Cal continues its 2017-18 season with the second of five regular-season events on its 2018 spring slate and seventh tournament of the entire campaign at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate this Friday-Sunday, February 16-18. The three-day 54-hole tournament will be held at the par-72, 7,322-yard Classic Club in Palm Desert, Calif. Teams are scheduled to play 18 holes each day starting from the first and 10th tees beginning at 7 am PT.

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1. KK Limbhasut
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Sebastian Crampton
4. Ben Doyle
5. Jamie Cheatham
^Finigan Tilly
^Playing as an individual

Friday: Sunny, 77/50, 0% precip, NW 7 mph, 13%
Saturday: Sunny, 79/50, 0% precip, E 5 mph, 10%
Sunday: Sunny, 77/51, 0% precip, WSW 9 mph, 21%
*According to weather.com

Cal is playing in the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate for the first time in school history.

The 2018 Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate field is highlighted by a trio of top-25 teams in No. 12 Texas Tech, No. 15 Cal and No. 20 UCLA. The 23-team field and their rankings are below.
 
(Golfstat, Golfweek/Sagarin, *Bushnell/Golfweek/Coaches)
Boise State (83, 75), Cal (15, 15, 15*), Cal State Fullerton (81, 112), Colorado (65, 55), Denver (95, 121), Idaho (232, 246), Kansas (36, 41), Little Rock (125, 117), LMU (121, 99), Nebraska (161, 168), Old Dominion (172, 163, South Dakota State (207, 210), Southern Illinois (110, 104), Southern Utah (181, 175), Stephen F. Austin (149, 147), TCU (40, 35), Tennessee (28, 25), UT Arlington (133, 129), Texas Tech (12, 12, 13*), UC Riverside (178), UCLA (21, 21, 20*), Wichita State (214, 221), Wyoming (75, 63) … *Top 25 only

Cal placed seventh in its most recent event at the Arizona Intercollegiate that opened the Golden Bears' spring season January 29-30. KK Limbhasut and Collin Morikawa both had top-20 finishes, placing tied for 11th and tied for 19th, respectively.

Cal's 2017-18 campaign has been highlighted by back-to-back wins at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational and Tavistock Collegiate Invitational in the team's third and fourth of five events in the fall of 2017 and six on the season. Cal's victories were its first in approximately two years since winning the also winning the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in the fall of 2015, while the back-to-back were the first for Cal since capturing the John A. Burns Intercollegiate and National Invitational Tournament in consecutive events in the spring of 2015. Cal was also third at the Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational, ninth at the Carpet Capital Collegiate and tied for ninth at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational in the fall of 2017 prior to its seventh-place showing at the Arizona Intercollegiate to open the 2018 spring season.

Collin Morikawa is a candidate for National Player of the Year and on the watch list for some of the top honors in collegiate golf including the Haskins Award and The Ben Hogan Award with the latter honoring the player in amateur and collegiate golf. Morikawa has Cal's lowest stroke average at 69.87, which is just under his own school record 69.94 he set in 2016-17. Morikawa has three top-10 collegiate showings in 2017-18 highlighted by his second-place finish that led Cal to a team victory at the prestigious Tavistock Collegiate Invitational. He has been in the 60's during eight of his 15 rounds and at par or better on 13 occasions. Morikawa is Cal's top-ranked golfer heading at No. 8 according to Golfstat while Golfweek/Sagarin has him at No. 15.

Collin Morikawa has established himself as one of the elite golfers in Cal history since his arrival in the fall of 2015. Now in his third collegiate season as a 2017-18 junior, Morikawa has 18 top-10 and 27 top-20 finishes in his first 30 collegiate events while he has a 70.53 career stroke average. Morikawa earned his first career victory at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational in March of 2017 after making his first playoff in his previous event at the Southern Highlands Collegiate earlier in the month. He finished the 2016-17 campaign ranked as high as the nation's No. 4 collegiate golfer according to Golfstat and was a Division I PING First-Team All-American, as well as being a semifinalist for both the Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year Award and The Ben Hogan Award leading the way among a host of honors. As a collegiate rookie in 2015-16, Morikawa became Cal's first player to earn a spot on the GCAA's Freshman All-American team and was also a third-team GCAA All-American and the Pac-12's Freshman of the Year among his many honors.

