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MALIBU, Calif. — Wrapping up the fall season, the No. 14/19 Pepperdine men’s golf team will play at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational, which runs from Friday through Sunday.
EVENT INFO
The Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational will be hosted by Georgia Tech at the par-72, 6,993-yard Golf Club of Georgia Lakeside course. There will be 54 holes of stroke play with one round being played on each day. Tee times begin at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT from the first tee and 9:20 a.m. ET/6:20 a.m. PT. from the 10th tee both Friday and Saturday. The first groups start at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT and 8:50 a.m. ET/5:50 a.m. PT, respectively, for Sunday’s final round.
THE FIELD
Along with Pepperdine, the field includes the hosting Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Boston College, Charlotte, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, LMU, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Led by No. 1 Virginia, six opponents are in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd and Bushnell/Golfweek D1 Coaches Poll top 25 rankings.
PEPPERDINE LINEUP
Pepperdine’s lineup consists of sophomore Luke Bailey, senior Mahanth Chirravuri, senior Brady Siravo, junior Willy Walsh and sophomore Byungho Lee.
TEE TIMES
Friday’s tee times are as follows:
9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 10 — Byungho Lee
9:31 a.m. ET/6:31 a.m. PT, hole 10 — Luke Bailey
9:42 a.m. ET/6:42 a.m. PT, hole 10 — Brady Siravo
9:53 a.m. ET/6:53 a.m. PT, hole 10 — Mahanth Chirravuri
10:04 a.m. ET/7:04 a.m. PT, hole 10 — Willy Walsh
LAST TIME OUT
Led by Willy Walsh’s second consecutive top-10 finish, the Waves placed fifth at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational Presented by Charles Schwab on Sept. 30. In the most competitive tournament in collegiate golf, the Waves had two players in the top 20 — Walsh and Mahanth Chirravuri, who finished in 17th — and posted the best final round of everyone in the field with a 2-under 278. Over the last two tournaments, the Waves have had a knack for finishing with the best final round.
PEPPERDINE IN THE RANKINGS
The Waves are No. 14 in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd top 25 rankings and No. 19 in the Bushnell/Golfweek D1 Coaches Poll. Individually, Mahanth Chirravuri leads the Waves at No. 5 in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd individual rankings, while Willy Walsh ranks No. 22 and Brady Siravo checks in at No. 27.
MAHANTH CHIRRAVURI
Pepperdine senior Mahanth Chirravuri made a slew of preseason watch lists earlier this fall. Ranked No. 10 in the PGA TOUR University rankings, Chirravuri made the Haskins Award Watch List, Golfweek named him a Second-Team Preseason All-American, plus he was a Third-Team Golf Channel Preseason All-American. He was the lone player from a non-Power 4 institution on all three preseason award lists.
Last year, Chirravuri was a Golfweek and PING All-American after tying for ninth place at the NCAA Championships. He was the seventh Wave in program history to earn a top-10 finish at NCAAs. The 2025 West Coast Conference Individual Champion and Golfer of the Year tied Michael Putnam for the second-most below-par rounds by a Wave in a single season with 23, plus he tied Joe Highsmith and Andrew Putnam for sixth for the most top-10 finishes in a single season with seven.
ROSTER
The Waves bring back six players from the squad that placed 12th at the 2025 NCAA Championships. Mahanth Chirravuri, Brady Siravo and Joshua Koo are the seniors on the squad, while Willy Walsh and Georgia Tech transfer Carson Kim round out the upperclassmen. Luke Bailey and Byungho Lee — both of whom have postseason experience — return for their sophomore seasons, while true freshmen Oscar Bach and Luke Dariotis are joining the team this year.
A standout transfer from Georgia Tech, Kim finished 38th at the NCAA Championships and tied for 18th at the Auburn Regional this past spring. As a freshman, he competed in 12 of Georgia Tech’s 13 events and earned match play wins at the NCAA Championship and the East Lake Cup for the Yellow Jackets.
2024-25
The Waves took 12th place at the 2025 NCAA Championships, which was the best finish of any school outside the Power-4 ranks. During the 2024-25 season, the Waves finished in the top-5 in seven of their 13 tournaments and won their 23rd West Coast Conference Championship. The squad finished T-5th at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, 5th at the NCAA Amherst Regional, 4th at the Sahalee Players Championships, 4th at the Southwestern Invitational, 3rd at the Western Intercollegiate, 2nd at the Tindall Invitational and 1st at the WCC Championships.
WAVES ON THE PGA TOUR
Four Pepperdine alumni are currently competing or have earned their PGA Tour cards this season. Sahith Theegala and Andrew Putnam have been playing for multiple years, while Joe Highsmith earned his tour card on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour, while William Mouw is the fourth Pepperdine alumnus with his Tour card.
BEARD
Former Pepperdine All-American Michael Beard is in his 14th season as the Waves’ head coach. He earned the Dave Williams Award as the Division I National Coach of the Year in 2020 after leading the Waves to the #1 ranking before the pandemic cancelled the season, then led Pepperdine to the NCAA title in 2021. He became the first WCC men’s golf coach ever to earn WCC Coach of the Year honors three consecutive years (beginning in 2016) and he extended that streak to six straight in 2022 (he and Gonzaga’s Mark Few are the only WCC coaches to win six straight Coach of the Year awards). Beard competed for the Waves between 1999-2002 and was a GCAA All-American honorable mention selection in both 2000 and 2002. He was the medalist at the 2000 NCAA West Regional and the 2002 WCC Championships and was a four-time All-WCC first teamer. After playing professionally for several years, he served as an assistant coach at Pepperdine for one season and helped the Waves to make the 2011 NCAA Championships. Beard returned to Pepperdine in December 2012 after spending the previous season-and-a-half as an assistant at Arizona State.
UP NEXT
Pepperdine begins its championship season by hosting the 47th annual Southwestern Invitational on Jan. 26-28, 2026.
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ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN’S GOLF
Pepperdine men’s golf has ranked among the elite collegiate golf programs in the nation, having won the NCAA Championship in 1997 and 2021. The program has won 24 WCC championships while reaching 28 NCAA Regionals and 14 NCAA Championships. With 30 All-American selections, the Waves currently have four active members of the PGA TOUR in 2025.
