SAN ANTONIO — UTSA will tee off the spring season on Sunday-Tuesday, Feb. 1-3, at the Compadres Collegiate, which will be hosted by UTRGV at Iberostar Playa Paraiso Golf Club (par 71/6,701 yards) in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
The Roadrunners will travel Sam Acharya, Brayden Bare, Joshua Hong, Jacob King, David Martinez and Francisco Solorza for the three-day, 54-hole, stroke-play tournament.
UTSA will compete against Bellarmine, Drake, Morehead State, North Texas, Northern Colorado, ULM, UTRGV and Western Carolina.
The field will play 18 holes each day. Live scoring will be provided online at scoreboard.clippd.com
This marks the Roadrunners’ second straight trip to this annual event. Last year when it was held under the name Vaqueros Intercollegiate, UTSA placed fifth behind Martinez’s tie for 10th at 2-over-par 218 (73-73-72).
The Roadrunners are coming off a fall campaign that saw them record a pair of top-10 team finishes, seventh at the Highlands Invitational and eighth at the Badger Invitational.
Hong paces the team with a 72.0 stroke average. The true freshman from Guadalajara, Mexico, logged seven par-or-better scorecards over 12 rounds headlined by a 3-under 69 in the final round of the Argent Financial Classic where he turned in a 7-under 209 (70-70-69) to tie for ninth.
Bare boasts the third-best scoring average on the squad with a 73.92 mark. The redshirt junior out of Waco has posted par or better in four of 12 rounds and his top 54-hole score is a 1-over 217 (75-73-69) at the Argent Financial Classic.
King carries a 75.17 stroke average through six rounds and the senior from Boerne has a top 54-hole score of 223 (76-72-75) at the Badger Invitational.
Solorza has appeared in three tournaments and owns a 76.0 scoring average. The Guadalajara, Mexico, native posted his top score of 73, which closed out a 224, at the Argent Financial Classic.
Martinez is set for his first competition of his sophomore season. Last year, he posted a 74.33 average in 12 rounds. The Houston native’s top 54-hole total was a 1-under 215 (71-70-74) at the Desert Intercollegiate, while his top finish with the 10th-place tie at the Vaqueros Intercollegiate.
Acharya, a freshman from Kathmandu, Nepal, will be making is UTSA debut. He joined the Roadrunners as the No. 1-ranked amateur golfer in his native country. He owns numerous victories during his career, including becoming the first Nepali to capture the Bangladesh Amateur Golf Championship with a 291 (69-69-80-73) last year.
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