Nov. 5, 2004
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Briefly
The Loyola Marymount University men's golf team will play in the final tournament of the Fall 2004 season when they travel to the Cal State Northridge/Bill Cullum Countrywide Home Loans Intercollegiate on Nov. 8-9 at Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley. This is the sixth straight year the Lions will play in the CSUN tournament.
This Week
The Lions made their first appearance in the CSUN Intercollegiate in 1999. Their best finish came on Oct. 17, 2000 when they finished 13th out of 19 teams with a 933. Traditionally known as one of the tougher tournaments the Lions will play at, this year will be no different. Head Coach Alex Galvan considers the Wood Ranch Golf Club one of the tougher courses the Lions play each and every year and the young squad will be tested. Playing for the Lions will be Jeremy Bovill, Chaz Inouye, Jason D'Amore, Brendan von Doehren and Jason Wilk. Also playing for the Lions as an individual will be newcomer Josh Escobedo, who joins the team as a walk-on from Tucson, AZ.
The Course
Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley is a Par-7 course that hits 6,972 yards from the tournament tees. The fairways afford generous landing areas, but if the golfer finds it in the rough, it could be trouble. The greens are medium to large in size and vary in undulation. Water hazards (lakes, creeks, and streams) come into play on eleven holes. The signature hole is #13, a 196-yard, par 3, requiring a tee shot to an island green. The club previously hosted the GTE Senior Classic.
Santa Clara Invitational
After the first two rounds featured just one golfer earn a round under par, the scores came back down as the Loyola Marymount University men's golf team had a pair of golfers finish in the top-15 at the 2004 Santa Clara Men's Invitational at the Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose on Oct. 26. Freshman Jason D'Amore earned his third consecutive top-15 finish as he made a huge charge in the final round with a two-under par 70 to finish in a tie for eighth place. He finished with a seven-over 223 in the three-round tournament. Earning his best finish of the new season was sophomore Brendan von Doehren with a 14th-place tie. He shot a one-under par 71 on Tuesday to finish with a 225 in the tournament. As a team the Lions had an impressive 294 on the round to finish in seventh place overall. Rounding out the Lions scores were junior Chaz Inouye (232, t-31st), sophomore Jason Wilk (239, t-46th) and freshman Jeremy Bovill (249, 52nd).
Missouri Bluffs Challenge
The Loyola Marymount men's golf team improved its team score in each of the three rounds at the Missouri Bluffs Challenge in St. Charles, MO, on Tuesday, as freshman Jason D'Amore took 12th place with a three-round score of 215. Making the biggest jump in the Challenge was junior Chaz Inouye, who posted a final round 72 to jump eight places on Tuesday to finish in a tie for 32nd. Inouye shot a three-round total of 221, jumping eight spots. D'Amore also posted a 72 in the final day as both he had Inouye were in the top-15 scores for the day out of the field of 75 golfers. D'Amore posted rounds of 73, 70 and 72 to finish leading the Lions as a team for the third time in as many tournaments. Inouye and D'Amore helped the Lions get better with each day as they posted a 308 in the first round, 303 in round two and a 298 on Tuesday. LMU finished 13th on the tournament. Freshman Jeremy Bovill finished with a three-round 237 to place in a tie for 66th. Rounding out the Lions scores were sophomores Brendan von Doehren with a 238 and Jason Wilk with a 252.
Vandal Classic
Playing in just his second collegiate tournament, LMU freshman Jason D'Amore shot a 10-under 203 to win the 2004 Vandal Fall Classic on Monday afternoon in Moscow, ID. As a team, the Lions posted the second best score in the final round to move up three spots to finish fourth overall. D'Amore shot rounds of 71, 64 and 68 on the par-71 course to post a two-stroke win in the field of 59 golfers at the Vandal Classic. His 54-hole total of 203 is the best in school history, shattering the old record of 209 set by Mike Farrell on March 4, 2002. D'Amore tied the school record for a single round score of 64 in round two on Sunday. In the final round the Lions finished with a team score of 284, trailing only host Idaho on the day. The score helped the Lions move from seventh to fourth overall in the nine-team tournament. D'Amore's win is the first individual title since Mike Farrell won the Cal State San Marcos Invitational on March 4, 2002 and is just the sixth since 1990. Helping the Lions move up in the standings was junior Chaz Inouye and junior Dean Delaye, both posting a tournament best 71 in the final round. Delaye and sophomore Brendan von Doehren each finished in a tie for 24th with three-round totals of 219. Inouye finished in a tie for 30th with a score of 221. Rounding out the Lions' scoring was sophomore Jason Wilk in 53rd with a 228.
