Men's golf set for Pac-10 Championship

April 27, 2011

<a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/photos/schools/asu/sports/m-golf/auto_pdf/… Pac-10 Conference's release on the 2011 Pac-10 Championship</a> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_new"><img src="http://grfx.cstv.com/graphics/icon-acrosmall.gif" border="0" alt="Get Acrobat Reader" width="9" height="10"></a><separator></separator> <separator></separator><a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/archive/asu-m-golf-finishes… to know how the Sun Devils did at past Pac-10 championships? Click here for easy access... </a><separator></separator> <separator></separator><a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/spec-rel/041911aaa.html">Cli… here for ASU men's golf statistics </a><separator></separator> <separator></separator>The No. 23 Arizona State men's golf team is competing in the 2011 Pac-10 Men's Golf Championships April 29-May 1 in Stanford, Calif. The 72-hole event will be held at the Stanford Golf Course (par 70/6,742 yards).<separator></separator>Teams will tee off on holes 1 and 10 all three days beginning at 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. Teams will play 36 holes on Friday, with the last tee time scheduled for 2:50 p.m.<separator></separator>Senior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/kennegard_jesper00.html"… Kennegard</a> took second in last year's Pac-10 Championship and tied for 13th in both 2009 and 2008. He finished in the top 10 twice this season has nine in his career.<separator></separator>Senior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/pinckney_scott00.html">S… Pinckney</a>, who tallied four straight top-10 finishes this season from Feb. 2 to March 13, is participating in his third Pac-10 Championship. This is the fourth Pac-10 Championship for senior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/byrne_james00.html">James Byrne</a>, who tied for third in the event his freshman year. His best tournament of this season was a ninth-place finish at the ASU Thunderbird.<separator></separator>Junior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/francis_philip00.html">P… Francis</a> tied for ninth in ASU's last tournament, the Western Intercollegiate, and has placed in the top 10 three times this season. This will be his second Pac-10 Championship, but his first as Sun Devil, after he tied for 16th at the 2008 event as a UCLA freshman. Senior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/buran_thomas00.html">Tho… Buran</a> has a pair of top-10 finishes this season and is competing in his first Pac-10 Championship. Senior <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/zetterwall_oscar00.html"… Zetterwall</a> is also competing his first Pac-10 Championship.<separator></separator>ASU took fourth in last year's Pac-10 Championship with a 19-under par 1401 (337-351-348-365), while Kennegard shot a 15-under par 269 (63-66-67-73) to finish just one stroke behind the leader.<separator></separator>This year's tournament features five other teams ranked in the top 25, including No. 2 UCLA, No. 17 USC, No. 19 California, No. 20 Stanford and No. 22 Oregon, as well as No. 31 Washington. Rankings according to the April 27 Golfstat poll.<separator></separator>Hole-by-hole live scoring of the event will be available at golfstat.com and results will be posted at the conclusion of each round on pac-10.org.<separator></separator>THE FIELD: Arizona, Arizona State, California, UCLA, USC, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington and Washington State.<separator></separator>VARIETY IS GOOD : ASU became the fifth school to take home the team title since 2004 when it won in 2008 as USC (2007), UCLA (2006), Washington (2005, 2009 and 2010) and Arizona (2004) all have taken home a trophy in the past seven tournaments.<separator></separator>ASU'S 2008 PAC-10 TITLE: At the 2008 Pac-10 Championships at The Meadow Club (par-71, 6,686 yards) in Fairfax, Calif., ASU, playing with three freshmen, two sophomores and a senior, captured its eighth Pac-10 title in 16 years under head coach <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/lein_randy00.html">Randy Lein</a> in a one-hole playoff over defending conference champion USC (#2 Golfstat/#3 Golfweek). ASU trailed by 16 to the Trojans after the first round. ASU shot 354-361-356-364 and tied with the Trojans (338-374-357-366) at 15-over par 1,435. The Pac-10 Championship counts the low five scores from the six-man teams.