The 2026 Copper Cup Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     Arizona Men&#8217;s Golf wins the Copper Cup after defeating No.21 UCLA, 7-5 in the championship match.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats opened the day with alternate-shot foursomes and earned three of the four available points. <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/william-wistrand\/18704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18704\" target=\"_blank\">William Wistrand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matej-baca\/18697\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18697\" target=\"_blank\">Matej Baca<\/a> delivered an early 1-up victory, while <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/zach-pollo\/18701\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18701\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Pollo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/tianyi-xiong\/18702\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18702\" target=\"_blank\">Tianyi Xiong<\/a> followed with another 1-up win. Arizona picked up its most decisive foursome result from <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/taishi-moto\/18700\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18700\" target=\"_blank\">Taishi Moto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/filip-jakubcik\/18699\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18699\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Jakubcik<\/a>, who closed out their match 5&amp;4. The lone setback in foursomes came from the pairing of <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/dillon-dean\/18832\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18832\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Dean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/connor-hamm\/18698\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18698\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hamm<\/a>, who fell 5&amp;3.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona carried that momentum into singles play, winning four of the eight matches to clinch the overall result. <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/william-wistrand\/18704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18704\" target=\"_blank\">William Wistrand<\/a> turned in one of the most dominant performances of the day with a 7&amp;6 victory, while <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/connor-hamm\/18698\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18698\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hamm<\/a> added a 3&amp;2 win. <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/filip-jakubcik\/18699\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18699\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Jakubcik<\/a> continued his strong showing by earning a 1-up decision, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/zach-pollo\/18701\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18701\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Pollo<\/a> closed out his match 6&amp;5.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA earned singles points from Josh Kim, Tyler Loree, Alex Papayoanou, and Logan Kim, but Arizona&#8217;s depth across the lineup proved to be the difference.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWith the win over UCLA, the Wildcats capped a strong team performance highlighted by balanced scoring in both sessions. The Wildcats took down the No.7 and No.21 ranked teams to start the spring season with a win.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Arizona Men&#8217;s Golf wins the Copper Cup after defeating No.21 UCLA, 7-5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-427037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}