{"id":304809,"date":"2026-05-07T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:16:36","slug":"mens-golf-continues-to-pull-away-at-big-west-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304809\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Continues To Pull Away At Big West Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA QUINTA, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf had all five players shoot par or better, with four under par on the way to a -18 second round at the Big West Championship in a dominant second day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/240005\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day Two Results<\/a><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> continued to lead the tournament, following up his first round 67 with a 66 on day two to move to -11 for the tournament, three strokes in front of a pair in second place.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat duo included senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a>, who had the day&#8217;s best score for the Beach with a seven-under 65, picking up seven birdies without a bogey on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-cantlay\/9484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9484\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Cantlay<\/a> remained in the Top 5 with a second straight 69, and Krishnav Chopraa climbed into the Top 10 with a two-under par 70 as all four counting scores for the Beach in Round Two were under par. <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> had the day&#8217;s drop score, an even par 72 to highlight how strong the day was.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll five golfers for Long Beach State are now in the top ten as the Beach has a commanding lead in the championship, leading by 28 strokes over Cal Poly and Hawai&#8217;i, tied for second place at -2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State&#8217;s -18 was the program&#8217;s second-best ever mark against par as a team, besting a -15 shot at the John A Burns Intercollegiate in 2024.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State is well within reach of a fourth consecutive Big West Championship and returning once again to the NCAAs. The final round begins Tuesday morning, with live scoring through SCOREBOARD at <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/240005\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/240005\/scoring\/team<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA QUINTA, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf had all five players shoot par or better, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-304809","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\/304809","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=304809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}