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15th MONTANA STATE Spanos Center 2:00 p.m.

17th SOUTHERN UTAH Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

20th @ Iona New Rochelle, N.Y. 9:00 a.m.

22nd @ Monmouth N.J. West Long Branch, N.J. 12:00 a.m.

4th @ Portland Portland, Ore. 7:00 p.m.

6th @ Portland State Portland, Ore. 2:00 p.m.

10th SAN FRANCISCO Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

13th SANTA CLARA Spanos Center 2:00 p.m.

22nd @ Fresno State Fresno, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

29th ST. MARY’S Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

2nd @ Cal State Northridge * Northridge, Calif. 4:00 p.m.

4th @ Cal State Fullerton * Fullerton, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

7th CAL POLY* Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

9th SANTA BARBARA * Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

16th @ UC Irvine * Irvine, Calif. TBA

20th CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD Spanos Center 5:00 p.m.

23rd @ UC Davis * Davis, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

27th UC IRVINE * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

30th UC RIVERSIDE (PINK GAME) Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

4th @ UC Santa Barbara * Santa Barbara, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

6th @ Cal Poly * San Luis Obispo, Calif. TBA

11th UC DAVIS * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

13th @ Sacramento State * Sacramento, Calif. 2:00 p.m.

20th LONG BEACH STATE * Spanos Center 5:00 p.m.

25th @ UC Riverside * Riverside, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

27th @ Long Beach State * Long Beach, Calif. TBA

4th CAL STATE FULLERTON * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

6th CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE * Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

Big West Conference Tournament

10th Opening Round Anaheim, Calif. TBA

11th Quarterfinals Anaheim, Calif. TBA

12th Semifinals Anaheim, Calif. TBA

13th Championship Anaheim, Calif. TBA

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#11 jasmine DANA senior|guard|bakersfield, ca

#31 eliza DY sophomore|guard|chino hills, ca

#24 jennifer FATH junior|guard|carrollton, tx

#34 emma HEAD senior|post|san diego, ca

#22 erica McKENZIE freshman|guard|sparks, nv

#10 claire McLEOD junior|guard|melbourne, aust.

#4 kendall RODRIGUEZ freshman|forward|la habra, ca

#23 jordan ROGERS freshman|forward|sparks, nv

#20 andrea SWANSON sophomore|forward|littleton, co

#32 shantel THOMAS junior|forward|sacramento, ca

#33 christina THOMPSON sophomore|forward|sacramento, ca

#21 gretchan TIERNAN junior|guard|roseville, ca

#2 arielle WHITE junior|guard|los angeles, ca

lynneROBERTShead coach

alishaVALAVANISassociate head coach

assistant coachjustinWILSON

bradleyDAVISassistant coach

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15th MONTANA STATE Spanos Center 2:00 p.m.

17th SOUTHERN UTAH Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

20th @ Iona New Rochelle, N.Y. 9:00 a.m.

22nd @ Monmouth N.J. West Long Branch, N.J. 12:00 a.m.

4th @ Portland Portland, Ore. 7:00 p.m.

6th @ Portland State Portland, Ore. 2:00 p.m.

10th SAN FRANCISCO Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

13th SANTA CLARA Spanos Center 2:00 p.m.

22nd @ Fresno State Fresno, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

29th ST. MARY’S Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

2nd @ Cal State Northridge * Northridge, Calif. 4:00 p.m.

4th @ Cal State Fullerton * Fullerton, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

7th CAL POLY* Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

9th SANTA BARBARA * Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

16th @ UC Irvine * Irvine, Calif. TBA

20th CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD Spanos Center 5:00 p.m.

23rd @ UC Davis * Davis, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

27th UC IRVINE * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

30th UC RIVERSIDE (PINK GAME) Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

4th @ UC Santa Barbara * Santa Barbara, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

6th @ Cal Poly * San Luis Obispo, Calif. TBA

11th UC DAVIS * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

13th @ Sacramento State * Sacramento, Calif. 2:00 p.m.

20th LONG BEACH STATE * Spanos Center 5:00 p.m.

25th @ UC Riverside * Riverside, Calif. 7:00 p.m.

27th @ Long Beach State * Long Beach, Calif. TBA

4th CAL STATE FULLERTON * Spanos Center 7:00 p.m.

6th CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE * Spanos Center 4:00 p.m.

Big West Conference Tournament

10th Opening Round Anaheim, Calif. TBA

11th Quarterfinals Anaheim, Calif. TBA

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#11 jasmine DANA senior|guard|bakersfield, ca

#31 eliza DY sophomore|guard|chino hills, ca

#24 jennifer FATH junior|guard|carrollton, tx

#34 emma HEAD senior|post|san diego, ca

#22 erica McKENZIE freshman|guard|sparks, nv

#10 claire McLEOD junior|guard|melbourne, aust.

#4 kendall RODRIGUEZ freshman|forward|la habra, ca

#23 jordan ROGERS freshman|forward|sparks, nv

#20 andrea SWANSON sophomore|forward|littleton, co

#32 shantel THOMAS junior|forward|sacramento, ca

#33 christina THOMPSON sophomore|forward|sacramento, ca

#21 gretchan TIERNAN junior|guard|roseville, ca

#2 arielle WHITE junior|guard|los angeles, ca

lynneROBERTShead coach

alishaVALAVANISassociate head coach

assistant coachjustinWILSON

bradleyDAVISassistant coach

jenWASSOMbasketball operations

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ON THE COVER: Brandon Goethals photographed at Carmel Valley Ranch. - August 2009

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY | 4It’s the NCAA and everyone’s invited. Shunning competitive drive for the all mighty dollar. A celebration in average from the first kick-off to the whistle blows.

NOW OR NEVER| 6A look at the remaining three tournaments left for the Pacific Tigers. Postseason or bust time is running out.

RUNNING THE NUMBERS | 7Breaking down the statistics bit by bit. Think the team is better than usual or worse than in years past. You’d probably be right in either argument that you make.

THE VISION OF BRANDON GOETHALS | 8He came here five years ago to build a championship program. Success has come slowly but surely. And inside look on the architect behind Pacific Golf, head coach Brandon Goethals. Written by Sean Estee.

SPRING REWIND | 16A look back at the Rice Intercollegiate, Fresno Classic, Desert Shootout and Oregon Duck Invitational. The spring semester in review.

QUESTIONS. ANSWERED | 20Hear from head coach Brandon Goethals what’s left this spring for his team.

THE RANKINGS | 22See where the top teams in the nation and big west rank against the Tigers.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING | 24The numbers don’t lie. Get the rundown on all the scores, trends and averages for the year.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES FIELD JR. VOLUME I | 28This Pacific transfer has made his mark on Pacific and Stockton in more than one way. Opportunities aplenty, James Field is look-ing to make the most of his time as a Tiger.

NCAA: And Everyone’s InvitedAt what point in the past few years did we decide to look up from our brackets and office fantasy pools and realize that there really are no losers in college sports? It used to be that winning mat-tered; it separated the teams who either worked hard and played together from the teams that didn’t quite have what it took that year. Some moved on to the postseason and kept their season alive and others went home with a Delta-water taste in their mouth… and ideally used that as motivation for the next season.

Anymore college sports are starting to look like a bad Ladders commercial. Everyone gets a shot at something. Programs are ok with mediocrity because at the end of the year about half the teams go to the postseason anyways. Are we just throwing darts at the wall? Missouri State got a bid to something. They finished sixth. And not in the Big 12... THE MVC! Baby Jessica didn’t go as deep into the well as some of these selection committees are having to.

Thirty-four college bowl games this past season. 34?! That means 68 teams got to celebrate a postseason game… except for Marshall. They got shipped to Detroit for a bowl. That’s not a cel-ebration. That’s a punishment.

Just looking down the list of teams is like a classroom lesson in average. Northern Illinois and Iowa State at 7-6? I understand Iowa State plays in a “power conference” like the Big 12 but Northern Illinois? They played teams like Eastern Michigan (0-12) and Miami of Ohio (1-11) to nudge out enough wins to become “bowl eligible”.

