Gone to Texas – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. — Following a historic Big Match win on Thursday night, Stanford males’s golf is again on the highway, heading to the Lone Star State for a return journey to the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational Presented by Charles Schwab from September 29-30. 

THE COURSE » The storied Colonial Country Club serves because the monitor for this season’s Invitational showcasing a par-70, 7,289-yard structure that has held PGA Tour custom for the reason that Nineteen Forties. 

Colonial Country Club hosts the event for the eighth time in its historical past and second time since course renovations passed off in 2023. With notable stretches reminiscent of “The Horrible Horseshoe” (holes 3-5) and the “Unlucky 13,” Colonial Country Club serves as the proper setting for an early season problem for a few of the nation’s prime faculty packages. 

THE FIELD » This season’s 15-team subject boasts 13 groups ranked within the Bushnell/Golfweek Division I Top 25 heading into the weekend. 

Those partaking on this 12 months’s occasion embrace No. 1 Auburn, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 5 Texas, No. 6 Vanderbilt, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 8 Virginia, No. 11 Alabama, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 16 Texas A&M, No. 18 Georgia Tech, No. 19 Texas Tech, No. 20 Pepperdine, No. 21 Georgia, Stanford and hosts TCU. 

TOURNAMENT FORMAT » The 54-hole event will likely be performed beneath the play 5, maintain 4 format over two days. Monday’s 36-hole shotgun begin will start at 8 a.m. CT, whereas Tuesday’s last spherical tee occasions are additionally set for as early as 8 a.m CT.

THE CARDINAL LINEUP » Hitting the hyperlinks for Stanford contains the identical lineup the Cardinal ushered out for the season-opener at Olympia Fields. TK Chantananuwat leads the Cardinal on the No. 1 slot, adopted by Jay Leng and Nathan Wang. Edan Cui is within the No. 4 slot for the Cardinal whereas Dean Greyserman heads out at No. 5 following his walk-off win on Friday. 

STANFORD AT THE BEN HOGAN COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL » Stanford heads again to Colonial having positioned in the midst of a loaded, 15-team pack final season. TK Chantananuwat led the way in which for the Cardinal with a T-19 end having turned in a 3-over, 213 card. Elsewhere Jay Leng and Ethan Gao each grabbed top-30 finishes, ending the event at 5-over, 215. 

BACK TO BACK AT THE BIG MATCH » In a 19-hole thriller at Menlo Country Club, Stanford retained its Big Match title for the primary time, incomes a 3.5-3.5 tiebreak winner courtesy of the duo of Megha Ganne and Dean Greyserman. With each golfers incomes nice method pictures on the playoff 18th gap, Ganne secured the tiebreaker with a roughly 50 foot putt to offer the Cardinal the win. Ganne and Greyserman secured a 3&2 win for Stanford whereas the Cardinal additionally earned factors with 4&3 choices from Edan Cui/Leigh Chien and Nathan Wang/Andrea Revuelta. 

LIVE SCORING » Live scoring for the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational introduced by Charles Schwab will likely be obtainable on Scoreboard by Clippd with reside protection of the occasion on Twitter and Instagram at @StanfordMGolf.

ALL-ACC NATHAN » In his first season on The Farm, Nathan Wang had a stellar season culminating within the Cardinal’s first-ever ACC accolade with the junior being named to the All-ACC Team. Wang earned 4 top-20 finishes in the course of the season and led the Cardinal with a 70.97 scoring common in 30 aggressive rounds. Placing T-17 at Stanford’s debut within the ACC Championships, Wang earned his finest end of the season on the Western Collegiate putting T-5 at 5-under, 205, whereas additionally aiding the Cardinal to postseason golf for the Twenty sixth-consecutive season. 

FIRST YEAR SUCCESS » In their first season on The Farm, TK Chantananuwat and Jay Leng has great success for the Cardinal. Chantananuwat completed the season with 5 top-20 finishes together with a season-best eighth-place end at The Western Intercollegiate because the Cardinal took runners-up at its annual look at Pasatiempo. Leng additionally had a decent freshman 12 months, incomes 4 top-20 finishes together with his finest outing being a T-12 end at The Goodwin. Both gamers have been two of solely three gamers (Nathan Wang) to compete in each competitors final season and the one freshman to take action.

THE SUMMER OF DEAN » Dean Greyserman enters his senior season on The Farm following an excellent summer season season again on the east coast. Greyserman, who appeared in three competitions within the 2024-25 season for Stanford, gained two tournaments over the summer season culminating in incomes an computerized bid to the a hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Amateur Championship with a 3&1 win on the 123rd Met Amateur Championship in early August. Greyserman additionally took the highest spot on the seventieth Ike in July to kickstart MGA competitions. 

FRESH FACES » A comparatively younger squad, Stanford welcomes two highly-touted recruits for the 2025-26 season in Edan Cui and Cooper Stearns. Cui enters his freshman season having been ranked No. 41 within the Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings and was the seventh-highest participant within the state of California following a win and 4 top-10 finishes on the AJGA circuit. Stearns involves Stanford having been a multi-sport athlete at Irvine High School in golf and basketball. The 2025 Orange County Boys Athlete of the Year, Stearns was ranked No. 326 within the AJGA rankings and earned his lone junior win on the Los Angeles City Junior Championship.