{"id":679034,"date":"2026-05-19T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:42:09","slug":"wildcats-atop-the-leaderboard-after-round-one-of-ncaa-marana-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679034\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats Atop The Leaderboard After Round One of NCAA Marana Regional"},"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 completed the first round of the NCAA Marana Regional on Monday at The Gallery Golf Club, finishing the day tied for first place at 11-under as a team. The Wildcats put together one of the top rounds of the opening day and will head into the second round firmly in the top five to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way for Arizona was <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/filip-jakubcik\/18699\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18699\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Jakubcik<\/a>, who carded a 5-under 67 to finish the opening round tied for third individually. Jakubcik recorded seven birdies on the day, and capped off a 5-under back nine with a birdie on the drivable 17th.<\/p>\n<p><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\/taishi-moto\/18700\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18700\" target=\"_blank\">Taishi Moto<\/a> each posted rounds of 3-under 69 and are tied for seventh overall after 18 holes. Wistrand tallied four birdies during his round, while Moto highlighted his scorecard with five birdies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/zach-pollo\/18701\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18701\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Pollo<\/a> added an even-par 72 for the Wildcats and sits tied for 28th individually heading into round two. <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/tianyi-xiong\/18702\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18702\" target=\"_blank\">Tianyi Xiong<\/a> rounded out Arizona&#8217;s lineup with a 2-over 74 in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/filip-jakubcik\/18699\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18699\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Jakubcik<\/a> is tied for the lowest par four scoring average in round one after playing them 4-under today. His seven birdies on the day was the second most in the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/taishi-moto\/18700\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18700\" target=\"_blank\">Taishi Moto<\/a> played the challenging par threes 2-under which was second best today.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Arizona will tee off at 7:00am PT for round two.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Arizona Men&#8217;s Golf completed the first round of the NCAA Marana Regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-679034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}