Heck, Minnesota, Texas A&M and Michigan State didn’t even win as many games as they lost and they still got in. What’s that saying anymore? Just get your six wins and you’re in… might as well just schedule Army, Navy and Sisters of the Poor College for Women, that’ll get you halfway there. Notre Dame already figured that one out.

And as bad as the whole bowl game BCS fiasco has gotten, basketball has gotten even worse. I love the 64-team NCAA field... Excuse me, 65. It’s perfect. You’ve always got some early round upsets but no one outside the top ten seeds has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning anyway.

So why were there talks of expanding the field to a possible 96 teams. That’s right, 96! Granted you’ll have some upsets like Northern Iowa over Kansas early but those are white rhino rare. We don’t need another 32-teams that couldn’t play stupid in a Judd Apatow movie cluttering up our brackets to begin with. If you can’t win at least 20 games is there really any consolation in being a doormat for the Blue Devils?

Why all this parity? 65 teams in the NCAA tournament, then another 32 in the NIT and now we’ve got another 16 in the College Insider’s Tournament. That’s 112 teams playing postseason basket-ball. That’s about five dozen too many. We might as well just do away with any games leading up to conference play, cut off ten games and start a bracket with EVERYONE in it three weeks into the season. Last team still standing gets the big wood plaque.

Maybe this generation is just as soft as everyone over the age of 40 thinks it is. Mount St. Mary’s head coach Milan Brown certainly doesn’t make a compelling argument against it.

“Everyone was excited about grabbing a postseason bid. It was great to our kid’s faces when they knew our season wasn’t over. They felt that all the hard work was rewarded by this bid. The College Insider’s Tournament is great for basketball.”

Grabbing a bid? Hard work? You went 19-14!! Of course you got a bid. Damn near everyone got a bid. 14 losses in just over 30 games? The guy cleaning the stands worked harder than you guys did. Take the rest of your March and get your butt to the gym.

These college sports seasons are starting to last longer than the red-eye to New York between a fat guy and a baby. Shouldn’t we draw the line somewhere? Of course athletes today don’t work as hard as they used to, no one’s got a chip on their shoulder to win anything when just getting to .500 gets you in the gate.

You know what .500 is in real life? Average. And where would we be if the benchmark became average for everything?

“Hey Doc, are you any good?”“I’m about 50/50.”

“Go ahead, cut me open. I like those odds.”

I’m just saying maybe we shouldn’t be pushing out invites like it’s a sweet 16 party. Maybe we should have to work for something and get beyond average because that’s a real cause for celebration.

Besides, do you know what average gets you in real life? That’s right. Nowhere. Well… maybe not nowhere. The world needs ditchdiggers, too.

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With The Western, The Cougar Classic and the

Big West Championship looming in the next month the Tigers

tighten up for the stretch run.

theWestern IntercollegIate

theBYU coUgar classIc

theBIg West champIonshIp

dateapril 17-18

coursePasatiempo Golf club

top teamsOregon, UCLA, Oregon St.

hostSan Jose state

finish last yearTeam 8th | Kucich 25th

dateapril 23-24

courseRiverside country club

top teamsUNLV, BYU, Augusta St.

hostBrigham young

finish last yearfirst appearance

datemay 3-4

courseMission Viejo CC

top teamsUC Irvine, UC Davis, Pacific

hostBig West conference

finish last yearTeam 2nd | Bordeaux 3rd

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.58is how much the 2009-10 Tigers are ahead in the race for all-time team scoring average. That .58 equals out to less than a stroke a player... a tournament. They’ll all tell you that it means nothing to better that all-time mark set by the 2000-01 version of the Tigers. In retrospect it does mean nothing. Ask anyone within the team and the battle cry is “Big West or Bust” but it’s hard not to look at the numbers and see how far Pacific Golf has come. The college game has simply gotten better all around in the past decade. Not to mention the last thirty years.

You want proof?Consider this... in the five years that Goethals has taken over the Tigers, his teams’ hold 8 of The ToP 10 loWesT TeAm rouNds IN PACIfIC Golf hIsTorY including the top two (Wyoming Cowboy Classic, 274) and (del Walker Inter-collegiate, 275). They’ve also laid waste to the ToP TeAm TourNAmeNT sCorING reCords, oWNING NumBers oNe ThrouGh sIx (three of those coming in the last year alone).

Want more evidence?

The Pacific Golf program has 16 total wins dating back to 1975... ThAT’s less ThAN 1 everY 2 YeArs. This version of the Tigers has TWo IN The PAsT CAleNdAr YeAr with no one off the current squad going anywhere in the next three semesters. Individually there have been 22 players to finish the year with a scoring average below 73.9; while there are four players on that list since Goethals took over in 2005, the 2009-10 squAd hAs ITs ToP 5 PlAYers poised to join that list in the coming months.

Put a spin on all the numbers and statistics available and the Tigers are still zero for the decade on Big West Cham-pionships and subsequent trips to the NCAA postseason tournament. much like basketball with postseason comprised of high rankings teams, at-large bids and conference winners the Tigers would need to jumP To The ToP 70 in the country to snag an at-large bid. With only three tournaments to go in the 2010 season that window is closing fast.

Which leaves one option.

Big West or Bust.

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course easier. He’s got fi ve guys playing at the moment during the fi rst round of the Oregon Duck Invitational midway through his fi rst year at Pacifi c, and he’s trying to keep an eye on all of them. It’s six tournaments into the season and the jury’s still out on exactly what the team he inherited is made of.

He stands between the pines straight, tall and ready to bound off at a moment’s notice as if someone should need advice on a distant hole. He does not lean, because, well, Brandon Goethals does not lean. Perfectly arced hat, Oakley Straightjackets and matching black Adidas rain gear. Not because the sun is shining as it does on rare occasions in Oregon but because it could rain at any second and Bran-don does not go unprepared. He observes his boys for a few holes and moves on to the next, desperate both to see great shots and even more desperate to see if this hand he’s been dealt may have a go-card somewhere up its sleeve.

A golf cart swerves around the corner and up to him. Casey Martin. Oregon’s coach and longtime friend is making the rounds, making sure his tournament is running smoothly and checking on his players, same as Goethals. On the next fairway one of the Tigers fl ares a wedge, well, a three-iron right of the hole in the brush. “You’ve got the worst team in America,” says Martin. “Good luck.”

He can only shake his head and summon a small nod as he checks the leaderboard and sees his team holding up the back end of it once again. A sigh and nod to Martin and it’s off to the next hole in search of something good. No one said it would be easy....

“SON,

“SON, this may not be for you...”

It’s a line he’s repeated close to a hundred times since he first took a seat in the front conference room in Pacific’s athletic center and championed what his program was going to be about. What sacrifices would be necessary, what the work would entail, but more importantly how much the payoff would be in the end. It was the same line that hooked him at a floundering UNLV back in the late eighties and continues to drive him today. “We will win here”.

It’s not an easy sell. To talk about “championships” and “Pacific” in the same sentence four years ago was like a used car salesman blurting out “perfect condition” as the sawdust fell from the engine. But that phrase has gotten a little easier in the past few years and all the more be-lievable. And why not? No team at Pacific has moved as swiftly and pointedly in the right direction like the golf program. Ranked 84th in the country still doesn’t get you invited to the big dance at the end of the year but it’s a huge move from #255. You don’t even get a text mes-sage for being there.

And that success singularly belongs to one man. Brandon Goethals. What about the players, the boosters, the community, the school…That goes without saying, but someone had to bring it all together. Someone had to have just the right amount of passion and competitiveness to think that it could be done at Pacific. Someone had to supply the vision.

Not for choice of prestige but more for lack of options – that front conference room is step one towards the championship for Pacific Golf. Office too small. Locker-room non-existent. Ironically the place where Goethals is

charged with making his first impression on a recruit and his family is virtually devoid of any pomp and circum-stance of what he’s built in his first four years in Stockton.

