CARLSBAD, Calif. — Connor Williams estimates he has played roughly 100 rounds of golf at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa.
The North Course is hosting this week's 2025 NCAA Men's Golf Championship, where Williams and his Arizona State teammates have raced to the lead at the halfway point of stroke play. The Sun Devils sit at 13 under after 36 holes, three strokes in front of Oklahoma and five ahead of defending national champion Auburn, and Williams is tied for the individual lead at 9-under 135.
Williams grew up in Escondido, a little more than half an hour from Carlsbad, and he credit his comfortability at the course with his blazing start.