Men's Golf

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  • Brian Deutsch
Mar. 09, 2007
Competition will be at its finest this weekend as the Minnesota men's golf team plays in the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship in Las Vegas. The 54-hole tournament starts Friday at 8 a.m. PST...
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  • Brian Deutsch
Feb. 28, 2007
The Minnesota men's golf team used three sub-par performances from freshman Ben Pisani and seniors Bronson La'Cassie and Niall Turner to finish in seventh place at the Puerto Rico Classic. A difficult course and a field that included...
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  • Brian Deutsch
Feb. 23, 2007
The Minnesota men's and women's golf teams emerge from hibernation this weekend to start up spring play. And while most University students are likely trudging through snow this weekend, the two Gophers teams will be competing in Puerto Rico...
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  • Amber Schadewald
Oct. 16, 2006
If Minnesota's men's golfers hope to play on the PGA Tour in the future, this week's tournament offers the perfect place to prepare...
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  • Brian Deutsch
Oct. 05, 2006
If the men's golf team returns to the NCAA Championships this year, the Gophers have to hope that this weekend's tournament does not repeat itself.
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Sep. 26, 2006
The Minnesota men's golf team was unable to improve its national ranking this weekend, finishing in eighth place at the star-studded Fighting Illini Invitational. The 12-team tournament promised to be a showdown between the country's top programs, including No. 1 defending national champion Oklahoma State.
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Sep. 22, 2006
When the men's golf team heads to Illinois this weekend, they will face some of the toughest competition they will see all year. The Gophers will compete in the Fighting Illini Invitational at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Champaign, Ill. The tournament will begin 7:30 a.m. Sunday and conclude Monday afternoon. The country club boasts such tournament champions as Walter Hagen, Jack Nicklaus and the winner of the 2003 U.S. Open, Jim Furyk.
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Sep. 18, 2006
The Minnesota men's golf team was unable to repeat last year's performance at the Gopher Invitational this weekend at the Spring Hill Golf Club. The Gophers shot a 30-over par 894 finishing five shots behind Stanford in the 54-hole tournament, which had chilling temperatures and high winds. Minnesota got off to a slow start Saturday morning but came back strong that afternoon to lead the tournament by two strokes over Stanford and Southern Methodist University going into Sunday.
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Sep. 15, 2006
The Minnesota men's golf team will kick off the fall season at the Gopher Invitational this weekend. The Gophers have never lost this tournament, and Saturday, they will defend their perfect 1-0 record. The 15th-ranked Gophers will host the second annual tournament at the Spring Hill Golf Club in Wayzata Sept. 16 to 17.
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Sep. 08, 2006
If the Minnesota women's golf team hopes to improve on last year's finish at the Wisconsin Invitational, it will have to do it without head coach Katie Hanneman.
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Jul. 26, 2006
The University men's golf team is on a roll. Last week two Gophers, sophomore Andrew Paulson and junior Clayton Rask, finished one-two at the 2006 Minnesota Golf Association Amateur Championship at Midland Hills County Club in St. Paul. "It's incredible," coach Brad James said of the one-two finish at the 103rd MGA Amateur Championship. "It's the first time it has ever been done in the history of Gopher golf."
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  • Robert Mews
Jul. 12, 2006
It was just more than a month ago that the Minnesota men's golf team wrapped up its season with a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. That finish has earned the Gophers a pair of invitations to two high-profile tournaments next season - the Callaway Golf Collegiate Match Play Championship and the 2006 Golfweek/Ping Preview.
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  • C.J. Spang
Jun. 07, 2006
Out of 30 teams and 156 golfers, after four days and 16 rounds of golf, the difference between Minnesota's men's golf team and a national championship was just four strokes. The Gophers shot a 5-under par 1,147 to finish in a tie for third place with Wake Forest at this weekend's 2006 NCAA Championships in Sunriver, Ore.
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  • C.J. Spang
May. 31, 2006
In the past nine years only eight squads have made more appearances in the NCAA Championships than Minnesota's men's golf team. But in that same span, only one of those schools -Georgia - has won more titles than the Gophers, winning in 1999 and 2005. Minnesota won it all in 2002.
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  • C.J. Spang
May. 24, 2006
Even in a field that included four of the country's top 10 collegiate teams, an average weekend ended the men's golf team's two-year absence from the NCAA Championships. At the Central Regional Championship at Sand Ridge Golf Club in Chardon, Ohio, the Gophers finished in sixth place with a 22-over par 874 to earn one of 10 spots in the NCAA Championships.
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