LAST TIME OUT

• The Cougars placed fourth at The Patriot Invitational on March 21 with a 44-over 896, 10 strokes behind winner Dartmouth College. 
• Madison Murr was CSUSM's top golfer with a share of third place after recording a 4-over 217. 
• Murr collected her third CCAA Golf of the Week honor this spring (see below). 

SAN MARCOS SHOOTOUT

• This is first time in program history that CSUSM has hosted the San Marcos Shootout. 
• The Cougars have never hosted an event at Temecula Creek Inn Golf Club. 

COUGAR OUTLOOK

• This year's squad will feature three new Cougars in the lineup — freshmen Lynn Pham and Sade Jackson as well as Kansas transfer Caroline Wales. 
• Returning for a fifth year, Breann Horn was a member of the 2019 NCAA National Championship Runner-Up team as well as a 2022 WGCA All-American first team honoree. 
• The Cougars won their third consecutive CCAA Championship title in 2022, defeating second-place Cal State LA by 18 strokes. 
• Then-freshman Makenna Cabardo was named the CCAA Championship Runner-Up after carding a 4-under 68 in the final round. 
• CSUSM won four of its eight tournaments in 2021-22 including its own Fujikura Invitational which featured 19 teams from all over the United States.  
• The Cougars moved up to No. 14 this week in the first regular-season poll after being ranked No. 15 in the 2022-23 WGCA Coaches Preseason Poll. CSUSM is ranked No. 10 in the latest Golfstat.com National Poll. 

THE HUTTON FILE

• Head coach Greg Hutton has been at the helm of the men's program since the 2010-11 season and was named the women's head coach in 2014.
• In his 13 years as the Cougar men's coach and nine years as the Cougar women's coach, Hutton has led CSUSM to 53 tournament victories (29 women/24 men). 
• The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
• Under Hutton's leadership, the women's team won CSUSM's first CCAA Championship in school history in 2018 and the Cougars defended their title in 2019 and 2022
• In CSUSM's first year of being a full-fledged NCAA Division II member in 2017-18, the Cougar men's and women's golf teams each qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships.