{"id":440080,"date":"2026-01-27T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:01:11","slug":"cal-surges-into-tie-for-fifth-on-day-one-of-the-nit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440080\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Surges Into Tie for Fifth on Day One of the NIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__byline\">MGOLF1\/26\/2026 7:53 PM | By: Cal Athletics<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subheadline\">The Bears shoot nine under par before play is suspended due to darkness<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tTUCSON- California men&#8217;s golf jumped up the leaderboard, closing out the first day of the N.I.T. in a tie for fifth place, before play was suspended in the second round due to darkness.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter shooting an even par 72 in the first round, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ziqin-zhou\/24071\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24071\" target=\"_blank\">Ziqin Zhou<\/a> led the Bears with five birdies in his first 11 holes of round two before play was suspended. He finished the day alone in 10th place. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/xihuan-chang\/26690\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26690\" target=\"_blank\">Xihuan Chang<\/a> wasn&#8217;t far behind his teammate, shooting a two under 70 in the first round, finishing the day at three under par, in a tie for 21st.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter turning in a one over 73 in round one, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/trevor-cox\/26689\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26689\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Cox<\/a> carded two birdies in his first 11 holes of round two, finishing the day at even par. Redshirt sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/sihao-cong\/24062\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24062\" target=\"_blank\">Sihao Cong<\/a> had a tough first round, shooting a four over 76, but turned it around in the second with four birdies to finish the day at one over par.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRedshirt junior <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/charlie-bundy\/24579\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24579\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Bundy<\/a>, playing as an individual, posted a one under par 71 in round one, before carding four birdies in round two to finish the day at three under par in a tie for 21st place.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears finished the first round shooting a one over par 289, and are currently 10 under par through 11 holes in round two. The second round will continue tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. PT.<br \/>\n\u00a0\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; MGOLF1\/26\/2026 7:53 PM | By: Cal Athletics &#13; &#13; The Bears shoot nine under par before play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-440080","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\/440080","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=440080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}