SAN MARCOS, Calif. –  The No. 9 Cal State San Marcos women's golf team will wrap up its fall season this week in Hawaii, competing in the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate on Oct. 21-22 and Hawai'i Hilo Southwest Airlines Hawai'i Pacific Shark Shootout on Oct. 25-26.

LAST TIME OUT

• CSUSM destroyed the program's 54-hole tournament record with a 34-under 830 (279-270-281), recording a one-stroke victory over top-ranked Dallas Baptist at the National Preview in Boulder City, Nevada.
• Madison Murr also set a new CSUSM 54-hole record with her 14-under 202 (70-66-66) performance that earned her runner-up honors.
• Murr captured her second consecutive CCAA Golfer of the Week honor, the ninth of her career. 

TOURNAMENT 3 |  DENNIS ROSE INTERCOLLEGIATE
Dates	Monday, Oct. 21 - Tuesday, Oct. 22
Tee Time	10:30 a.m. PST (shotgun)
Location	Waikoloa, Hawaii
Course	Village Course (par 72, 6,109 yards)
Live Scoring	GolfStat
CSUSM Team	Madison Murr  Regan Barton  Diana Delgado  Makenna Cabardo  Hannah Anderson
Participating Teams	Biola, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Marcos, Colorado Mesa, Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii Pacific, Missouri - St. Louis, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Simon Fraser, Sonoma State, UT Tyler, Vanguard, Western Washington

DENNIS ROSE INTERCOLLEGIATE 

• This is CSUSM's fourth time competing in the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate with the Cougars making their debut on Oct. 29-30, 2007. CSUSM took fifth place (1012, +148) out of 12 teams and was led by Carly Ludwig (247, +31) who tied for 8th.  
• This marks the 15th time UHH will host the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate on the women's side.
• Last season, then-No. 10 CSUSM broke program records while picking up its fourth consecutive tournament win of the fall season. The Cougars posted a 13-under 563 (280-283) to win the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate by 21 strokes.
• Murr had collected her third individual medalist honor of the 2023 fall season after posting an 11-under 133. She followed up her opening round of 69 with a collegiate career-best 64.

 

TOURNAMENT 4 | SOUTHWEST AIRLINES HPU SHARK SHOOTOUT
Dates	Friday, Oct. 26 - Saturday, Oct. 27
Tee Time	TBA (shotgun)
Location	Kohala Coast, Hawaii
Course	Mauna Lani Resort Golf Course
Live Scoring	Clippd
CSUSM Team	TBD
Participating Teams	Biola, Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii Pacific, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Marcos, Point Loma, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Simon Fraser, Sonoma State, UT Permian Basin, Vanguard, Westminster, West Texas A&M, Western Washington

 

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES HPU SHARKS SHOOTOUT

• This is CSUSM's third time competing in the HPU Shark Shootout. 
• Hawai'i Pacific hosted the inaugural Shark Shootout for the women's golf team in 2021-22 and featured only three universities – Hawai'i Pacific, Hawai'i-Hilo and University of Hawai'i. 
• In 2023, the then-No. 10 Cougars won their third consecutive tournament of the fall season with an 18-over 578 at the Southwest Airlines Hawaii Pacific Sharks Shootout. 
• Madison Murr shot under par for the second consecutive day to claim the individual medalist honors with a 3-under 137 (68-69), winning by five strokes.

  

COUGAR OUTLOOK

• For the second consecutive year, the squad added two new Cougars in the lineup — freshmen Faith Hamstreet and Abby Sickles. 
• The Cougars won their fifth consecutive CCAA Championship title in 2024, defeating second-place Cal State Monterey Bay by 27 strokes. 
• Regan Barton become CSUSM's fourth CCAA Champion, recording a 2-under 214 at the Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club. 
• After a fifth-place finish in the NCAA West Regional, CSUSM made its third appearance in the NCAA National Championships, finishing 12th in stroke play. 

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.
• Hutton has been named CCAA Coach of the Year a total of seven times – six times on the women's side and one time on the men's side. 
• The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
• CSUSM men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022. 
• 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, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 
• In 2023, the CSUSM men's team captured its first-ever CCAA Championship Tournament Title, defeating runner-up Cal State Monterey by one stroke on April 19 at the Victory Club in Riverside. 
• 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.