University of California Athletics

May 28, 2013

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MILTON, Ga. - Five Cal players - Brandon Hagy, Max Homa, Michael Kim, Joël Stalter and Michael Weaver - were named to the Division I PING All-West Region team announced Tuesday at the NCAA Championship by the Golf Coaches Association of America. The five Golden Bears were among 28 players named in the West Region and 155 selected from among six regions nationally.

Each of the five players have been instrumental in Cal setting the modern-era NCAA single-season win record in 2012-13 with 11 victories in its first 13 tournaments, bettering the previous record of 10 wins recorded by the 1985-86 Oklahoma State team. All five are also currently in the lineup at the NCAA Championship where Cal is competing for a school-record fourth straight season and in fifth place after the first day of stroke-play Tuesday at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course. All five have been individual medalists in 2012-13 and each currently has a season stroke average under 71.0.

Hagy is a second-team All-Pac-12 member who has a 70.87 stroke average in 2012-13 over 38 rounds of action. He was a winner at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational among his five top-five and six top-10 showings. Hagy also fired a first-round four-under par 66 Tuesday at the NCAA Championship and is in third place after the first 18 holes.

Homa is a first-team All-Pac-12 choice who has highlighted his 2012-13 season to date with the first outright victory of his career at the Pac-12 Championship among five top-five and seven top-10 showings. He has a 70.80 stroke average and is one of two players along with Kim to have played in all 41 rounds in 2012-13. He was the nation's No. 1 ranked player after tying for second in his first two tournaments of the season and has been named Pac-12 Player of the Month for the second and third times in his career.

Kim is the nation's top-ranked player according to both Golfweek and Golfstat and a National Player of the Year candidate. He is the top player listed on the watch list for the Haskins Award given to the nation's best collegiate golfer and was also one of three national finalists for The Ben Hogan Award honoring the nation's top collegiate golfer for his amateur play. The first-team All-Pac-12 choice has been an individual medalist a school-record four times in 2012-13 among his seven top-five and 10 top-10 finishes, with his lowest showing tied for 11th. Kim has a team-best 70.15 stroke average that is second nationally and is one of two players along with Homa to have played in all 41 of the team's rounds. He was also named the Pac-12 Player of the Month twice.

Stalter is a second-team All-Pac-12 choice who has been an individual medalist twice in 2012-13 among his four top-five and six top-10 showings. He has a 70.63 stroke average over his 35 rounds that is second on the team to Kim. Stalter was named Pac-12 Player of the Month for February of 2013 after sharing individual medalist honors with Kim at the team's first tournament of the 2013 spring season at the Arizona Intercollegiate and then winning the John A. Burns Intercollegiate outright. He was also the nation's top-ranked player after those two events before being replaced by Kim after he won two straight events in early March.

Weaver is a first-team All-Pac-12 selection who became the first current Cal golfer in school history to play in the Masters in 2013, where he did not make the cut but was tied for second among the six amateurs in the field. Weaver did win his first collegiate event at the NCAA Pullman Regional and finished in the top five in four of his most recent five tournaments heading into the NCAA Championship. He has a total of five top-five finishes and has been in the top 10 on seven occasions in 2012-13, with a 70.97 stroke average over 35 rounds.