But then again that’s not what keeps the interest in Pacific Golf alive. He can’t sell a million dollar practice facil-ity or prestigious athletic history because you can’t boast about what you don’t have. Instead he’s turned around the program by selling the one thing that is a guaranteed hole-in-one, in-it-to-win-it product. Himself.

Passion by the truckload and vision for spare, he’s offer-ing the chance to be part of something special. Not just to recruits but to anyone affiliated with the program from the top down. Goethals has been on both sides of the realm – the beginnings of UNLV in Vegas, the prestige and luxury of Georgia Tech, and he’s now in the process of building the best of both worlds in Stockton because if there is one thing the man knows, it’s about wanting it. Pacific may or may not be for you, but after an hour in that front room with him and you’ll realize at least one thing. No one wants it more than him.

“I had three goals when I came to Pacific. I wanted to graduate fine young men. I wanted to earn the respect of the community. And I wanted to win a championship. We’ve accomplished the first one (three academic all-Americans in four years with another coming this season) and I think we’re doing a good job with the second. It’s that last one that’s taking a little longer than I thought it would.’

There hasn’t been a timeline for winning at Pacific for Goethals, at least to the standard his peers are held to around the country. The expectation, if anything, is to just keep doing the best he can do with what he has to work with, which is great for some but doesn’t sit well with him. Any pressure within the job comes from within and what his inner expectations are for the team, the program and the university. In fact his tenure at Pacific has been more

about overcoming adversity than pushing forward to his goal of a championship as of late. Zero budget each year after paying his staff, no team-only practice facility and a $40,000+ tuition bill to present to recruits each year is sort of a reverse of the holy trinity of college golf. Zero budget? Even the Salvation Army probably starts with a few bucks to buy new bells!

He knows better than anyone that his vision starts and ends with his ability to get others to buy in. His assistant coach, Jeremy Fletcher, was the first to buy in. With a good knowledge of the game at best, Goethals turned Fletcher from a Midwest kid with zero experience into a partner that shared his passion stride for stride. And his wife Janelle whom he met and married last year... SoCal gorgeous doesn’t just happen for a guy who’s coasting along.

The boosters were arguably the easiest group to convince that he was headed in the right direction. While his passion was contagious it was the generous contributions towards the program that kept it alive. He convinced them that he could get Pacific to the promised land and all of a sudden the Tigers started pulling down $60,000 for one day of fund-raising. He pitched the Pacific Invitational and got the Stockton Sports Commission to pony up $10,000 a year for his tournament. That’s right. Some college tournaments slap the tournament name on the wall and print scorecards… that’s a cool 10 g’s just to get him started! And when the Tigers don’t play well, guess who he calls and writes hand-written notes to and apologizes to and assures that they’ll be better next time. And people wonder why they’re moving forward…

Most importantly, his players that had a plethora of choices to spend their four years of college somehow turned down places like San Diego and Texas and the Pac 10’s of the world to make a move over to 3,500-strong University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. And while the years were lean in the beginning the growth is undeniable.

“B always talks about the guys ‘buyin’ in’,” says Fletcher. “No one really did that until about third year when we started getting some success. We had to get some of our recruits in here that share our vision of what we wanted for the program. Once they became leaders you could start to see them taking care of business on their own and he didn’t have to show them the direction anymore.”

One has to simply be thankful that at some point that little blonde kid growing up in Redding thirty years ago decided it was pretty damn fun to play golf. That imaginary standard that he holds himself to and pushes himself and his team towards could have been applied to nearly any job in the world. A Fortune 500 company it could have been, but he knows golf, so that’s where his passion resides. He’s got that innate quality to put vision to paper and make it a reality.

“I had three goals when I came to PacIfIc. I wanted to graduate fIne young men. I wanted to earn the resPect of the

communIty. and I wanted to wIn a chamPIonshIP.

It’s that last one that’s takIng a lIttle longer than I thought It would.”

He's a very competitive guy. He has a lot of knowledge about the game and he motivates in many ways!”

~ TJ Bordeaux

Want an example? The Pacific Invitational. At the beginning of each No-vember, arguably one of the top college golf tournaments in the country for absolutely no other reason in the world than because Brandon want-ed it to be and would not cut a single corner in doing so. The amenities and gifts read like a second-tier Sony Open, and that’s exactly what he wanted it to be.

“My first year here Lynn King came to me and said we needed to get going on our home tournament as it was already the end of the sum-mer. With no course, no plan of action and no vision, I asked to hold off a year and let me do it right,” he said. “He allowed me to do that and things started happening pretty fast from there. I hired a marketing team that had run professional tournaments before, secured one of the best courses, (Brookside Country Club) and worked with the Stockton Sports Commission to fund it how we needed to.”

And it’s that vision that makes it all so much fun to be a Tiger. His team does not do things as they should or because everyone else does some-thing a certain way. In fact you’re more likely to see Goethals bounce the obligatory methods in favor of something a little higher quality. In his mind, if something is good enough for the best athletes in the world or the best teams in the country, then that’s EXACTLY what his team is going to do. At least twice he’s shunned the beaten path for the right decision in his mind and who’s to argue with him?

It’s unclear what the actual reasoning is for why he works out with the team every morning. He’ll tell you it’s simply to keep in shape. He says that as he nears 40 he wants to stay physically fit and in good condition. However, 40-year old guys DO NOT go toe-to-toe with college athletes in the gym at 6 A.M. five days a week. 40-year old guys swim, they jog, they play pick-up basketball and tennis to stay in-shape. Not this.

But here he is, sitting in his car, first one there waiting for the studio to open its doors. Same orange sweatshirt, same workout gear as his team; in fact, with his hood pulled over you could easily mistake him for one of his guys if you walked by quick enough, save for the fact that he’s not sitting in a Honda but a c-series midnight blue Mercedes. And of course for the fact that unlike his players, he’s not using the ten-minutes of wait-ing for the doors to open to get in a few winks. He e-mails.

There’s a certain cut-your-throat-to-win quality ingrained in Brandon; and amazingly enough it always seems to come out at the appropriate times. While most with that quality let it control them and their actions, Goethals seems to be able to keep it at bay; only unleashing it when something’s on the line or deemed appropriate in his eyes. And of course there are settings where it is unleashed more often than not, and the rare occasion where it simply cannot be controlled.

Finally the doors open and this is where you see that competitive spirit take hold. He’ll motivate one guy, and thirty seconds later yell at the next. The team burns through 300-squats, 100-pushups, lunges, ball throws and a good two-mile run within the first 30-minutes. That said

and done they’ve still got a circuit of nearly a thousand ab exercises to get through. And you can go at any pace you’d like. You can rip through them, you can take your time but there’s one thing above all else that you simply CANNOT do. Finish last.

“Seriously! I’m almost 40 years old and I’m kicking your butt in here,” he directs at one of the underclassmen. “You know what this program is about. It’s on YOU to get prepared in the gym! Just like on the course!”

Harsh? Maybe. Direct? Hell yes. Unreasonable? No way.

“I think that’s just part of coaching,” he said. “Granted most of these guys are working me out of the gym but as I look at it, they should be!

I feel like no matter if it’s in the gym or on the golf course there’s no way they should lose to me. I’m 20-years older than them and I haven’t worked on my golf game in nearly that long. Me beating them is simply just mind over matter. They’ve got to want it, and more importantly, they have to hold themselves accountable for their own actions and their own successes or failures.”

Vision and drive aside, there really is only one thing left for the Tigers to come full circle. To win a championship. Maybe not the NCAA variety but the Big West kind. Four years ago putting money on Pacific to win anything was kind of like taking the field against Tiger Woods in 2000. But support from the community, an immense media push and reinvest-

“SeriouSly! i’m almoSt 40 yearS old and i’m kicking your Butt in here”.

not since mike gundy has a coach made it known his age so clearly. and for such purpose.

ment and desire from his players have his Tigers thinking not what could have been but what might be.

