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STOCKTON, Calif. – Following Monday’s opening round at the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational, the UC San Diego men’s golf team is in 11th place.
Pacific is hosting the 18-team tournament at The Reserve at Spanos Park. The second round is set for Tuesday and the third and final round is Wednesday.
The Tritons are 6-over par on the par 73, 7132-yard course. Freshman Cole Kim shot 1-under par today and is 12th in the 99 player field. He had five birdies during his round.
Seattle is atop the field at 7-under. Host Pacific is one stroke behind in second and Eastern Washington and UC Santa Barbara are tied for third at 2-under.
Individually, Dylan Ma from UCSB is in the lead at 5-under.
This is the fourth appearance for UC San Diego at the Pacific Invitational.
TRITON RESULTS
tie-12. Cole Kim, -1 (71)
tie-31. Justin Gill, +1 (73)
tie-45. Hanjie Yu, +2 (74)
tie-63. Jerry Zhu, +4 (76)
tie-78. Ethan Lien, +6 (78)
UP NEXT
Tuesday’s second round starts at 7:30 a.m. UC San Diego’s first group tees off at 9:09 a.m. The Tritons will be playing alongside competitors from Saint Mary’s and Denver.
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions III and II and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world’s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.