2018 USC Men’s Golf (L-R): Head Coach Andrea Gaston, Tiffany Chan, Muni He, Robynn Ree, Victoria Morgan, Allisen Corpuz, Gabriella Then, Assistant Coach Stewart Burke USC Golf 2017-2018 USC Men’s Golf Schedule DATE EVENT SITE Sept. 15-17 Fighting Illini Invitational Chicago, Ill. Sept. 24-26 Trinity Forest Invitational University Park, Texas Oct. 1-3 Nike Collegiate Invitational Portland, Ore. Oct. 16-17 Bill Cullum Invitational Simi Valley, Calif. Nov. 6-7 Saint Mary's Invitational Pebble Beach, Calif. Feb. 1-3 Amer Ari Invitational Waikoloa, Hawaii Feb. 19-21 The Prestige at PGA West Indian Welss, Calif March 5-7 UNLV Southern Highlands Collegiate Las Vegas, Nevada March 29-31 The Goodwin Palo Alto, Calif. April 7-8 Western Intercollegiate Santa Cruz, Calif. April 28-30 Pac-12 Championships (USC Host) Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. May 14-16 NCAA Championships Regional TBD May 24-30 NCAA Championships Stillwater, Okla. 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(Northwood/New Mexico) Kaito Onishi 5-10 Freshman Bradenton, Calif. (IMG Academy) Ing Ratanavadi 5-7 RS Sophomore Bangkok, Thailand (NIST International School) Ryan Slater 5-9 RS Sophomore Gilroy, Calif. (Monte Vista Christian) Justin Suh 5-8 Junior San Jose, Calif. (Evergreen Valley) Kyle Suppa 5-9 Sophomore Honolulu, Hawaii (Punahou School) Issei Tanabe 5-11 Freshman Huntington Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei) Men's Head Coach: Chris Zambri (12th year), USC 1993 Assistant Coach: Justin Silverstein (2nd year), Arizona 2009 2017-2018 Trojan Men's Golf Media Guide — PAGE 1 USC Golf Chris Zambri Head Coach • 12th Year • 2008 GCAA/Pacific Region/Pac-10 Coach of the Year • 2015 GCAA West Region Coach of the Year • 2007 and 2011 Pac-10 Champions • Winner of 27 tournaments with 23 individual wins in first 11 seasons Chris Zambri, a former USC All-Pac-10 performer and longtime Na- The Trojans qualified for the NCAA Championships final field of 30 teams tionwide Tour veteran, is in his 12th year as USC's men's golf head coach, after finishing third at the NCAA Bremerton Regional. At the NCAAs, USC establishing himself as one of the top coaches in the nation with three finished fifth after 72 holes of stroke play to earn a spot in the eight-team consecutive NCAA Championships quarterfinal match-play appearances match play final. USC, as the No. 5 seed, faced No. 4 seed and second- – including one final and one semifinal berth -- among 11 straight trips ranked Texas in the quarterfinals and upset the Longhorns, 4-1, Crocker to the NCAA Championships final week. clinching the win on his first extra hole to complement victories by Hoey Zambri's teams have won 27 events (as of the end of the 2016-17 and junior Bobby Gojuangco. The Trojans then downed No. 1 seed and season), including conference titles in 2007 and 2011 and NCAA Region- fourth-ranked Illinois, 3.5-1.5, in the semifinals. Gojuangco and Hoey als in 2008, 2012 and 2017. His 2015 team was a program-best NCAA won again and senior Eric Sugimoto provided the clincher after winning Championships runner-up, followed up by an NCAA semifinal finish in the 17th hole. USC, which had never finished better than third place in 2016 and a quarterfinal appearance in 2017. His 2008 team came within program history (something it had done seven times), then battled eventual three strokes of first place at the NCAAs. Trojan golfers have also won 23 champion LSU deep into all five matches before ultimately falling, 4-1. individual crowns under Zambri (as of the end of the 2016-17 season). The 2013-14 Trojans featured a pair of PING All-American third USC’s current streak of 11 consecutive NCAA final appearances, all teamers in freshman Hoey and junior Anthony Paolucci, who led the under Zambri, is tied for the nation’s longest active run while Troy is one team to the eighth straight NCAA Championship final under Zambri. The of only three schools to advance out of NCAA regional play each season squad won once and posted six top 3 finishes and tied for fourth in a tight since it was split into six sections in 2009. USC is also one of just three NCAA Sugar Grove