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USC Men's Golf Returns To Arizona For N.I.T. In Tucson
March 16, 2023 | Men's Golf
The USC men's golf team, with a pair of medalist honors to its credit in the fall, travels to Arizona this week for the two-day N.I.T., Friday and Saturday (March 17-18) at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson.
Tournament Information
The Arizona-hosted event features the Wildcats, Arizona State, Colorado State, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pepperdine, San Diego, San Diego State, USC and Wyoming.
Teams are scheduled to play 36 holes Friday, 18 Saturday. Results are available at Golfstat.
USC's starting lineup will feature senior Jack Boulger, junior Krando Nishiba, sophomores Jackson Rivera and Gavin Aurilia and freshman Mahanth Chirravuri. Shane Ffrench will play individually.
Rivera fired his collegiate best 63 in the final round of the event as a freshman last year, which is tied for the second-lowest round in tournament history. He led USC with a tie for 21st in the event in 2022 while the Trojans finished 10th overall. It was USC's first 63 since Kaito Onishi in November of 2017 and the Trojans' first 9-under effort since Rico Hoey earlier that year in February.
Former Trojan Justin Suh's 54-hole, 16-under 200 in 2019, which included a 64, is tied for the fourth-lowest score in tournament history
SEASON-OPENING SUCCESS
The Trojans, in their third year under Head Coach J.T. Higgins and assistant coach Matt Walton, opened the 2022-23 season with a second at the Husky Invitational.
Sophomore Jackson Rivera won the Husky Invitational by four strokes while senior Jack Boulger won the Husky Individual Invitational by six — both the first titles of their collegiate careers — while the USC men's team finished second at the Gold Mountain G.C. in Bremerton, Wash., to kick off the 2022-23 season. USC combined for a three-round 7-over 871 (293-281-297), finishing three strokes back of first-place Washington State and two ahead of third-place and host Washington.
Rivera never wavered during the final round and maintained at least a two-stroke lead throughout Tuesday and finished at 8-under 208 (67-70-71), closing with a birdie on 18. Rivera, who posted a pair of sixth-place finishes and a 10th as a freshman, has four top 10s in his past five starts. Boulger won going away on Gold Mountain's Cascade Course at 12-under 201 (68-67-66), posting his best three rounds in Cardinal and Gold.
Freshman Mahanth Chirravuri led USC at the Inverness Intercollegiate with a tie for 20th at 6-over. Chirravuri and Rivera topped USC at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational at 6-over, tied for 47th.
Chirravuri topped USC at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate with a tie for 20th at 2-under 214, the second time he'd been USC's top finisher while also co-leading once with Rivera. Sophomore Gavin Aurilia topped USC's efforts in the fall finale at the Cal Poly Invitational, tying for 23rd at 1-over 217 as USC tied for eighth overall.
Chirravuri led USC in its first two spring events, tying for 23rd at the Southwestern Invitational and tying for 19th at the John A. Burns Invitational. Krando Nishiba and Aurilia topped the Trojans' efforts in the Desert Mountain Collegiate, tying for 15th.
Overall, Chirravuri has led USC a team-best four times and has a team-best five top 25 finishes. He boasts team bests in stroke average (72.58) and rounds of par or better (10) and is tied for the team lead in counting rounds (20.5), rounds under par (seven) and rounds in the 60s (five).
Boulger has eight rounds of par or better the year and a team-co-leading seven under par while Rivera has eight rounds of par or better and six under par. Boulger is second on the team in stroke average (72.95) while Rivera is third (73.29).
BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Trojans return six golfers from last year's squad, led by Rivera, who was All-West Region as well as All-Pac-12 second team during a freshman season that saw him start all 12 tournaments, leading the team in stroke average (71.70), rounds in the 60s (nine), rounds under par (20) and rounds of par or better (23).
He posted a team-best three top 10 finishes, six top 18s and seven top 21s and was USC's top finisher in eight of 11 events. Two of his top 10 results came in the postseason. He tied for sixth at the Pac-12 Championships at par 284 (73-68-74-69) and followed that with a tie for 10th at the NCAA Stockton Regional at 7-under 209 (68-71-70).
Also back are graduate senior Jack Boulger, senior Parker Sisk, juniors Krando Nishiba and Shane Ffrench and sophomore Gavin Aurilia. The Trojans welcome a pair of freshmen in Mahanth Chirravuri from Arizona and Rocky Chapman from the U.K.
Aurilia started nine times last year, Ffrench eight times, Nishiba seven times, Boulger six times and Sisk twice.