The workout is half over. Just twelve guys drenched with sweat in early morning hours. Goethals paces off to the side, anxiously waiting to get the next drill going. Seemingly incapable of sitting still and going with the flow it’s borderline unnerving to watch as two of his players finish their sets.

“Damn I hate sitting around,” he says. “There’s so much to do and we’ve got so far still to go.”

He might be talking about the teams’ morning workouts at the moment but that quote has far deeper meaning. No doubt he’s referring to the journey; the work undone. After all, it’s his vision that’s gotten the Tigers to the position they’re in and without a doubt, it will be his unrelenting drive to push the Tigers to achieve that which he said he would.

~ S.E.

N O R I C E R E P E A TProving it’s not all about how you start but more about how you fi nish, junior Alex Johnson battled back from an open-ing round 79 to post the second-lowest round of the tournament en route to leading the Tigers to a third place fi nish at the Rice Intercollegiate. Playing a cold and windy Westwood Country Club in Houston, the Tigers were in fi fth place after the fi rst round but jumped back in the second with a 302, and a fi nal round 297 gave them a lock on third place.

Last year the Tigers recovered from a 12-shot defi cit to win their fi rst team tournament in eight years, but a younger team and tougher conditions kept the Tigers from going back-to-back. Alongside Johnson’s ninth place fi nish it was freshman Alex Edfort and junior TJ Bordeaux that helped Pacifi c’s cause with fi nal rounds of 76 and 75, respectively. Patrick Kucich recorded an-other top 20 fi nish with a fi nal round 76.

“With the conditions being this tough, par was a good score this week,” said head coach Brandon Goethals. “I knew that a shot here or there was going to be big out here, as it always is, but this proved that a shot a guy and we’re right back in contention for an-other win. We have to look at that and use it the rest of this spring."

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back. Alongside Johnson’s ninth place fi nish it was freshman Alex Edfort and junior TJ Bordeaux that helped Pacifi c’s cause with fi nal rounds of 76 and 75, respectively. Patrick Kucich recorded an-other top 20 fi nish with a fi nal round 76.


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With a disastrous fi nal round of play the Pacifi c golf team’s postseason chances took a major hit Tuesday afternoon at the Fresno State Lexus Classic. The par 71 San Joaquin Country Club course proved far too much for the Tigers to handle as they posted rounds of 372, 373 and 377 to shoot +57 for the tournament. Junior TJ Bordeaux collected another top 25 fi nish to lead the Tigers but with a lack of any marquee performances the Tigers slipped from the middle of the pack to nearly last place before bouncing back up to 12th as play concluded. Junior Patrick Kucich was the next closest Tiger with a fi nal round 76 but only Bayhaan Lakdawala managed to fi nish in the top sixty players as Alex Johnson, Ben Bauch and Danny Garcia fell to the bottom of the fi eld.

“I’m sick and tired of losing to the teams that we can beat and now losing to the teams that we should beat,” said head coach Brandon Goethals. “The sense of urgency is simply not there. When you want something bad enough you will eventually fi gure out a way to get it; we haven’t reached that point yet.”

If postseason opportunities pass up the Tigers again in 2010 they can look back on two days in early March as the reason why. The performance leaves both the team and Goethals in search of how to right the ship in anticipation of four more key tournaments down the stretch until the Big West Championship.

FINAL ROUND

INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS

1. San Diego 366 359 360 1,0851. BYU 361 362 362 1,0853. Washington 363 356 368 1,0874. Oregon 369 358 361 1,0885. Michigan 372 349 371 1,0926. Pepperdine 355 365 374 1,0947. UC Irvine 366 377 364 1,1078. Fresno St. 370 372 367 1,1099. California 365 377 368 1,11010. Cal Poly 375 372 369 1,11610. Sacramento St. 371 369 375 1,11612. Pacific 372 373 377 1,12213. St. Maryʼs 377 378 372 1,12714. Nevada 377 377 374 1,12815. Kansas St. 380 373 379 1,13216. San Jose St. 383 378 375 1,135

FRESNO LEXUS CLASSICSan Joaquin Country Club | March 8-9

1. Chin, UC Irvine 75 67 66 2081. Fillmore, BYU 74 67 67 2083. Wong, Oregon 74 66 71 2114. Brace, San Diego 71 71 70 2125. Putnam, Pepperdine 69 69 75 2135. Johnson, BYU 70 71 72 2136. Patel, Fresno St. 73 69 72 214 25. TJ Bordeaux 73 74 73 22041. Patrick Kucich 73 74 76 22343. Bayhaan Lakdawala 77 73 74 22365. Alex Johnson 74 77 76 22874. Ben Bauch 75 77 78 23074. Danny Garcia 77 75 79 230

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Final Round Knocked Out

HOME SWEET HOME“This is for 29.”It’s junior Alex Johnson’s father, TJ, whispering on the ninth green during the first round of the Desert Shootout at Palm Valley Country Club. His son’s downhill four-footer slides just past the hole and he annoyingly taps in for a par. “Oh well, we’ll take a 30,” he says and strides off to the next hole with a smiling Alex following close behind. The Pacific junior would close out his opening round with a slew of pars and finish with an open-ing round lead at six-under par. But that missed putt on number nine would be a harbinger of things to come that week for the Tigers... missed it by that much.

After setting a Pacific Golf opening round record with a 277 the Tigers held the lead by the slimmest of margins for 24 hours. With four Tigers shooting under par including Johnson (66), Edfort (70), Bauch (70) and Bordeaux (71) the Tigers appeared to be in control but a second round disaster awaited. Only Bauch and Kucich could manage even par 72’s while the rest of the field caught up quickly and pushed the Tigers back to the middle of the pack.

As the Tigers have been prone to do, they bounced back in the final round, posting a 290 in tougher conditions to come within five shots of the win and settling for fifth place overall. Having beat higher ranked VCU and Kansas State was bittersweet with the knowledge that even an average second round would have given them the shot at their second win of the year.

DESERT SHOOTOUT

It was the first defining moment of his college career that has seen its share of hills and valleys. Back home in the Pacific Northwest with a runaway victory at the Duck Invitational. That was three years ago. A freshman then.

History almost repeated itself on March 23rd when Bordeaux took a share of the lead into the final round of Oregon’s tournament. The tables would turn this time and not in his favor as Oregon’s Dan-iel Miernicki posted a final round 67 to clip him by three shots.

Victory or not, Bordeaux’s individual fourth place en route to leading the Tigers to a seventh place finish should say something far more important. That quite possibly the Washington native that nearly set the single season scoring average as a freshman may be looking to lead by example rather than as the team leadership role that forced upon him three years ago. With his four-under par tournament his scoring average is again first on the team and it couldn’t come at a better time for the Tigers.

Pacific opened up the Duck with a ten-over 370 in the play six, count five format and bounced back in the afternoon with a 360. The even par round put the Tigers in the drivers seat for a better than average finish but middle of the road was the best they could muster. While Patrick Kucich and Ben Bauch shot a second round 72 and 71, the best they could do in the final round was a 77 and 79.

“Great teams play consistently over three rounds,” said Goethals. “We haven’t figured that out yet. We’ve played great for one round or for two rounds, but we can’t afford to give it all back in the final round like we did today. Once we figure that out, we’ll be the team I know we can be.”

With back-to-back tournaments in the home regions of jun iors T J Bordeaux and alex Johnson i t looked l ike i t was make-it-or-break-i t week for the T igers. and whi le both team leaders rose to the occasion at their “home” tournaments the T igers did noth ing to either hurt their chances or enhance their status for the postseason.

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Q. What do you expect to see from your team in the fi nal two months. You’ve got four tournaments coming up. Where should you play well and what’s the toughest test yet?

BG. These are all important tournaments for us. The toughest test will defi nitely be at the Western Intercol-legiate. That golf course is demanding and the fi eld is strong. Bottom line, we have to continue to mature and play with passion.

