BERKELEY – The California men's golf team will begin play at the 78th edition of the Western Intercollegiate on Monday at Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz. Six Golden Bears will compete in the three-day 54-hole tournament, which runs through Wednesday and will be televised each day on Golf Channel.

The Bears start round one between 12:24-12:48 p.m. PT on Monday and round two between 9:48-10:12 a.m. PT on Tuesday.
 
TOURNAMENT INFO

• Dates: April 14-16
• Format: 54 holes (18-18-18, Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); 6-count-5
• Location: Santa Cruz, California | Pasatiempo Golf Club
• Course: Par 70 | Yardage: 6,515
• Live Scoring: Scoreboard

 
GOLF CHANNEL BROADCAST

• Monday: Round 1 Live Coverage – 4-7 p.m. PT | Round 1 Replay Coverage – 9 p.m. PT
• Tuesday: Round 2 Live Coverage – 4-7 p.m. PT | Round 2 Replay Coverage – 8-11 p.m. PT
• Wednesday: Round 3 Live Coverage – 4-7 p.m. PT

 
OFF THE TEE
1. Wenliang Xie
2. Daniel Heo
3. Sihao Cong
4. Ziqin (Eric) Zhou
5. Kai Hirayama
6. Charlie Berridge
 
THE FIELD (14)
#18 San Diego State, #21 Arizona, #22 Pepperdine, #29 BYU, #34 UNLV, #36 Oregon, #42 Stanford, California, Chattanooga, UC Irvine, Hawaii, Washington, Nihon University (Japan), San Jose State
 
STEADY ROOKIE
Ziqin (Eric) Zhou earned his fifth top 25 finish of his freshman season with a tie for 21st at The Goodwin two weeks ago. Four of Zhou's five top 25 efforts have come this spring, including a tie for ninth at the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate in mid-March. The Cal rookie made a splash last Fall with a runner-up finish at the prestigious Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Gotemba, and then helped lead Team Asia-Pacific to a win over Team Europe at the Bonallack Trophy in early January with three points in four matches.
 
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AT PASATIEMPO
Cal's Daniel Heo and Charlie Berridge have both played in the Western Intercollegiate previously, giving the Bears a pair of experienced golfers on the course at Pasatiempo. Heo tied for 27th (215, +5) as a freshman in 2023 while Berridge took 51st (227, +17) and 86th (231, +21) in 2022 and 2024. The Bears finished third at the Western Intercollegiate each of the past two seasons, while alumnus Aaron Du tied the tournament's low 18-hole record with a 7-under-par 63 in the first round of the 2023 event.
 
ACC TOURNAMENT ON THE HORIZON
The Western Intercollegiate is Cal's final tournament before shifting focus to the 2025 ACC Championship, hosted at The Club At Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on April 24-28. The Bears – who will compete in their inaugural ACC event – will play three rounds of stroke play between April 24-26, before potentially advancing to match play on April 27-28.
 
MEANWHILE AT AUGUSTA NATIONAL
Four Golden Bear alumni – Byeong Hun An, Max Homa, Michael Kim and Collin Morikawa – are among 18 Western Intercollegiate alums competing in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club this week. All four Bears made the weekend cut and will play through Sunday's final round in Augusta, Georgia.
 
FALL IN REVIEW
The Bears competed in four stroke-play events during the Fall, earning three straight top-four finishes – fourth at The Tindall, fourth at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational and third at the Pacific Invitational – before ending the slate with an 11th-place effort at the Preserve Golf Club Collegiate. Four Bears finished 11th or better individually throughout the fall, including two top-six finishes by Heo, who was one of Cal's top performers in the four stroke-play events.
 
LEADING THE CHARGE
The Bears have laid the building blocks for a successful future in their first season under Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf Michael Wilson, who was hired to the position on July 22, 2024. Wilson, a 2007 alumnus and key member of Cal's 2004 NCAA Men's Golf Championship team, returned to Berkeley most recently following two successful seasons at the helm of Colorado State's program (2022-24), having led the Rams to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances and a 2023 NCAA Championship berth. He's in his eighth season as a Division I head coach.
 
NEW ERA TEED UP FOR CAL GOLF
A transformational gift in support of Cal Golf is setting a new course for the sport and providing a model for philanthropic engagement at a pivotal moment for Cal Athletics. The $23 million gift — the largest endowment gift in Cal Athletics history — provided by an anonymous donor and established campus friend, will fully endow the men's and women's teams and provide Golden Bear golfers with a world class training facility at the Stonebrae Country Club. Read more about the gift at inspire.berkeley.edu.
 
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