SAN MARCOS, Calif. –  The Cal State San Marcos men's golf team will head to Goodyear, Arizona, for the RJGA Palm Valley Classic on April 7-8, playing at the Palm Valley Golf Club. 

LAST TIME OUT

• The Cougars captured their first team title of the season with a 14-under 850 to win the Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout hosted by Cal State East Bay on March 11. 
• Greg Mouser claimed his second-career individual medalist honor with a 9-under 207 (67-66-74).
• CSUSM won the tournament by two strokes, defeating second-place Sonoma State ( 852, -12). 
• Mouser earned his fourth career CCAA Golfer of the Week honor. 

 

TOURNAMENT 8 | RJGA PALM VALLEY CLASSIC
Dates	Monday, April 7 - Tuesday, April 8
Times	7:30 a.m (shotgun both days)
Location	Goodyear, Ariz.
Course	Palm Valley GC (par 72)
Live Scoring	GolfStat
CSUSM Team	Greg Mouser  Jason McElroy   Arman Rahgozar  Nick Mouser   Vinny Bengtson Ind. Gavin McCormick
Participating Teams	Arkansas-Fort Smith, Cal State East Bay, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal State San Marcos, Colorado Mesa, Colorado State-Pueblo, Embry-Riddle Fort Lewis, Lubbock Christian, Midwestern State (AZ), Montana State Billings, Northeastern State, Saint Martin's, Texas A&M International, Texas Permian Basin, Western New Mexico,

RJGA PALM VALLEY CLASSIC

• This is the first time CSUSM will be competing in the RJGA Palm Valley Classic. 
• Colorado Christian won the RJGA Palm Valley Classic in 2024 with a 37-under 827. 
• Western New Mexico's Adam Niles was crowned the 2024 individual medalist with a 13-under 203 (67-66-70). 

COUGAR OUTLOOK

• With nine returners from the 2023-24 team, this year's squad has only one new face with the addition of Owen Otto. 
• The 2023-24 team finished in the top 5 in seven of its 11 tournaments last year. 
• The Cougars saw last season come to an end with a 16th-place finish in the NCAA West/South Central Regional Championship. 

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 men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022. 
• The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
• 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. 
• 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 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.