FINAL SEASON STATS I PING ALL REGION TEAMSDivision I PING Al Region Teams Named https://t.co/8iEpDWpcnV @PingTour
— GCAA (@GolfCoachesAssn) May 26, 2018
Two Sun Devil sophomores have earned PING West All-Region honors, as both Alex del Rey and Chun An Yu posted solid second seasons as ASU finished tied for 13that the NCAA Championships.
Though the season came to a close yesterday at the #NCAAGolf Champs, @sundevilmgolf is a young, hungry team -- the only one in the 30-team field that didn't have a junior or senior in the lineup.
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) May 29, 2018
Anyone else already excited for next season?#BackThePac pic.twitter.com/cAis0Jok6R
Got one team title and hope this leads to more. Congrats @a_delrey99 on Individual title https://t.co/YLEZ9l94Kx thanks to @desert_forest pic.twitter.com/89LEFFkqbe
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) September 25, 2017
An All-Pac-12 first-team selection, del Rey posted four top-10 finishes and had a 70.89 stroke average in 12 tournaments and had 12 rounds in the 60s. He won the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in September with a 10-under 206 and finished fourth at the season-opening Gopher Invitational. He tied for ninth at the Amer Ari Invitational and the Bandon Dunes Championship. He led the team to its first win in the second tournament of the year at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in Carefree as he had a 7-under 65 to earn medalist honors at Desert Forest as team shot 7-under 857 (289-291-277) and won by a stroke over eventual ACC champion Georgia Tech. He posted two top-10 finishes in this freshman season at the NIT Invitational (tied for eighth) and at the NCAA Austin Regional (tied for fifth) as he posted a 72.14 stroke average in 2016-17.
ALEX del REY 2017-18 TOP-10 FINISHES (4)
Gopher Invitational (Sept. 10-11, 2017) 71-67-70=208/-5/4 (87)
Maui Jim Intercollegiate (Sept. 22-24, 2017) 73-68-65=206/-10/1 (78)
Amer Ari Invitational (Feb. 1-3, 2018) 71-68-68=207/-9/T-9 (114)
Bandon Dunes Championship (March 11-13, 2018) 66-72-71=209/-4/T-9 (83)
Earning All-Pac-12 second team, Chun An Yu had a 70.58 stroke average in 12 tournaments and posted 16 rounds in the 60s. He took home medalist honors shooting a 13-under 200 (including a 65 in round one which tied for the best round of the tournament) at the Bandon Dunes Invitational March 11-13, and also tied for 21stat the 156-player NCAA Championship. He posted other top-10 finishes at Tucson's National Invitational (tied for second), the ASU Thunderbird Invitational (tied for eighth) and the NCAA Raleigh Regional (tied for fifth). An Yu shot a 9-under 63 on Feb. 25 at Omni National in the first round of the National Invitational en route to the second-place finish (63-70-69=202/-14). In his freshman season he had two top-10 finishes as he won the NIT Invitational with a 17-under 199 and tied for second at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational with a 12-under 201.
CHUN AN YU 2017-18 TOP-10 FINISHES
National Invitational Tournament (Feb. 25-26, 2018) 63-70-69=202/-14/T-2 (92)
Bandon Dunes Championship (March 11-13, 2018) 65-68-67=200/-13/1 (83)
ASU Thunderbird Invitational (April 14-15, 2018) 66-73-69=208/-5/T-8 (85)
NCAA Raleigh Regional (May 14-16, 2018) 65-70-69=204/-9/T-5 (75)
The Sun Devils, one of just three teams to win a tournament in against NCAA Champion Oklahoma State, won the 2018 ASU Thunderbird Invitational April 14-15 at the ASU Karsten Golf Course, claiming the title for the second year in a row. The competition came down to the last hole of the tournament, as ASU bested UNLV by one stroke. ASU also defeated last year's national champion Oklahoma and No. 1-ranked and eventual NCAA champion Oklahoma State, snapping OSU's seven-tournament winning streak. ASU earned its first win of the spring and second of the season with a convincing victory at the Bandon Dunes Championship March 11-13 as it led each round and finished an impressive 13-strokes ahead of second place Clemson.