Q. Everyone’s been talking Tiger... Tiger Woods that is. When he returns what do you expect from him?

BG. Domination.....

“We haven’t beaten those guys (Davis & Irvine) in like three years. Something has to change for us to beat them.”

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wILLnOw BeAQ. What about the Big West this year? Is it as strong as it’s been in the past and if so...

Where do the Tigers fi t into that?

BG. Well, if you’re talking about the Big West Tournament in May, I know we can play well enough to win. We were close last year and I think deep down the guys know we can pull it off. The chal-lenge is that we haven’t beaten UC Irvine or UC Davis in like three years. Something has to change for us to beat those guys.

Q. Coach, you guys had all the opportunity to put yourself in the race for regionals with a strong performance at the Fresno Lexus Classic. The team simply did not rise to the challenge. What do you guys have to do to get over the hump?

BG. We just need to play golf. You have to execute every single shot with passion and intensity. During the fi nal round of the Lexus, we had eight double bogies and one triple bogey as a team. In my opinion, that is just not being focused and playing smart. I know these guys have the tools to play well, we just need to do it.

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2009-2010IndividualStatistics Name Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Par/- Finish PACIFICTIGERS 27 7,872 292.3 277 43 1st TJBordeaux 27 1,979 73.2 69 6 4th AlexJohnson 27 1,982 73.4 66 9 1st PatrickKucich 27 1,987 73.5 68 8 8th DannyGarcia 21 1,547 73.6 68 7 7th BenBauch 24 1,767 73.6 66 9 13th AlexEdfort 12 899 74.9 70 4 13th BayhaanLakdawala 6 453 75.5 75 - 43rd AlexGrieb 6 460 76.6 73 - 80th

2007-2008IndividualStatistics Name Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Par/- Finish PACIFICTIGERS 35 10,264 293.2 275 47 2nd TJBordeaux 34 2,461 72.3 66 12 1st ChrisRosenau 35 2,580 73.7 67 12 7th AlexJohnson 33 2,469 74.8 68 8 4th A.J.Hohn 29 2,143 73.8 69 8 9th CharlieVanSicklen 32 2,432 76.0 69 7 20th AlexGrieb 14 1,055 75.3 72 - 19th

2008-2009IndividualStatistics Name Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Par/- Finish PACIFICTIGERS 36 10,650 295.8 274 34 1st TJBordeaux 36 2,650 73.6 68 11 3rd PatrickKucich 33 2,457 74.4 68 4 3rd AlexJohnson 36 2,693 74.8 68 7 10th CharlieVanSicklen 30 2,244 74.8 66 7 9th AlexGrieb 12 905 75.4 68 2 12th RobertPerrott 17 1,285 75.5 69 3 31st BayhaanLakdawala 12 933 77.7 71 - 50th DannyGarcia 3 236 78.6 75 - 79th

2006-2007IndividualStatisticsName Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Par/- FinishPACIFICTIGERS 36 10,733 298.1 278 26 3rdThomasPetersson 36 2,628 73.0 66 16 3rdChrisRosenau 33 2,474 74.9 65 4 10thReidScarff 3 226 75.3 72 - 61stCharlieVanSicklen 24 1,815 75.6 68 3 13thA.J.Hohn 27 2,056 76.1 70 5 15thBrettGiurlani 3 231 77.0 74 - 72ndPatrickKucich 24 1,855 77.2 71 1 48thAdamBeckman 9 695 77.2 75 - 48thBayhaanLakdawala 24 1,857 77.3 70 1 25th

Stacking Up Against the NationTransitioning from #250 in the nation four years ago to the top 100 this past year has put the Tigers re-

building process on the fast track for more and more success. Yet there still remains a huge hill to climb for Pacific Golf to reside among the nation’s elite.

# Name School Rating 1 Diego Velasquez Oregon State 70.02 Dustin Garza Wichita State 70.43 Eugene Wong Oregon 69.74 Jonathan Randolph Ole Miss 70.55 Brooks Koepka Florida State 71.06 Brenan Glelow Wake Forest 72.07 Russell Henley Georgia 71.78 Philipp Westermann SE Louisiana 71.79 Ben Kohles Virginia 70.510 Sihwan Kim Stanford 71.311 Kelly Kraft SMU 71.012 Derek Ernst UNLV 71.013 John Chin UC Irvine 70.514 Andrea Pavan Texas A&M 71.515 Dylan Frittelli Texas 71.316 Sean Dale North Florida 70.817 Nick Taylor Washington 71.518 Corey Nagy UNC Charlotte 70.819 Scott Langley Illinois 71.320 Espen Kofstad Denver 71.1

GolfWeek Rankings | 3/26/2010

# Team 1 Oklahoma State 2 Stanford3 Augusta State4 Texas A&M5 Washington6 Texas7 UCLA8 Florida State9 Oregon10 Illinois11 UNLV12 Florida13 Southern California14 Arizona State15 Clemson16 TCU 17 South Carolina

# Team 18 Georgia19 Texas Tech20 Georgia Tech21 Oregon State22 Alabama23 North Florida24 California25 Virginia60 UC Irvine 76 UC Davis88 Pacific 95 Long Beach State132 Cal Poly 136 Cal St. Northridge137 UC Santa Barbara 165 UC Riverside 217 Cal State-Fullerton

Golf Stat Rankings | 3/26/2010

# Team 1 Oregon 2 Oklahoma State3 Stanford4 Washington5 UCLA6 Texas7 UNLV8 Texas A&M9 Arizona State10 Augusta State11 Florida State12 Southern California13 Illinois14 Clemson15 Georgia Tech16 Texas Tech17 Florida

# Team 18 Virginia19 South Carolina20 Georgia21 North Florida22 TCU23 San Diego24 Alabama25 California69 UC Irvine 89 UC Davis92 Pacific 102 Long Beach State135 UC Santa Barbara136 Cal Poly 141 Cal St. Northridge180 UC Riverside 221 Cal State-Fullerton

Golf Stat Rankings | 3/26/2010# Name School Average1 Russell Henley Georgia 69.12 Brooks Koepka Florida State 69.23 Diego Velasquez Oregon State 69.34 Sihwan Kim Stanford 69.55 Jonathan Randolph Ole miss 69.76 Dylan Frittelli Texas 69.77 TJ Griffin Georgia Tech 69.88 Dustin Garza Wichita State 69.89 Brendan Gielow Wake Forest 69.810 Henrik Norlander Augusta State 69.839 John Chin UC Irvine 70.561 Austin Graham UC Davis 71.0176 Nick Delio Northridge 72.0225 Scott Clayton UC Riverside 72.3265 Tyler Raber UC Davis 71.0329 Alex Johnson Pacific 73.0400 Patrick Kucich Pacific 73.4410 Ben Bauch Pacific 73.4452 TJ Bordeaux Pacific 73.6582 Danny Garcia Pacific 74.2

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49er Collegiate ClassiCOctober23-24,2006•CabbarrusCountryClub

15thof15 PacificTigers 322 318 318 958 50th AdamBeckman 79 81 76 236 54th ChrisRosenau 77 82 79 238 61st ThomasPetersson 82 79 80 241 73rd PatrickKucich 86 76 83 245 79th BayhaanLakdawala 84 82 84 250

Countrywide Home loansOctober30-31,2006•WoodRanchCountryClub

13thof14 PacificTigers 295 299 287 881 8th ThomasPetersson 69 74 71 214 30th ChrisRosenau 73 75 71 219 61st ReidScarff 77 76 73 226 69th A.J.Hohn 80 78 72 230 72nd BrettGiurlani 76 74 81 231

