Pac-10's and beyond...

Safe to say that our Pac-10 Championship did not go according to plan. It was once said that in golf, you are never as good as your best day...or never as bad as your worst day. The final round of our Pac-10 tourney was probably our worst day of the season. Not to dwell on the poor finish, we quickly regrouped yesterday with some individual meetings focusing on preparing for the NCAA Regional.

Not knowing where we will be shipped is fine by us...the 6 sites are all fantastic and each offer different tests for the teams in the field. Our guys are eager to find out where we will play next and are all excited about the upcoming event. Regionals is typically the toughest event of the year and our guys are excited for this opportunity to compete.

For now, it's back to the classroom for work on our academics. It was a crazy month of April and we have a little catching up to do on the books. Our last quarter was very successful as we placed 5 out of 8 guys on the honor roll (3.0 or higher) and 3 of those guys were presidential honor students (3.5 or higher). We are proud of the work that is being done by our team both in the classroom and on the golf course. Our goal here at UCLA is to have the most balanced group of student athletes in the country. Competing in everything we do.

Happy Easter! Bruins finish 2nd @ ASU

From the start it seemed to be a three horse race between the Wildcats, Trojans, and Bruins...but a final round charge by the Huskies upstaged that three team dual. The Huskies fired a 16 under par final round that gave them the 2 shot victory when it was all said and done.

We started the day just like we wanted, coming out hot and jumping up into the hunt after 4 holes...the middle stretch of this course is where you have to make your run...8-14 is the stretch that will be the difference come Pac-10's in three weeks..we didn't take advantage of these holes and it cost us in the end. 10 and 14 are par 5's you have to birdie and we didn't capitalize there.

The guys fought hard coming down the stretch but it just wasn't enough...and the last 3 holes are not where you can make many birdies. 16 is a typical Pete Dye par 3, 215 with agua all the way up the right side...pretty intimidating at that point in the round, not a hole you can get greedy on. 18 is another beast...475 cape hole with H20 all the way down the left. A par on these two is all you can ask for...no doubt the Pac-10 title will be decided here.

We have a lot of work to do this coming week to prepare for Stanford next week. Our putting needs to improve along with the wedges...we will get better. This is still a very young team...

Great week for Mario and Figgy...3 freshman and 2 soph's competing with the best in the country. This final 6 weeks of the season is going to be exciting.

Thanks for following...twitter is my new thing btw, check us out @ucla_bruin18. I apologize for typo's...posting this one from my rental car @6am instead of watching the range on a recruiting trip. Memo to all jr's, I am not very concerned with your golf swing...be tough, be strong, be a good putter.

Out.

Happy Easter! Bruins finish 2nd @ ASU