Category: Pepperdine Golf

Following 10 regular-season events, the Pepperdine Golf Tour came to an end with the match-play Tour Championship, held at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. After upsets galore, the winner was the #4 seed, Joshua McCarthy. The regular-season champion and #1 seed, Joe Highsmith, was ousted in the quarterfinals, as was #3 seed Clay Feagler.…

Joe Highsmith was nearly flawless during the third round at Augusta National, and that lifted him to his team-best third victory in the tour’s final regular-season event. Clay Feagler went into the final round with a four-shot lead over Highsmith but couldn’t overcome a brutal start. His lead was erased after just four holes, and…

In the first 28 rounds of the tour, there wasn’t a single hole-in-one. In the 29th round — the penultimate round of the season — there were three! The second round at Augusta National had some fireworks, led by the aces by Clay Feagler, Joe Highsmith and Joey Vrzich. Feagler has been near-flawless through two…

Augusta National will be a tough test for the 10th and final tournament of the regular season, but a few Waves got off to good starts, most notably Clay Feagler with a 4-under 68 and Joe Highsmith with a 3-under 69. Only two other Waves finished below-par on the day, as Johnny Mac Arthur and…

Eighteen holes wasn’t enough as Joshua McCarthy and Sahith Theegala put together the best back-and-forth final-round competition of the season. On the first playoff hole iat East Lake Golf Club, McCarthy recorded a birdie and Theegala could only par, giving McCarthy his second victory of the season at the tour’s penultimate regular-season event. Both golfers…

Joshua McCarthy had a big second round at East Lake Golf Club to jump into the lead. Sahith Theegala couldn’t duplicate his first-round success, but he sits just one stroke behind heading into the final round. Joe Highsmith and Austin Murphy are also in contention, while a few others aren’t out of it yet. Round…

After a run of head-scratching results, is Sahith Theegala back? He fired a 9-under 61 to grab a big lead after the first round at East Lake Golf Club. Theegala hasn’t finished better than fifth in each of the last five tournaments. He won the second tournament of the season but there hasn’t been much…

The eighth tournament of the season resulted in the seventh different winner. It was a close, exciting finish that required a playoff, and it was Derek Hitchner that rallied to capture the title at the Torrey Pines North Course. The playoff came down to Hitchner and Cody McManus, so it would have been a first-time…

A number of Waves went very low during round 2 at the Torrey Pines North Course, setting up what should be a a very competitive finish. RJ Manke was excellent for the second straight round, and his 11-under 133 has given him a one-stroke lead. Five teammates are within four shots. Joshua McCarthy is just…