PaCifiC invitationalNovember6-8,2006•BrooksideCountryClub

11thof14 PacificTigers 291 297 298 886 13th CharlieVanSicklen 68 72 74 214 31st ThomasPetersson 74 71 74 219 48th PatrickKucich 75 77 75 227 48th AdamBeckman 75 77 75 227 52nd BayhaanLakdawala 74 78 77 229

uH-Hilo interCollegiateFebruary7-9,2007•WaikoloaVillageCourse

14thof18 PacificTigers 284 281 289 854 18th ThomasPetersson 66 68 71 205 63rd ChrisRosenau 72 71 72 215 63rd CharlieVanSicklen 73 71 71 215 80th BayhaanLakdawala 73 71 77 221 84th PatrickKucich 73 75 75 223

riCe interCollegiateFebruary17-18,2007•WestwoodGolfClub

4thof12 PacificTigers 298 311 300 909 3rd ThomasPetersson 71 73 74 218 12th ChrisRosenau 76 75 75 226 24th CharlieVanSicklen 73 84 74 231 53rd A.J.Hohn 82 81 77 240 53rd PatrickKucich 78 82 80 240

fresno lexus ClassiCMarch12-13,2007•SunnysideCountryClub

8thof15 PacificTigers 298 296 292 886 4th ThomasPetersson 71 71 71 213 35th ChrisRosenau 76 73 74 223 56th A.J.Hohn 75 81 73 229 62nd PatrickKucich 76 77 78 231 68th BayhaanLakdawala 81 75 77 233

western interCollegiateMarch18-19,2007•PasatiempoGolfCourse

15thof18 PacificTigers 302 299 298 899 39th A.J.Hohn 73 74 74 221 55th ThomasPetersson 74 77 75 226 55th ChrisRosenau 77 73 76 226 68th BayhaanLakdawala 80 76 73 229 85th PatrickKucich 78 76 81 235

Big west ConferenCe CHamPionsHiPApril23-24,2007•TijerasCreekGolfClub

3rdof7 PacificTigers 292 292 287 871 4th ThomasPetersson 74 69 70 213 10th ChrisRosenau 69 73 75 217 15th A.J.Hohn 75 72 72 219 25th BayhaanLakdawala 77 78 70 225 33rd CharlieVanSicklen 74 78 80 232

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September25-26,2007-NewportNationalGC•7,244-yard,Par72 7thof15 PacificTigers 304 302 303 909 T15 T.J.Bordeaux 77 74 74 225 T19 AlexGrieb 74 78 74 226 T28 ChrisRosenau 75 77 77 229 T28 A.J.Hohn 78 73 78 229 T53 AlexJohnson 79 81 78 238

Husky invitationalOctober1-2,2007-GoldMountainGolfClub•7,061-yard,Par72

7thof13 PacificTigers 299 300 599 T8 T.J.Bordeaux 73 73 146 T24 ChrisRosenau 75 76 151 T31 A.J.Hohn 76 76 152 T39 CharlieVanSicklen 75 79 154 T44 AlexGrieb 80 75 155

tHe Prestige at Pga westOctober15-16,2007•PGAWest•7,156-yard,Par72

13thof16 PacificTigers 306 290 296 892 T37 ChrisRosenau 79 74 70 223 T41 AlexJohnson 79 72 73 224 T66 AlexGrieb 73 77 79 229 74 CharlieVanSicklen 75 72 84 231 DQ T.J.Bordeaux DQ 72 74 DQ

del walker interCollegiateOctober25-26,2007•VirginiaCountryClub•6,633-yard,Par71

2ndof11 PacificTigers 284 275 283 842 T4 AlexJohnson 69 68 72 209 T7 ChrisRosenau 72 67 71 210 T7 T.J.Bordeaux 69 70 71 210 T20 CharlieVanSicklen 74 71 69 214 T35 A.J.Hohn 75 70 72 217 T49 AlexGrieb 76 73 72 221

PaCifiC invitationalNovember5-7,2007•BrooksideCountryClub•6,777-yard,Par72

11thof14 PacificTigers 287 280 293 860 T25 T.J.Bordeaux 73 66 74 213 36 AlexJohnson 71 73 71 215 T37 ChrisRosenau 74 70 72 216 T37 CharlieVanSicklen 69 71 76 216 T58 AlexGrieb 75 73 76 224

del walker interCollegiateSeptember14-15,2006•VirginiaCountryClub

13thof14 PacificTigers 295 299 287 881 8th ThomasPetersson 69 74 71 214 30th ChrisRosenau 73 75 71 219 61st ReidScarff 77 76 73 226 69th A.J.Hohn 80 78 72 230 72nd BrettGiurlani 76 74 81 231

adam’s CuP of newPortSeptember26-27,2006•NewportNational

7thof12 PacificTigers 304 298 306 908 17th ThomasPetersson 78 74 75 227 17th CharlieVanSicklen 77 74 76 227 28th ChrisRosenau 73 79 78 230 37th BayhaanLakdawala 76 74 82 232 49th A.J.Hohn 83 76 77 236

oregon duCk invitationalMarch26-27,2007•EugeneCountryClub

12thof12 PacificTigers 322 307 294 923 31st ThomasPetersson 79 72 74 225 54th CharlieVanSicklen 84 78 71 233 59th A.J.Hohn 84 77 74 235 59th PatrickKucich 80 80 75 235 65th ChrisRosenau 79 82 77 238

PaCifiC Coast interCollegiateApril2-3,2007•AlisalRiverCourse

7thof18 PacificTigers 278 290 285 853 17th ChrisRosenau 65 71 74 210 17th ThomasPetersson 70 71 69 210 42nd A.J.Hohn 72 73 70 215 59th PatrickKucich 71 76 72 219 76th CharlieVanSicklen 74 75 74 223

uH Hilo interCollegiateFebruary6-8,2008•WaikoloaVillage•6,738-yard,Par70

17thof18 PacificTigers 291 282 293 866 T53 A.J.Hohn 72 69 74 215 T57 T.J.Bordeaux 72 72 72 216 T68 ChrisRosenau 72 70 75 217 T81 AlexJohnson 76 71 73 220 T88 CharlieVanSicklen 75 75 74 224

riCe interCollegiateFebruary18-19,2008•WestwoodGolfClub•7,184-yard,Par72

3rdof12 PacificTigers 296 301 287 884 T4 T.J.Bordeaux 75 76 68 219 T15 ChrisRosenau 74 73 75 222 T27 AlexJohnson 75 76 74 225 30 CharlieVanSicklen 79 77 70 226 T32 A.J.Hohn 72 76 80 228

Bill Cullum interCollegiateNovember 7-8, 2005 • Wood Ranch Country Club

3rdof13 PacificTigers 300 296 298 894 3rd GordianCurtius 74 71 72 217 8th ThomasPetersson 73 68 80 221 17th ChrisRosenau 76 78 72 226 27th AdamBeckman 77 79 74 230 59th CharlieVanSicklen 77 81 83 241

riCe interColleigateFebruary 6-7, 2006 • Willowisp Country Club

5thof14 PacificTigers 307 302 295 904 9th ThomasPetersson 76 75 72 223 12th ChrisRosenau 77 77 70 224 39th AdamBeckman 81 76 73 230 45th CharlieVanSicklen 76 75 81 232 56th BrettGiurlani 78 76 80 234

anteater invitationalFebruary 27-28, 2006 • Mesa Verde CC

5thof8 PacificTigers 294 304 598 15th ThomasPetersson 69 79 148 19th ChrisRosenau 74 75 149 21st AdamBeckman 78 72 150 40th A.J.Hohn 73 83 156 46th CharlieVanSicklen 83 78 161

