{"id":292824,"date":"2026-04-30T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:14:21","slug":"sacramento-state-uses-record-low-team-score-to-secure-mens-golf-trophy-smith-defeats-teammate-for-individual-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292824\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento State Uses Record-Low Team Score to Secure Men\u2019s Golf Trophy; Smith Defeats Teammate for Individual Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/bigskyconf.com\/documents\/2026\/4\/29\/\/_26_M_Golf_Final_Results_1_.pdf?id=9129\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. (Apr. 29, 2026) \u2013 The third and final round of the 2026 Big Sky Conference Men\u2019s Golf Championship had plenty of fireworks on Wednesday, culminating in the Sacramento State Hornets defending their title and raising the league\u2019s trophy as champs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Hornets fished play with a 23-under 841 (290, 270, 281) to set a new Big Sky Championship record for 54-hole team score.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat finish put them nine shots clear of the Idaho Vandals, who finished at 14-under.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Hornets will go on to represent the Big Sky Conference at NCAA Regionals. It also marked back-to-back titles, as Sacramento State won the 2024 championship before the league\u2019s one-year hiatus. In total, this marks Sac State\u2019s sixth Big Sky men\u2019s golf title since 1996.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorthern Colorado used a 9-under team score on Wednesday to jump up the leaderboard into third. Francis Marion (E), Weber State (+2) and Eastern Washington (+4) rounded out the field. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the individual side, the title came down to a playoff between a pair of teammates, with Sacramento State\u2019s Gabriel Smith and Jai Bahl both finishing competition at 9-under. Ultimately, on Hole No. 1, Smith secured a birdie to take home the league\u2019s top prize.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorthern Colorado Kaelen Dulany finished in third, shooting 7-under. Weber Sate\u2019s Matthew Wilson (-6) and Idaho\u2019s Samuel Johnson (-5) rounded out the league\u2019s All-Tournament Team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Selection Show for NCAA Men\u2019s Golf Regionals air May 6 on the Golf Channel.<br \/>\n\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Final Results \u00a0 LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. (Apr. 29, 2026) \u2013 The third and final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-292824","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\/292824","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=292824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}