Round One
The Loyola Marymount University men's golf team began the 2004-05 season with play in the UCLA Gold Rush California Collegiate Golf Showcase held Sept. 17-18 at the PGA Southern California Golf Club. The Lions earned an impressive showing from freshman Jason D'Amore in his debut at LMU, finishing 31st out of 175 golfers. LMU finished the tournament in 25th place overall as host UCLA earned the win. Junior Chaz Inouye, who has led the Lions in low average each of the last two years, finished with a 234, hitting a 75 in round one and round three. Rounding out the scores for the Lions was Brendan von Doehren with a 240, shooting a two-over 74 in round one, with a 78 in round two and an 88 in the final round. Freshman Jeremy Bovill shot a 244 and fellow freshman Gregg Gauvin hit a 261.
What A Debut
The true freshman Jason D'Amore from Mira Costa High School started his collegiate career with a two-under par 70 in the first round. He finished with a second round 75 and a third round 73 to place in a tie for 31st with a two-over 218. For the tournament he finished with 13 birdies. He one-upped himself with his record-setting performance at the Vandal Fall Classic just a week later. After shooting a first-round 71, D'Amore vaulted to first place after two rounds, shooting a record-tying 64 in the second round. The 64 tied Nicolas Beauvy's single round score set in 1981. D'Amore would remain in first place the entire third round thanks to his 68 to finish 10-under for the tournament. The three-round 203 shattered the school's record of 209 set by Mike Farrell in 2002. After the Lions first four tournaments, he leads the team with a 71.6 average over the course of 12 rounds of golf.
All-WCC, Again
Sophomore Chaz Inouye of the Loyola Marymount University men's golf team set history with his eighth place finish in the 2004 West Coast Conference Championships at Riverbend Golf Club in Madera, Calif. The Wailuku, Hi, native became the first Lion to earn All-WCC honors in back-to-back seasons. Inouye, who finished third in his first season in 2003 to earn WCC Freshman of the Year honors, finished 2004's final round with a 76 to earn a three-round total of 219. He finished alone in eighth place and became the first LMU player in program history to have two top-10 finishes in the WCC Championship, both coming in back-to-back seasons. The top-10 finish allowed Inouye to earn WCC All-Conference Honorable Mention honors. On the season Inouye finished leading the Lions with a round average of 75.19, a half stroke higher than his average as a freshman.
Academic Honors
Loyola Marymount athletics placed five student-athletes on the West Coast Conference's Spring All-Academic team, the conference announced. Golf's Chaz Inouye, men's tennis' Carlos Malet, and Naomi Hoogestefer, Caitlin McClain, and Erin Ludwig of women's crew all earned the academic all-conference honor. This season, Inouye became the first LMU golfer to twice finish in the top 10 at the WCC Championships and the first to earn back-to-back All-WCC recognition. The sophomore, who was the 2003 WCC Freshman Golfer of the Year, holds a 3.37 cumulative grade point average in communication studies.
In the Pros
Former golfer and 1997 graduate of Loyola Marymount University Scott Heyn qualified for the PGA Tour's Nissan Open, which opened play Feb. 18 at the Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif. Heyn played for the Lions' golf team from 1995-97 and had an impressive career. He was the first LMU player to earn all-conference honors in the West Coast Conference. He finished his senior season with a fourth place finish in the WCC Championships. In his career at LMU, Heyn led the Lions for low score in six tournaments, including his best three-round finish of 217 at the Santa Clara Invitational on Nov. 19, 1996. He finished in fifth place out of 44 golfers with a score of one-over par.
Head Coach
Alex Galvan became just the second head coach of the Loyola Marymount University men's golf team in the history of the program when he was hired in 2002. In two seasons with the program, Galvan has led the team to a pair of fifth place finishes in the West Coast Conference Championships. In the process, however, he has built a team with its best recruitting classes. For the first time in program history the team had a WCC Freshman of the Year in 2003 when Chaz Inouye took third in the WCCs a year ago. Galvan then helped Inouye earn All-WCC honorable mention honors in 2004, the first time a player has earned back-to-back WCC honors in program history.
