{"id":278897,"date":"2025-11-08T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:03:12","slug":"wvu-golf-wins-pearl-at-kalauao-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278897\/","title":{"rendered":"WVU Golf Wins Pearl at Kalauao Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 The West Virginia University golf team captured its third tournament championship this fall at the inaugural Pearl at Kalauoa Invitational in &#8220;Aiea, O&#8217;ahu, on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mountaineers finished the tournament at 21-under-par with rounds of 291-280-272=843. West Virginia shot 24-under-par in the final two rounds and defeated 17 teams in the field. UC San Diego was second at -10 and Augusta was third at -7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis tournament marks WVU&#8217;s third championship title in six tries this fall. The Mountaineers won the Island Resort Collegiate in Michigan on Sept. 1 and the Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational on Sept. 30.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIndividually, <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/kaleb-wilson\/19072\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19072\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleb Wilson<\/a> paced the Mountaineers finishing in third place at -8 with rounds of 73-67-68=208, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/nick-turowski\/19071\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19071\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Turowski<\/a> finished fifth at -7 with rounds of 76-70-63=209. Turowski&#8217;s 63 ties for the second-lowest round in school history. Wilson has posted Top 15 finishes in all six tournaments this fall, while Turowski recorded his fourth Top 5 finish of the fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-michael\/19074\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19074\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Michael<\/a> tied for 14th place at -1 with rounds of 71-72-72=215, <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-leach\/19068\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19068\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Leach<\/a> tied for 17th place at Even par with rounds of 72-71-73=216 and <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/westy-mccabe\/19069\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19069\" target=\"_blank\">Westy McCabe<\/a> tied for 29th place at +3 with rounds of 75-75-69=219. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/harrison-thompson\/19070\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19070\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Thompson<\/a> competed as an individual and tied for 23rd place at +1 with rounds of 73-75-69=217.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/give.wvu.edu\/campaign\/wvu-golf\/c426954\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Golf Enhancement Fund\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_x_300-GOLF_FUnd.png\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy for the guys, proud of their preparation and the way they competed this week,&#8221; coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/sean-covich\/4567\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4567\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Covich<\/a> said. &#8220;We got off to a slow start in round one, but they never gave up, kept battling and then played some phenomenal golf the last few rounds. This was a special team win and a great way to end the fall season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mountaineers closed out the fall with a 71-14-0 record, the most wins recorded this fall by any Division I college golf team. West Virginia will open its spring season on Feb. 2-3 at the Battle at Briar&#8217;s Creek in Johns Island, South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 The West Virginia University golf team captured its third tournament championship this fall at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-278897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}