Utah Golf Set for Bandon Dunes Championship

Sunday, March 11

Bandon, OR

All Day

University of Utah

Bandon Dunes Championship

3/9/2018 11:22 AM | Men's Golf

The Utes head to Oregon for the three-day event.

UTAH MEN'S GOLF at the Bandon Dunes Championship
DATE: Sunday-Tuesday, March 11-13, 2018
LOCATION: Pacific Dunes Course, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort | Bandon, Ore.
PAR/YARDAGE: Par 71 / 6,633 yards
LIVE SCORING: GolfStat.com
WEEKLY NOTES: Utah Men's Golf Notes

THIS WEEK
The Utah men's golf team is set to compete in the ninth annual Bandon Dunes Championship, hosted by Gonzaga University this Sunday through Tuesday, March 11-13. The three-day event will be held at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort with action taking place on the Pacific Dunes Course.

THE FIELD
Utah will compete in a field of 14 teams this weekend at the Bandon Dunes Championship. Along with the Utes and tournament host, Gonzaga, the field includes Arizona State, Boise State, Clemson, Denver, Idaho, Oregon, San Jose State, Santa Clara, Seattle, Southern Utah, UTEP, and Washington State.

THE COURSE
The Bandon Dunes Golf Resort includes four 18-hole courses in the Pacific Dunes, Bandon Dunes, Bandon Trails, and Old MacDonald courses. The Pacific Dunes Course, which will be played this weekend, was the second course built at the resort and is the highest ranked among the resort's four 18's.

To best utilize ocean frontage, designer Tom Doak came up with an unorthodox routing that includes four par 3's on the back nine. Holes seem to emerge from the landscape rather than being superimposed onto it, with rolling greens and rumpled fairways framed by rugged sand dunes and marvelously grotesque bunkers.

UTAH'S LINE-UP
Utah's line-up this week will consist of: Freshman Blake Tomlinson, junior Kyler Dunkle, freshman Tristan Mandur, sophomore Jordan Costello, and junior Nathan Wunderli,

LIVE SCORING
Live scoring for this week's Bandon Dunes Championship can be found at www.GolfStat.com or by clicking the "Live Stats" link on the Utah Golf schedule page at www.UtahUtes.com.

LAST TIME OUT
Utah returned to Arizona for the second straight week to compete in the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate last weekend. The Utes finished the two-day event in a tie for fifth place in the 12-team field with a combined score of 15-over par (282-303-294=879) at Desert Mountain's Outlaw Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Freshman Blake Tomlinson led the Utes after notching his first career top-five finish. Tomlinson placed in a tie for fourth place at 3-under par (64-75-74=213), just one stroke shy of first place. Freshman teammate Tristan Mandur also finished in the top-20, placing in a tie for 13^th place with a combined score of 1-over par (73-70-74=217).

GOING LOW
Blake Tomlinson registered a first-round score of 8-under par (64) last weekend at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate, which ties the lowest score under par all-time. The freshman's round of 64 also ranks tied for the second-lowest round in school history with teammate Kyler Dunkle, who recorded a round of 64 at the Mark Simpson Invitational back in September, and Dustin Pimm, who notched rounds of 64 twice during his career back in 2005 and 2006.

HERE BIRDIE, BIRDIE
•Blake Tomlinson registered 18 birdies at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate to lead the entire field of participants. Tomlinson ranks tied for 58^th in the nation with 79 total birdies on the season.
•Jordan Costello leads the Utes with 82 birdies on the season, which also ranks tied for 35^th in the nation. Costello carded 11 birdies last weekend.
•Tristan Mandur finished with 15 birdies at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate, which ranked fourth among the 69 participants last weekend.

QUOTABLE
"We are excited to compete in the Bandon Dunes Championship," said head coach Garrett Clegg. "We will be playing on the famed Pacific Dunes Golf Course, one of the best golf courses in the world. We are in a great time in the season. Everyone is competing well and playing good golf. Playing golf on a seaside links course with fescue grass is a lot different than competing on courses we typically see across the US. As a group, we need to be able to adapt to the different conditions. It will be an incredible week and we are excited to get to Oregon."

UP NEXT
The Utes will be back in action at Stanford's The Goodwin, which will be held in San Francisco, Calif. The Goodwin will take place over a three-day span, beginning on Thursday, March 29, and concluding on Saturday, March 31.