BraveHeart ClassiCMarch 6-7, 2006 • Oak Valley GC

17thof20 PacificTigers 313 306 316 935 58th CharlieVanSicklen 74 78 78 230 71st A.J.Hohn 79 74 81 234 71st ThomasPetersson 81 79 74 234 82nd ChrisRosenau 79 75 83 237 102nd AdamBeckman 82 83 84 249

oregon duCk invitationalMarch 27-28, 2006 • Shadow Hills CC

9thof12 PacificTigers 294 309 304 907 27th ChrisRosenau 72 78 71 221 36th ThomasPetersson 74 77 74 225 51st AdamBeckman 73 77 80 230 57th CharlieVanSicklen 75 77 79 231 70th ReidScarff 75 80 83 238

wyoming CowBoy ClassiCApril 10-11, 2006 • Talking Stick North GC

16thof21 PacificTigers 293 295 288 876 25th ChrisRosenau 68 74 71 213 61st A.J.Hohn 76 71 72 219 70th CharlieVanSicklen 74 76 71 221 90th ThomasPetersson 76 75 74 225 104th AdamBeckman 75 75 83 233

Big west CHamPionsHiPApril 25-26, 2006 • Tijeras Creek CC

5thof7 PacificTigers 300 294 292 886 11th CharlieVanSicklen 74 73 73 221 16th ChrisRosenau 74 74 73 221 22nd ThomasPetersson 76 75 72 223 23rd A.J.Hohn 76 72 76 224 27th AdamBeckman 78 77 74 229

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fresno lexus ClassiCMarch10-11,2008•FortWashingtonG&CC•6,729-yard,Par72

5thof20 PacificTigers 287 293 282 862 12th T.J.Bordeaux 73 68 71 212 31st A.J.Hohn 71 76 69 216 31st ChrisRosenau 71 73 72 216 57th AlexJohnson 74 76 70 220 84th CharlieVanSicklen 72 82 74 228

oregon duCk ClassiCMarch24-25,2008•EmeraldValleyGolfClub•7,093-yard,Par72

4thof11 PacificTigers 285 301 300 886 WON T.J.Bordeaux 68 68 74 210 21st A.J.Hohn 72 76 76 224 33rd AlexJohnson 71 79 76 226 46th CharlieVanSicklen 76 78 77 231 52nd ChrisRosenau 74 87 74 235

stevinson ranCH invitationalApril7-8,2008•StevinsonRanch•7,144-yard,Par72

7thof14 PacificTigers 305 295 301 901 14th TJBordeaux 73 72 78 223 16th ChrisRosenau 78 72 74 224 16th AlexJohnson 76 74 74 224 41st AJHohn 78 77 75 230 70th CharlieVanSicklen 83 79 81 243

asu tHunderBird invitationalApril11-13,2008•KarstenGolfCourse•7,057-yard,Par71

14thof16 PacificTigers 292 293 301 886 9th AJHohn 74 69 71 214 31st TJBordeaux 72 73 74 219 46th ChrisRosenau 70 74 78 222 80th AlexJohnson 79 77 78 234 82nd CharlieVanSicklen 76 79 80 235

Big west CHamPionsHiPApril21-22,2008•TijerasCreekGolfCourse•6,918-yard,Par72

4thof8 PacificTigers 296 292 290 878 8th ChrisRosenau 76 67 72 215 10th AJHohn 72 75 71 218 21st TJBordeaux 77 74 71 222 32nd CharlieVanSicklen 78 76 76 230 38th AlexJohnson 71 82 81 234

william H. tuCker invitationalSeptember26-27,2008•NewMexicoCC•7,272-yard,Par72

11thof16 PacificTigers 302 300 306 908 29th AlexJohnson 77 74 73 224 37th AlexGrieb 75 77 74 226 57th TJBordeaux 76 74 79 229 71st CharlieVanSicklen 74 79 80 233 79th DannyGarcia 78 75 83 236

Husky invitationalSeptember29-30,2008•GoldMountainGC•7,104-yard,Par72

6thof11 PacificTigers 296 299 295 890 11th TJBordeaux 73 73 72 218 12th CharlieVanSicklen 71 76 72 219 29th AlexJohnson 77 73 74 224 58th AlexGrieb 79 77 77 233 63rd PatrickKucich 75 79 83 237

tHe Prestige at Pga westOctober13-14,2008•PGAWest•7,156-yard,Par72

15thof16 PacificTigers 317 305 299 921 38th PatrickKucich 74 80 75 229 38th AlexJohnson 80 71 78 229 67th TJBordeaux 78 82 73 233 73rd AlexGrieb 85 77 73 235 N/A RobertPerrott - 77 79 -

del walker interCollegiateOctober16-17,2008•VirginiaCC•6,633-yard,Par71

4thof13 PacificTigers 283 276 289 848 9th PatrickKucich 68 72 69 209 12th AlexGrieb 72 68 71 211 29th AlexJohnson 70 71 75 216 29th TJBordeaux 74 68 74 216 38th RobertPerrott 73 69 76 218

PaCifiC invitationalNovember3-5,2008•BrooksideCC•6,777-yard,Par71

8thof12 PacificTigers 290 292 291 873 6th TJBordeaux 69 68 74 211 27th CharlieVanSicklen 73 75 71 219 39th AlexJohnson 75 75 72 222 48th PatrickKucich 73 74 77 224 53rd RobertPerrott 76 77 74 227

riCe interCollegiateFebruary16-17,2009•WestwoodCountryClub•7,184-yard,Par72

1stof15 PacificTigers 296 290 288 874 3rd PatrickKucich 73 73 70 216 8th TJBordeaux 74 72 72 218 9th CharlieVanSicklen 75 69 75 219 21st AlexJohnson 75 76 71 222 67th BayhaanLakdawala 74 81 81 236

firestone invitationalOctober12-13,2009•FirestoneNorthCC•7,060-yard,Par72

8thof11 PacificTigers 310 293 303 906 20th PatrickKucich 76 73 75 224 34th TJBordeaux 75 76 76 227 46th DannyGarcia 82 71 77 230 46th BayhaanLakdawala 79 76 75 230 46th AlexJohnson 80 73 77 230

usC Collegiate invitationalFebruary23-24,2009•NorthRanchCC•6,869-yard,Par71

11thof13 PacificTigers 290 297 305 892 30th TJBordeaux 72 72 76 220 38th PatrickKucich 73 72 77 222 56th BayhaanLakdawala 72 78 77 227 60th CharlieVanSicklen 76 78 75 229 67th AlexJohnson 73 75 83 231

fresno lexus ClassiCMarch8-10,2009•BelmontCC•6,511-yard,Par72

10thof19 PacificTigers 302 295 296 893 31st RobertPerrott 77 74 72 223 31st CharlieVanSicklen 76 74 73 223 40th TJBordeaux 76 72 77 225 49th PatrickKucich 78 75 74 227 73rd AlexJohnson 73 77 81 231

oregon duCk ClassiCMarch22-24,2009•EugeneCC•7,033-yard,Par72

10thof12 PacificTigers 307 308 299 913 37th TJBordeaux 75 79 72 226 50th BayhaanLakdawala 80 75 75 230 59th PatrickKucich 75 82 75 232 59th CharlieVanSicklen 77 79 76 232 59th AlexJohnson 80 75 77 232

western interCollegiateMarch29-31,2009•PasatiempoGolfCourse•6,500-yard,Par70

8thof18 PacificTigers 294 307 307 908 25th PatrickKucich 74 73 77 224 32nd TJBordeaux 77 73 76 226 37th AlexJohnson 72 80 75 227 71st CharlieVanSicklen 78 81 79 238 79th BayhaanLakdawala 71 85 84 240

wyoming CowBoy ClassiCApril6-7,2009•TalkingStickNorth•7,133-yard,Par70

8thof20 PacificTigers 299 274 289 862 27th TJBordeaux 73 68 73 214 27th CharlieVanSicklen 77 66 71 214 39th PatrickKucich 71 72 73 216 54th AlexJohnson 78 68 72 218 104th RobertPerrott 78 73 80 231

