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Friday, April 25
Chaparral Pines | Payson, Ariz.
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Lopes aim for 3-peat at WAC Championship in Payson
4/24/2025 10:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
GCU to compete at Chaparral Pines in 3-day affair for NCAA bid
Grand Canyon heads to familiar territory in Payson at the Golf Club at Chaparral Pines, the site of the Lopes' 2024 WAC Championship repeat victory.
The top-seeded team by a wide margin, GCU aims to clinch its third consecutive WAC Championship trophy and head to an NCAA regional for the third consecutive year. The Lopes won their first-ever WAC title in 2023 at the Boulder Creek Golf Club and followed that up with a back-to-back title that was clinched on Nicky Kling's riveting 10-foot, championship-sealing putt on Chaparral Pines' 18th hole.
Entering the weekend with its best Clippd Scoreboard ranking of the past three WAC Championships, the Lopes will rely on its NCAA regional-experienced players and freshman stars.
GCU graduate Tommaso Zorzetto will compete in his third straight WAC Championship, earning a spot on All-WAC first team last season after finishing in a tie for 18th in Payson. Zorzetto recently won WAC Golfer of the Week after a top-10 finish at the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate in the regular-season finale.
Lopessophomore Gavin O'Neill, the first freshman in program history to compete at an NCAA regional, will participate in his second WAC Championship, while senior Kiko Coelho and the freshman duo of Matthew Diehl and Nixon Lauritzen compete in their first WAC tournament. Diehl enters as the highest-ranked Lope in the starting five, ranking 112th among Division I golfers.
GCU's Clippd Scoreboard team ranking is No. 51, which is 75 spots higher than the next team in the WAC field in Utah Valley. The nine conference teams with their rankings in parentheses are:
The top-seeded team by a wide margin, GCU aims to clinch its third consecutive WAC Championship trophy and head to an NCAA regional for the third consecutive year. The Lopes won their first-ever WAC title in 2023 at the Boulder Creek Golf Club and followed that up with a back-to-back title that was clinched on Nicky Kling's riveting 10-foot, championship-sealing putt on Chaparral Pines' 18th hole.
Entering the weekend with its best Clippd Scoreboard ranking of the past three WAC Championships, the Lopes will rely on its NCAA regional-experienced players and freshman stars.
GCU graduate Tommaso Zorzetto will compete in his third straight WAC Championship, earning a spot on All-WAC first team last season after finishing in a tie for 18th in Payson. Zorzetto recently won WAC Golfer of the Week after a top-10 finish at the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate in the regular-season finale.
Lopessophomore Gavin O'Neill, the first freshman in program history to compete at an NCAA regional, will participate in his second WAC Championship, while senior Kiko Coelho and the freshman duo of Matthew Diehl and Nixon Lauritzen compete in their first WAC tournament. Diehl enters as the highest-ranked Lope in the starting five, ranking 112th among Division I golfers.
GCU's Clippd Scoreboard team ranking is No. 51, which is 75 spots higher than the next team in the WAC field in Utah Valley. The nine conference teams with their rankings in parentheses are:
- GCU (51)
- Utah Valley (126)
- Utah Tech (129)
- Seattle U (141)
- Abilene Christian (142)
- California Baptist (186)
- Tarleton State (194)
- UT Arlington (272)
- Southern Utah (284)
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