Chirravuri was a 2020 Rolex/AJGA All-American honorable mention selection and won the Arizona state title in 2020 at 10-under while helping his school to state team titles in 2019, 2020 and 2021, finishing third individually in 2021. Chapman is a talented up-and-coming golfer from England who will compete for starting time.
Tournament Information
The Arizona-hosted event features the Wildcats, Arizona State, Colorado State, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pepperdine, San Diego, San Diego State, USC and Wyoming.
Teams are scheduled to play 36 holes Friday, 18 Saturday. Results are available at Golfstat.
USC's starting lineup will feature senior Jack Boulger, junior Krando Nishiba, sophomores Jackson Rivera and Gavin Aurilia and freshman Mahanth Chirravuri. Shane Ffrench will play individually.
Rivera fired his collegiate best 63 in the final round of the event as a freshman last year, which is tied for the second-lowest round in tournament history. He led USC with a tie for 21st in the event in 2022 while the Trojans finished 10th overall. It was USC's first 63 since Kaito Onishi in November of 2017 and the Trojans' first 9-under effort since Rico Hoey earlier that year in February.
Former Trojan Justin Suh's 54-hole, 16-under 200 in 2019, which included a 64, is tied for the fourth-lowest score in tournament history
SEASON-OPENING SUCCESS
The Trojans, in their third year under Head Coach J.T. Higgins and assistant coach Matt Walton, opened the 2022-23 season with a second at the Husky Invitational.
Sophomore Jackson Rivera won the Husky Invitational by four strokes while senior Jack Boulger won the Husky Individual Invitational by six — both the first titles of their collegiate careers — while the USC men's team finished second at the Gold Mountain G.C. in Bremerton, Wash., to kick off the 2022-23 season. USC combined for a three-round 7-over 871 (293-281-297), finishing three strokes back of first-place Washington State and two ahead of third-place and host Washington.
Rivera never wavered during the final round and maintained at least a two-stroke lead throughout Tuesday and finished at 8-under 208 (67-70-71), closing with a birdie on 18. Rivera, who posted a pair of sixth-place finishes and a 10th as a freshman, has four top 10s in his past five starts. Boulger won going away on Gold Mountain's Cascade Course at 12-under 201 (68-67-66), posting his best three rounds in Cardinal and Gold.
Freshman Mahanth Chirravuri led USC at the Inverness Intercollegiate with a tie for 20th at 6-over. Chirravuri and Rivera topped USC at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational at 6-over, tied for 47th.
Chirravuri topped USC at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate with a tie for 20th at 2-under 214, the second time he'd been USC's top finisher while also co-leading once with Rivera. Sophomore Gavin Aurilia topped USC's efforts in the fall finale at the Cal Poly Invitational, tying for 23rd at 1-over 217 as USC tied for eighth overall.
Chirravuri led USC in its first two spring events, tying for 23rd at the Southwestern Invitational and tying for 19th at the John A. Burns Invitational. Krando Nishiba and Aurilia topped the Trojans' efforts in the Desert Mountain Collegiate, tying for 15th.
Overall, Chirravuri has led USC a team-best four times and has a team-best five top 25 finishes. He boasts team bests in stroke average (72.58) and rounds of par or better (10) and is tied for the team lead in counting rounds (20.5), rounds under par (seven) and rounds in the 60s (five).
Boulger has eight rounds of par or better the year and a team-co-leading seven under par while Rivera has eight rounds of par or better and six under par. Boulger is second on the team in stroke average (72.95) while Rivera is third (73.29).
BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Trojans return six golfers from last year's squad, led by Rivera, who was All-West Region as well as All-Pac-12 second team during a freshman season that saw him start all 12 tournaments, leading the team in stroke average (71.70), rounds in the 60s (nine), rounds under par (20) and rounds of par or better (23).
He posted a team-best three top 10 finishes, six top 18s and seven top 21s and was USC's top finisher in eight of 11 events. Two of his top 10 results came in the postseason. He tied for sixth at the Pac-12 Championships at par 284 (73-68-74-69) and followed that with a tie for 10th at the NCAA Stockton Regional at 7-under 209 (68-71-70).
Also back are graduate senior Jack Boulger, senior Parker Sisk, juniors Krando Nishiba and Shane Ffrench and sophomore Gavin Aurilia. The Trojans welcome a pair of freshmen in Mahanth Chirravuri from Arizona and Rocky Chapman from the U.K.
Aurilia started nine times last year, Ffrench eight times, Nishiba seven times, Boulger six times and Sisk twice.
Chirravuri was a 2020 Rolex/AJGA All-American honorable mention selection and won the Arizona state title in 2020 at 10-under while helping his school to state team titles in 2019, 2020 and 2021, finishing third individually in 2021. Chapman is a talented up-and-coming golfer from England who will compete for starting time.
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