Upcoming Event: Men's Golf at William H. Tucker Intercollegiate on September 19, 2025
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Grand Canyon University Athletics
Monday, March 31
Ak-Chin Southern Dunes | Maricopa, Ariz.
Grand Canyon
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Cowboy Classic
Photo by: © Erik Dresser - 2025
Stacked field set for Cowboy Classic in Maricopa
3/30/2025 10:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Tourney offers 9 teams ranked in top 75, 2nd-to-last tune-up before WAC Championship
As the season draws closer to the WAC Championship in Payson, Arizona, Grand Canyon heads 50 miles south to Maricopa to compete in the Cowboy Classic on Monday and Tuesday.
With the GCU season's largest field of 21 teams, the Lopes will play at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club for the second time this season after opening the 2024 fall slate with a second-place showing in the Southern Dunes Invitational.
Four tournament teams are ranked in the Clippd Scoreboard top 50 with nine in the top 70. GCU enters as No. 50, the fourth-highest participat after No. 27 Long Beach State, No. 35 San Diego and No. 42 USC.
Other competing teams (with national ranking) include Kansas (51), Cincinnati (63), Iowa State (65), Pacific (66), Saint Mary's (70), Arkansas State (88), Wyoming (93), Utah Valley (122), UC Irvine (139), Utah State (146), CSU Fullerton (154), Â Gonzaga (162), Wichita State (168), Northern Colorado (207), CSUN (228), Weber State (232), Air Force (243), UT Arlington (269) and Southern Utah (282).
The Lopes' starting five features four players who earned a top-10 finish in Oregon last week, including graduate Tommaso Zorzetto, senior Kiko Coelho, and freshmen Matthew Diehl and Nixon Lauritzen. Sophomore Gavin O'Neill returns to the starting lineup.
Live results of the tournament can be found here.
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With the GCU season's largest field of 21 teams, the Lopes will play at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club for the second time this season after opening the 2024 fall slate with a second-place showing in the Southern Dunes Invitational.
Four tournament teams are ranked in the Clippd Scoreboard top 50 with nine in the top 70. GCU enters as No. 50, the fourth-highest participat after No. 27 Long Beach State, No. 35 San Diego and No. 42 USC.
Other competing teams (with national ranking) include Kansas (51), Cincinnati (63), Iowa State (65), Pacific (66), Saint Mary's (70), Arkansas State (88), Wyoming (93), Utah Valley (122), UC Irvine (139), Utah State (146), CSU Fullerton (154), Â Gonzaga (162), Wichita State (168), Northern Colorado (207), CSUN (228), Weber State (232), Air Force (243), UT Arlington (269) and Southern Utah (282).
The Lopes' starting five features four players who earned a top-10 finish in Oregon last week, including graduate Tommaso Zorzetto, senior Kiko Coelho, and freshmen Matthew Diehl and Nixon Lauritzen. Sophomore Gavin O'Neill returns to the starting lineup.
Live results of the tournament can be found here.
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