{"id":259614,"date":"2026-04-09T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:45:31","slug":"mens-golf-finishes-april-with-asu-thunderbird-collegiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259614\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Finishes April With ASU Thunderbird Collegiate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 No. 28 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf will play in one final tournament prior to the Big West Championship, playing against eight other Top 100 teams as part of the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHosted by Arizona State, the tournament will be held over two days at the Papago Golf Club in Phoenix. Ranked No. 9 entering the week, the hosts are the top-ranked team in the field, but the nine teams feature plenty of depth, with New Mexico, UCLA, Utah, Colorado, San Diego, Oregon State and Grand Canyon competing along with ASU and the Beach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe March Big West Golfer of the Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alejandro-de-castro-piera\/9486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9486\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro de Castro Piera<\/a>, will again lead the lineup. Coming off of three Top 10 finishes, including the individual championship at the Arizona Wildcat Intercollegiate in the team&#8217;s last trip to Arizona. Those results have helped de Castro push all the way up to No. 35 in the individual rankings nationally.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a> will play second, coming in with the team&#8217;s second-best stroke average on the season at 70.7. Huggins had a Top 5 finish earlier this spring at the R.E. Lamkin Invitational in San Diego.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/steen-zeman\/9491\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9491\" target=\"_blank\">Steen Zeman<\/a> will play third, while senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-cantlay\/9484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9484\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Cantlay<\/a> will play fourth following a Top 20 finish in the team&#8217;s last competition at The Goodwin. Junior Krishnav Chopraa rounds out the lineup for the Beach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAdditionally, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/norwin-gohm\/9488\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9488\" target=\"_blank\">Norwin Gohm<\/a> will be playing as an individual. Gohm is competing in his fourth tournament this season, with his previous best coming at the Les Fowler Individual Invitational in Colorado, where he placed in a tie for 22nd overall. His best round this season came at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate, where he started the tournament with a two-under 68.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe tournament will feature two rounds on Friday, April 10 before a final round on Saturday, April 11. Live scoring throughout the tournament will be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238883\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238883\/scoring\/team<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 No. 28 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf will play in one final tournament prior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-259614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}