{"id":288807,"date":"2026-04-27T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288807\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:15:07","slug":"sacramento-state-holds-one-shot-lead-following-18-holes-at-mens-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288807\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento State Holds One-Shot Lead Following 18 Holes at Men\u2019s Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/242923\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. (Apr. 27, 2026) \u2013 The first 18 holes of competition are in the books at the 2026 Big Sky Conference Men\u2019s Golf Championship at The Wigwam, where Sacramento State holds a one-shot lead over the rest of the field.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Hornets carded a 2-over 290 on Monday to enter Tuesday\u2019s action one shot ahead of Idaho (+3). The top-four teams in the field are very compressed, with Northern Colorado sitting at 5-over and Francis Marion carding 6-over as a unit.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWeber State (+11) and Eastern Washington (+15) round out the field in Litchfield Park.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOn the individual leaderboard, Sacramento State\u2019s Gabriel Smith currently holds the lead at 4-under through 18 holes. Smith is a Second Team All-Conference performer for the Hornets. He has a two-shot lead over Idaho\u2019s Josh McCartain, who shot 2-under a day removed from being named Big Sky Player of the Year. Northern Colorado\u2019s Cooper Tate rounded out the group of players under par at 1-under after 18 holes of play.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBoth Idaho\u2019s Samuel Johnson and Northern Colorado\u2019s Thomas Barnes Grimes sit at even for the tournament.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCompetition at The Wigwam will continue tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. MT \/ 6:30 a.m. PT with Round Two of the 2026 Big Sky Championship.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow the Big Sky Conference (@BigSkyConf) on X, Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky, YouTube and TikTok for all the latest news around the league and use the hashtag #ExperienceElevated to stay connected.&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Live Results LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. (Apr. 27, 2026) \u2013 The first 18 holes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-288807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288807","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=288807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}