? NCAA Stanford Regionals Info – Cal did not qualify for NCAA Regional play as a team in 2017 but sophomore Collin Morikawa will play as an individual at the NCAA Stanford Regionals this Monday-Wednesday, May 15-17, 2017. The 54-hole tournament will be held at the par-70, 6727-yard Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif. The 13 teams and 10 individuals not from those teams in the field are scheduled to play 18 holes each of the event's three days. The first tee time from both the first and 10th holes is scheduled each of the first two rounds Monday and Tuesday at 8:30 am PT, while Wednesday's first team is scheduled for 8 am PT. Morikawa is scheduled to tee off from the first tee Monday at 11:04 am PT, with his Tuesday and Wednesday tee times both from the 10th hole to be determined by his place in the standings. The top five teams and top individual not from one of those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championships.
 
? NCAA Stanford Regionals Coverage
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? NCAA Stanford Regionals Weather Forecast
Day – Description, High/Low, Precip, Wind, Humidity
Monday – Mostly Sunny, 63/53, 0%, WNW 16 mph, 63%
Tuesday – AM Showers, 60/48, 30%, WNW 14 mph, 80%
Wednesday – Sunny, 68/49, 0%, NW 15 mph, 52%
 
? Morikawa Well-Honored For Terrific Season – Collin Morikawa has earned several honors to this point of the 2016-17 campaign with a complete list below …
 
? Arnold Palmer Cup U.S. Team Selection
? Cal's Most Improved Player
? Cal's Most Valuable Player
? First-Team All-Pac-12
? Haskins Award Watch List
? Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year Award Semifinalist
? The Ben Hogan Award Semifinalist
? Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month (March 2017)
? First Win Highlights Morikawa's 2016-17 Play – Collin Morikawa won his first collegiate tournament March 18-19 at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational after having reached a playoff for the first time ever in his previous event at the prestigious Southern Highlands Collegiate (March 6-8). The two showings are among five top-five and eight top-10 finishes in 10 stroke-play starts in 2016-17. Morikawa is fifth in the nation with a 69.93 season stroke average.
 
? Morikawa's 2015-16 True Freshman Campaign – Morikawa tied for 10th at the NCAA Championships, earned third-team All-American honors, was the first Cal player to earn Freshman All-American honors and was the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year to highlight his 2015-16 true freshman campaign.
 
? Morikawa's NCAA Regionals History – Morikawa (76-70-73 – 219, +3) finished in a tie for 26th in his lone career NCAA Regionals event as a freshman at the Tucson NCAA Regionals in May of 2016.
 
? Morikawa's Career Collegiate Numbers – Morikawa has eight top-five, 15 top-10 and 21 top-20 finishes in 24 career stroke-play starts during just under two full seasons at Cal. He has taken 5231 shots over 24 events and 74 rounds for a career 70.69 stroke average, shot a low single round of 64 in the opening round of the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in October of 2016 and is 32-under par over his career. He also had his lowest 54-hole total in the 2016 Alister MacKenzie Invitational (64-69-66 – 199, -14) while he played his only 72-hole collegiate event at the Pac-12 Championships (74-66-72-75 – 287, +3) in April of 2016.
 
? More Morikawa – Morikawa also has recent impressive performances as an amateur outside of his play for Cal. During the 2016 calendar year, Morikawa won the Sunnehanna Amateur and Silicon Valley Amateur, tied for second after reaching a playoff as an amateur at his first Web.com Tour event at the Air Capital Classic presented by Aetna, reached the round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur and made his PGA TOUR debut as an amateur at the Safeway Open. He also won the Trans-Miss Championship in 2015 and the Western Junior Championship in 2013.
 
? Morikawa's Rankings
1. Scratch Players World Amateur Ranking (5/13/17)
5. Golfstat (5/11/17)
9. World Amateur Golf Ranking (5/13/17)
10. Golfweek/Sagarin (5/6/17)
 
? First Cal NCAA Regionals Individual In A Dozen Years – Morikawa will be the first Cal player to play in an NCAA Regional as an individual since Jeff Hood in 1995 at the NCAA Western Regionals also at Stanford.
 
? Cal's NCAA Regional Streak Ends At Nine – Cal had qualified for the NCAA Regionals as a team for a school-record nine consecutive seasons before not being selected in 2017.
 
? Aldred's Two Holes-In-One At Western – William Aldred recorded holes-in-one during back-to-back rounds of the Western Intercollegiate on April 8 and 9. Aldred used a seven-iron to pick up his hole-in-one during Sunday's third round on the 177-yard par-three eighth after hitting a nine-iron for an ace in Saturday's second round on the 141-yard par-three No. 15. Former Cal head coach Steve Desimone said he had seen "two, maybe three" Cal players with a hole-in-one in 37 seasons at the helm. Aldred called his accomplishment "bizarre".
 
? Season Rewind – Cal posted its top two finishes of the 2016-17 season in its first two tournaments of the spring, tying for fifth at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate after opening the spring with a sixth-place showing at the Arizona Intercollegiate while the Golden Bears were also eighth at ASU Thunderbird Invitational and tied for eighth at the Pac-12 Championships. Cal also had finishes of either eighth (Gopher Invitational, Maui Jim Invitational) or tied for eighth (Alister MacKenzie Invitational) in each its first three events of the 2016 fall schedule. Cal also competed in stroke-play events at the Southern Highlands Collegiate (12th), Western Intercollegiate (13th), Cabo Collegiate (14th) and Tavistock Collegiate Invitational (15th), in addition to reaching the consolation finals of the Cypress Point Invitational.
 
? Cal's 2016-17 Team Awards – In addition to Morikawa being named both Cal's Most Valuable and Most Improved Player to highlight the team's 2016-17 team awards, the other honors were captured by Finigan Tilly (Newcomer of the Year), Walker Huddy (Ed Arnold Coaches Award) and William Aldred (Ben Furth Award).
 
? Chun In Charge – Walter Chun is in his first season as Cal's Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf after he was named to the position on Aug. 1, 2016, replacing former head coach Steve Desimone, who retired at the end of the 2015-16 campaign after 37 seasons at the helm. Chun is in his 20th 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).

? Three Key Players Out – Three of the four Cal players returning from the lineup at the 2016 NCAA Championships – Jamie Cheatham, Sebastian Crampton and KK Limbhasut – are redshirting and have not played in 2016-17. All are expected to return for the 2017-18 campaign.