The UTEP men’s golf team is coming off a seventh-place finish out of 15 teams at the 71st Annual Western Intercollegiate Tournament in Santa Cruz, California. The Miners, who are no. 55 in the nation, shot 34-over 1,084 (361-356-367) in a tournament that featured five top-25 teams, including no. 1 Southern California, who won the team title. UTEP placed higher than two of those five ranked teams (no. 17 Texas and no. 25 Arizona State) in the final standings.
The seventh-place finish gave the Miners their fifth straight and 10th overall top-10 finish out of 11 tournaments this season with a best 54 of 829.