Collin Morikawa has been the AmateurGolf.com National Player each of the last two years in 2016 and 2017. His many amateur highlights include helping lead Team USA to victories at both the Arnold Palmer Cup and Walker Cup in 2017, becoming part of the first trio to ever each go 4-0 in their individual events in the latter. He has also won individual titles at major amateur events each of the last three years at the Trans-Mississippi Championship (2015), Sunnehanna Amateur (2016) and Northeast Amateur (2017). In addition, he has reached the Final 16 at each of the last two U.S. Amateurs and at the 2017 Arnold Palmer Cup earned Team USA's exemption into the PGA TOUR's 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard in March.

KK Limbhasut won the third and fourth events of his collegiate career during the 2017 fall campaign with victories at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational and Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic Invitational. The win at the MacKenzie helped Limbhasut earn Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month for October of 2017 for the first time in his collegiate career. He posted both the lowest 54-hole total of his career with a 15-under par 198 and top two rounds of his career in the victory with a seven-under par opening-round 64 followed by a six-under par 65. In addition to his two individual wins, Limbhasut has three other top-20 finishes and has shot in the 60's in all six rounds of his two victories while his 70.78 stroke average is second on the team. He has had Cal's top score a team-high three times in 2017-18.

Jamie Cheatham, Sebastian Crampton and KK Limbhasut have returned to the active roster in 2017-18 after redshirting the 2016-17 season to work on their golf games and focus on their academic schedule. Limbhasut and Crampton have both made a significant impact by playing in each of Cal's first six events of the 2017-18 season. Limbhasut has two wins and five top-20 finishes as previously noted. Crampton's season has been highlighted by a second-place finish at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational while he was tied for 15th at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational. Along with Limbhasut, he also had the best 54-hole score of their collegiate career at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational with a 14-under par 19. Cheatham played in only the first four rounds before missing the remainder of the fall but returned to the lineup in the top spot at the Arizona Intercollegiate to start the spring slate and is in the No. 5 spot for the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate.

KK Limbhasut and Sebastian Crampton will both be playing in their 100th career round at Cal in the first round of the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate.

Ben Doyle, Kaiwen Liu and Finigan Tilly have been the other three players to see action in the Cal lineup in 2017-18. Liu was in the lineup for each of Cal's five events in the fall of 2017 including an impressive collegiate debut with a tied for ninth-place finish at the Carpet Capital Collegiate to lead all Cal players but has not been in the lineup for the first two events of the spring. Doyle was in the lineup for each of the team's final three events in the fall and his appearance at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate will be his fifth straight in the lineup. Tilly was in the lineup at the Carpet Capital Collegiate to open the season and will be playing as an individual for the third time this season at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. William Aldred, Ryan Helgans, Clayton Madey and Robin Wang have also played as individuals.

Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf Walter Chun and assistant coach Eric Mina are in their second season as the team's coaches in 2017-18. Chun is in his 21st season associated with the Cal men's golf program previously serving as associate head coach (2009-16), assistant coach (2004-09) and administrative assistant (2002-04) after his playing career for the Golden Bears (1997-2002). Mina was also a player at Cal (2006-11) before spending four years as a professional golfer (2011-14). He is in his sixth season overall with the program.

After playing at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate (Feb. 16-18), Cal will continue its 2017-18 campaign at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate (Mar. 4-6) before taking just over three weeks off for spring break. Cal will return to play at The Goodwin (Mar. 29-31) and the Western Intercollegiate (Apr. 7-8) before beginning the postseason with the Pac-12 Championships (Apr. 23-25). The 81-team NCAA Regionals are scheduled for May 14-16 and the 30-team NCAA Championships from May 25-30.