Big west CHamPionsHiPApril20-21,2009•SanLuisObispoCC•6,779-yard,Par72

2ndof8 PacificTigers 294 288 286 868 3rd TJBordeaux 74 71 69 214 10th AlexJohnson 73 70 74 217 12th CharlieVanSicklen 70 77 71 218 20th PatrickKucich 77 70 74 221 33rd RobertPerrott 80 78 72 230

del walker invitationalOctober22-23,2009•VirginiaCC•6,578-yard,Par70

8thof16 PacificTigers 281 280 281 842 13th BenBauch 70 67 70 207 21st DannyGarcia 70 71 68 209 26th AlexJohnson 68 73 70 211 50th TJBordeaux 73 70 73 216 62nd PatrickKucich 73 72 73 218 85th AlexGrieb 76 76 75 227

Bill Cullum invitationalOctober26-27,2009•WoodRanchCC•6,972-yard,Par72

1stof17 PacificTigers 279 281 283 843 1st AlexJohnson 66 68 73 207 7th DannyGarcia 69 76 68 213 14th TJBordeaux 76 70 69 215 15th PatrickKucich 72 71 73 216 22nd BenBauch 72 72 73 217

The Pacific inviTaTionalNovember1-4,2009•BrooksideCC•6,720-yard,Par71

8thof12 PacificTigers 278 284 286 848 8th PatrickKucich 71 68 70 209 13th AlexJohnson 69 70 71 210 16th BenBauch 66 72 73 211 39th TJBordeaux 72 75 72 219 50th DannyGarcia 73 74 77 224

saint mary’s invitationalNovember9-10,2009•PoppyHills•6,865-yard,Par72

6thof16 PacificTigers 303 292 295 890 16th PatrickKucich 79 69 73 221 21st TJBordeaux 78 72 73 223 28th BenBauch 73 75 77 225 42nd AlexEdfort 78 78 72 228 42nd AlexJohnson 74 76 78 228

riCe interCollegiateFebruary15-16,2010•WestwoodCC•6,989-yard,Par72

3rdof15 PacificTigers 310 302 297 909 9th AlexJohnson 79 77 70 226 13th AlexEdfort 77 75 76 228 13th TJBordeaux 77 76 75 228 18th PatrickKucich 77 76 76 229 38th BenBauch 83 75 76 234

desert sHootoutMarch18-20,2010•PalmValleyGC•7,015-yard,Par72

5thof17 PacificTigers 277 293 290 860 11th AlexJohnson 66 76 71 213 17th AlexEdfort 70 73 72 215 28th BenBauch 70 72 75 217 37th TJBordeaux 71 76 72 219 50th PatrickKucich 74 72 75 221

oregon duCk ClassiCMarch22-23,2010•ShadowHillsCC•7,007-yard,Par72

7thof13 PacificTigers 293 287 304 884 4th TJBordeaux 69 71 72 212 49th BenBauch 76 71 79 226 49th DannyGarcia 77 73 76 226 49th PatrickKucich 76 72 78 226 63rd AlexEdfort 72 78 78 228 67th AlexJohnson 77 73 79 229

ALL THE NUMBERS AND NOTHING BUT THE NUMBERS

fresno state lexus ClassiCMarch8-9,2010•SanJoaquinCC•6,970-yard,Par71

12thof16 PacificTigers 295 296 299 890 25th TJBordeaux 73 74 73 220 41st PatrickKucich 73 74 76 223 43rd BayhaanLakdawala 77 73 74 223 65th AlexJohnson 74 77 76 228 74th BenBauch 75 77 78 230 74th DannyGarcia 77 75 79 230

THE MAGAZINE | I know there’s a lot to James Field but let’s at least start with some golf questions... Why did you come to Pacific?James Field | Well I wanted to be the best and Pacific Golf wants to be the best. I looked at a lot of other places and no one had the kinda of commit-ment to winning that this place has. No one had the drive and passion that Goethals does. I’ll put it to you this way... I spoke to a number of coaches at big time programs for weeks on end and I chose Pacific within the hour of talking to coach.

TM | You’re a rarity at Pacific, you’re the first transfer Goethals has brought in to the program since he’s been here. You’re a sophomore eligibilty speaking... is that an advantage or a disadvantage for you being a tranfer?JF | I think it’s a major advantage. I have experience playing college golf before so I knew what I was getting into as far as the game and the expecta-tions. I also knew how to maintain my academics. I came from a situation and a school that was like Pacific (Furman) so I think that’s also an advantage. Plus I’ve had my chance to make mistakes... the trial and error situations. I think I can step in with some experience and even though I haven’t played this year due to some injuries I can still make an impact based on other things.TM | What is the biggest difference between the East Coast and the

the last word

B o r d e a u x | L a k d a w a l a | J o h n s o n | K u c i c h | G r i e b | P e r r o t t | G o e t h a l s | E d f o r t | B a u c h | G a r c i a | F l e t c h e r | F i e l d

West Coast?JF | The girls... and the lifestyle.TM | It always seems to come back to the girls for you doesn’t it James...JF | Well... The California lifestyle is less formal, more laid back. Californians really appreciate the downtime and like to be active. Life is more oriented around the water and as far as girls.. the dating scene is more socially liberal. TM | Meaning your charm didn’t work on the southern belles?JF | (laughs) Oh, it did!

TM | What are your goals at Pacific?JF | I really want to win in every aspect. I want to be the best team player I can for this team. I really want to win a championship too. To be honest I don’t care very much about an individual title... If I cared about winning indi-vidually I wouldn’t have played college golf.

TM | How about after college?JF | I want to play professionally at the highest level I can. I’ve been able to compete in junior golf and on this level. I’ve got experience at the British and Eastern Amateur, and I’ve had success in strong fields. I want to work to have that success as a professional.TM | Ok James, tell me some stories...

JF | Like what? I mean I got a lot of stories.TM | I’ve heard that. How about a weekend back in your hometown of Miami... What’s a perfect weekend for you?JF | When I’m down there in the offseason it’s typically get up early and play golf and get some work in and then head out on the water and cruise around the bay in the afternoon. Then go out to dinner with some friends on South Beach.

TM | Not bad...JF | And then we do it all over again the next day....TM | What did you do last New Years’ Eve? South Beach. Miami. Got to be a good place to be for that right?JF | Yeah, of course. I went to Karu & Y in Miami and got sat at a table with Keri Hilson, Chris Brown, Rihanna and some other people. It was a pretty good night!

TM | Ok, favorite golf course.JF | Augusta National.TM | You’ve played it?JF | Twice.TM | Best score?JF | 74.

B o r d e a u x | L a k d a w a l a | J o h n s o n | K u c i c h | G r i e b | P e r r o t t | G o e t h a l s | E d f o r t | B a u c h | G a r c i a | F l e t c h e r | F i e l d

Let’s just tell it like it is. It’s James’ world and we’re all just along for the ride.Ringing in the New Year with Rihanna on South Beach,

Hitting the links with Ernie Els,Dinner with the Manning brothers at Augusta..

Yeah, that’s just a weekend for the Tiger sophomore. Ok... maybe two weekends.

But that glitz and prestige that he brought with him from the East coast has nothing to do with why he’s in Stockton. He came here to win.

And if his track record is any indication he’ll be doing that very soon.

Meet the Tigers’ newest addition. Mr. James Field.

The Life and Times of James Field Jr. : Volume I

TM | Tips?JF | Tips. Ate dinner with Peyton and Eli Manning that night too.TM | That’s a full day.

TM | Your mom had a huge impact in helping make the Pacific In-vitaitonal one of the best tournaments in the country. What’s she like?JF | Oh man, my mom is my inspiration, both her and my dad but my mom for her work ethic and attitude. We call her the energizer bunny; she works 25-hour days, seven days a week. She’ll respond to an e-mail at 3 or 4 in the morning. She’s one of the most successful executives in the country for a reason. I get to pick her brain and ask her questions, and I’m extremely lucky for those opportunities.

TM | Most famous person in your phone? JF | That’s a good question. That’s a tough choice between Hollywood pro-ducers and the president of Coca-Cola.TM | People we’d know...JF | I’d say Ernie Els.TM | C’mon...JF | Yeah, we played golf this summer at Wentworth in England.

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