{"id":868033,"date":"2026-10-02T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868033\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:12:30","slug":"former-cougars-lead-utah-ties-at-bank-of-utah-championship-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868033\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cougars lead Utah ties at Bank of Utah Championship \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The best the locals had to offer in first round play were middle-of-the-pack performances at the Bank of Utah Black Deseret PGA Tour event in Ivins on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ogden natives and former BYU stars Zac Blair and Patrick Fishburn fired 5-under par 66s and joined former Cougar Tyson Shelley in a tie for 26th to lead players with local ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They finished four shots behind leader Zach Bauchou, whose first-round card of 9-under 62 was a shot better than nine other players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kihei Akina, the BYU sophomore and member of this summer\u2019s USA Walker Cup team in Ireland, shot 4-under 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Amateur and Utahn Boston Bracken (Arizona State) shot 2-under par 69 to finish one shot ahead of former BYU players Zac Johnson, Rhett Rasmussen and two-time Utah State Amateur champion Bowen Mauss, who is also now competing at Arizona State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Finau, the most accomplished local, struggled Thursday. On No. 18, he hit his wedge shot short of the green and it came rolling back toward his feet.\u00a0 He settled for a bogey six and finished T80 with a 1-under par 70 with Johnson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former Lone Peak and BYU player Carson Lundell finished even par 70, and former Cougar Rhett Rasmussen shot a +1 72.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best the locals had to offer in first round play were middle-of-the-pack performances at the Bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[40544,427,99],"class_list":["post-868033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-byu-cougars","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868033","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=868033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}