<separator></separator>PAC-10 SUCCESS AT ASU : Arizona State has now won 12 Pac-10 titles in its 32 seasons, including a conference record six straight from 1995-2000. In addition to the six straight Pac-10 titles, ASU's other five Pac-10 titles have come in 1979 (its first year in the league), 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2008. ASU tied for the league title in 2005 with Washington but lost on a tiebreaker formula, and the league decided to go to a playoff format after that season. In its past eight Pac-10 championships, ASU has finished first (2008), tied for first (2005), second (2004) third (2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009) and fourth (2010).<separator></separator>A STRAIGHT "LEIN" OF SUCCESS AT PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS: ASU coach <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/lein_randy00.html">Randy Lein</a> has led ASU to eight Pac-10 titles in his 18 seasons. ASU previously won titles in 1993, Lein's first year, and then won six straight from 1995-2000. ASU tied for first but lost in a tiebreaker in 2005, finished second in 2001 and 2004 and third in 1994, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and fourth in 2010. Since joining the Pac-10 in the 1978-79 school year, ASU has finished out of the top five just twice in its 32 championships (ninth in 2002 and sixth in 1983).<separator></separator>SUN DEVILS AS PAC-10 MEDALISTS: <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/casey_paul00.html">Paul Casey</a> won three straight Pac-10 titles from 1998-2000, which is the last time a Sun Devil won the title and is a conference record for consecutive Pac-10 titles. Other Sun Devils who have won the Pac-10 championship are Scott Johnson (1997), <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/mickelson_phil00.html">P… Mickelson</a> (1990), co-medalists Dan Forsman and Tony Grimes (1981), Jim Bertoncino (co-medalist in 1980) and co-medalists Scott Watkins and Dan Croonquist (1979).<separator></separator>PAC-10 TEAM CHAMPIONS (since 1990): 1990 Arizona State 1991 Arizona  1992 Stanford  1993 Arizona State 1994 Stanford  1995 Arizona State 1996 Arizona State 1997 Arizona State 1998 Arizona State 1999 Arizona State 2000 Arizona State 2001 USC  2002 USC  2003 UCLA  2004 Arizona  2005 Washington  2006 UCLA 2007 USC 2008 Arizona State 2009 Washington 2010 Washington<separator></separator>MOST PAC-10 TEAM TITLES SINCE 1979 (ASU joined the Pac-10 in the 1978-79 athletic season): ARIZONA STATE (12): 2008, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1990, 1989, 1981, 1979 USC (6): 2007, 2002, 2001, 1986, 1984, 1980 UCLA (5): 2006, 2003, 1985, 1983, 1982 WASHINGTON (4): 2010, 2009, 2005, 1988 ARIZONA (3): 2004, 1991, 1987 STANFORD (2): 1994, 1992<separator></separator>PAC-10 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS (since 1990): 1990 <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/mickelson_phil00.html">P… Mickelson</a>, ASU 278 1991 Manny Zerman, ARIZ 278  1992 Christian Cevaer, STAN 276  1993 Jason Gore, ARIZ 284  1994 Jason Gore, ARIZ 287  1995 Charlie Wi, CAL 279  1996 Tiger Woods, STAN 270  1997 Scott Johnson, ASU 278 1998 <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/casey_paul00.html">Paul Casey</a>, ASU 283 1999 <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/casey_paul00.html">Paul Casey</a>, ASU 265* 2000 <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/casey_paul00.html">Paul Casey</a>, ASU 265* 2001 Ricky Barnes, ARIZ 268  2002 Jim Seki, STAN 284  2003 John Merrick, UCLA 276  2004 Henry Liaw, ARIZ 279  2005 Erik Olson, WASH 276  2006 Daniel Im, UCLA 277  2007 Jamie Lovemark, USC 269 2008 Creighton Honeck, ARIZ 281  2009 Darren Wallace, WASH 277  2010 Eric Mina, CAL 268<separator></separator>*Lowest 72-hole individual total in Pac-10 Championship history<separator></separator>MOST CURRENT PLAYERS ON PGA TOUR: ARIZONA STATE (8): <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/casey_paul00.html">Paul Casey</a>, <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/jones_matt00.html">Matt Jones</a>, Billy Mayfair, <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/mickelson_phil00.html">P… Mickelson</a>, Pat Perez, <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/quinney_jeff00.html">Jeff Quinney</a>, <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/reavie_chez00.html">Chez Reavie</a>, Joey Snyder III UCLA (7): Kevin Chappell, Jay Delsing, Brandt Jobe, Scott McCarron, Parker McLachlin, John Merrick, Duffy Waldorf ARIZONA (6): Ricky Barnes, David Berganio, Jr., Jim Furyk, Robert Gamez, Ted Purdy, Rory Sabbatini STANFORD (4): Notah Begay III, Joseph Bramlett, Zack Miller, Tiger Woods CALIFORNIA (2): Peter Tomasulo, Charlie Wi USC (2): Jamie Lovemark, Kevin Stadler OREGON (1): Ben Crane WASHINGTON (1): Alex Prugh<separator></separator>

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