Men's Golf

Gophers continue spring season struggles at Braveheart Classic

By John Hageman |
03/02/2010
Minnesota finished ninth of 15 teams with a 44-over par 908 in the tournament.

Gophers take 4th in match play

By John Hageman |
02/14/2010
Only one Minnesota golfer finished the event with a winning record.

Director of golf Brad James resigns

By John Hageman |
01/17/2010
James is taking a job in his home country of Australia.

Gophers end fall season

By John Hageman |
10/25/2009
Minnesota finished in a tie for 13th at the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate

Gophers still on the hunt for a victory

By John Hageman |
10/13/2009
Minnesota again finished in the middle of the pack.

Pisani leads Gophers yet again as men finish 8th

By John Hageman |
10/05/2009
Also, freshman Erik Van Rooyen notched a hole-in-one.

Men finish fifth at Wolverine Invitational

By John Hageman |
09/27/2009
Senior Ben Pisani led the Gophers at 6-under which was good for seventh place.

Ben Pisani finds himself in Minnesota

By John Hageman |
09/22/2009
He is one of four foreign-born players on the golf team.

Gophers third in season opener

By John Hageman |
09/14/2009
Ben Pisani's course record 65 on Sunday was topped Monday by medalist Kelly Kraft of SMU.

Gophers finish round one in third

By John Hageman |
09/13/2009
Minnesota senior Ben Pisani set the course record at Spring Hill Golf Course with a 7-under 65.

Men and women’s golf prepare for weekend openers

By John Hageman |
09/09/2009
The Gophers men have not won the season opener since 2005; the women are coming off their best season statistically in their history.

Despite a tough spring, Rask and Almstrom qualify for regionals

By Austin Cumblad |
05/09/2008
The Minnesota men's golf team will miss the NCAA championships for only the third time in the last 11 seasons, but two Gophers players still have a chance to represent their school in West Lafayette, Ind., as individual competitors...

Golfing Baghdad's Green Zone: the Baghdad open at a course with real bunkers

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05/07/2008
BAGHDAD (AP) - The weight of the 9-iron felt just right. My first swing off the first tee was smooth and the ball sailed straight and true. For a brief moment I forgot where I was. Then I gazed down the fairway - actually just a few clumps of grass...

Event put on to expand golf base

By Austin Cumblad |
04/29/2008
Minnesota fans are accustomed to seeing Goldy Gopher on the field, on the court and on the ice, but in less than two weeks, he'll be seen somewhere less typical: on the course. Young golfers from all over the Twin Cities will get to see how talented Goldy is with a club in his paws Saturday at the second...

Late Sunday charge falls short for Minn.

By Austin Cumblad |
04/28/2008
It was a valiant Sunday charge, but in the end, the Minnesota men's golf team came up just short. The Gophers sat just two back of Michigan State as junior Victor Almstrom and his group, the last on the course, stepped up to the 18th tee....

Conference tournament is last chance for Gophers to make NCAA regionals

By Austin Cumblad |
04/25/2008
The Minnesota men's golf team has qualified for NCAA regional competition 14 straight times, but it needs nothing less than a defense of its Big Ten title this weekend to keep that streak alive. The Gophers take the course today at the Forest Akers ...

New rule could keep Minn. out of NCAAs

By Austin Cumblad |
04/22/2008
It seems counterintuitive for a golf team to worry about its win-loss record, but thanks to a rule implemented last summer by the NCAA, that's exactly what the Minnesota men's golf team has to do. The much-debated .500 rule was implemented last August...

Minnesota blown away at last pre-Big Ten Tournament

By Austin Cumblad |
04/21/2008
In its final tournament before the all-important Big Ten Championships, the Minnesota men's golf team certainly didn't make the progress it was hoping for. A year after tying for No. 1 as a team, the Gophers limped to a 16th place finish out...

Regular season finale a tough one

By Austin Cumblad |
04/18/2008
The Minnesota women's golf team is down to its final tournament of the regular season and, for the second straight time, will be seeing a number of Big Ten opponents just a week before the conference championship. The Gophers will remain...

New rule means 15th consecutive NCAA bid in jeopardy for Gophers

By Austin Cumblad |
04/15/2008
Coming into the 2007-2008 season, the Minnesota men's golf team had appeared in the NCAA Regionals for 14 straight years, but a lackluster spring and a newly implemented NCAA rule has put that streak in serious jeopardy. The new rule ...