Regional to earn a spot into the NCAA final. Hoey schools to reach the NCAA match play quarterfinals for the past three was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year with one of the top seasons in years. In fact, Troy’s streak of three straight top 8 finishes is its best since USC golf history, leading USC in stroke average (71.36), top 10 finishes five top 7 results in a row between 1973-77. (eight), rounds in the 60s (16), birdies (165) and eagles (eight). Hoey and The Trojans, in Zambri’s 11th year, posted five tournament wins in Paolucci earned 2014 GCAA All-West Region honors, Paolucci was All- 2016-17, its most since the 2007-08 season, and reached the NCAA Pac-12 second team and three others earned honorable mention honors. Championships quarterfinals before falling to Illinois, 3-1-1. USC’s five Hoey also represented the U.S. on the 2014 Palmer Cup team. victories marks the third year in a row with three or more wins. Senior The Trojans won twice in 2012-13, and used a fourth-place NCAA Rico Hoey earned 2017 Golfweek All-American first team and PING All- Pullman Regional result to advance to their seventh straight NCAA final, American second team honors while junior Sean Crocker earned PING where they tied for 23rd. The team won back-to-back titles mid-season at and Golfweek second team honors and sophomore Justin Suh claimed The Prestige at PGA West and at the North Ranch Intercollegiate. Senior All-American third team in both. All three golfers earned 2017 PING Sam Smith and freshman Yi Keun Chang both earned PING All-American All-Region and All-Pac-12 first team status while junior Jonah Texeira and honorable mention and All-Pac-12 second team honors and finished 1-2 freshman Cheng Jin were Pac-12 honorable mention picks. Hoey joined in stroke average on the team. Trojan great and All-American Sam Randolph as the only Trojans to claim USC hosted the NCAA Championships at The Riveria in Palisades, first-team status four straight years. Calif., in Zambri's sixth season at the helm in 2011-12. The Trojans punched USC's 2015-16 squad made its second straight deep run at the their ticket to the NCAA final after a win at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, NCAA Championships in Zambri's 10th season at the helm, reaching the one of two victories on the year (the other at the Gifford Collegiate). The match play semifinals, where it fell to Texas, 4-1, after a quarterfinal win Trojans did not make match play, however, tying for 15th. Senior Steve Lim over Vanderbilt by the same score. Troy, which won three regular season and sophomore Jeffrey Kang each earned PING All-American honorable titles for the second year in a row, reached the NCAA match play bracket mention honors while Lim earned All-Pac-12 first team honors and Kang after tying for fourth in the 72-hole stroke play. Hoey earned GCAA second team. The duo finished 1-2 in stroke average and also each won All-American second team honors while Suh was a GCAA honorable an event, Lim in the final fall event at the Gifford Collegiate, Kang to open mention pick. Hoey joined Crocker and Texeira on the PING All-West the spring season at the Amer Ari at Waikoloa Beach. Region team. Hoey was an All-Pac-12 first teamer, Crocker and Texeira The 2010-11 Trojans made their fifth trip in a row to the NCAA Cham- earned second-team notice, true senior Andrew Levitt was an honorable pionships finals in Zambri's fifth year at the helm and won the Pac-10 title mention selection and Suh was tabbed to the All-Pac-12 Freshman team. for the second time in five years. Zambri's squad won twice on the season, USC earned its 10th-straight trip to the NCAA Championships final field getting hot in the spring. Troy claimed the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, after a third at the NCAA Albuquerque regional, which followed a fifth at took second at the Western Intercollegiate and then won the Pac-10 title (in the Pac-12 Championships. a playoff). In addition to the conference crown, sophomore Martin Trainer In 2014-15, Zambri led the Trojans to a program-best NCAA runner-up won a seven-hole playoff for the individual title.