The Cal Poly men’s golf team will begin its quest to end a two-decade title drought at the Big West Championship, starting Sunday morning, May 3. The three-round event runs from May 3 to May 5 at La Quinta Country Club.
The championship consists of 54 holes played over three days on the par-72, 7,056-yard course. The first round is scheduled for Sunday, followed by another round on Monday and concluding with the final round on Tuesday.
Cal Poly has not won the Big West Championship since its only team victory in 2006. In recent years, the Mustangs finished third in both the 2023 and 2024 championships. Baron Szeto shared the individual title in 2023.
Long Beach State enters this year’s tournament as the No. 28 ranked team and is seeking its fourth consecutive championship after winning four of the last five events.
Sophomore Nolan Kuszyk leads Cal Poly this season with an average of 72.4 strokes per round and is the only Mustang to have competed in all thirty rounds this year. Kuszyk also has three top-10 finishes, five top-20 placements, eleven rounds under par—including four rounds in the sixties—and leads his teammates heading into this week’s competition.
Freshman Rafael Bobo-Lloret follows closely behind with an average of 72.6 strokes per round and was named Big West Golfer of the Month for February after sharing first place at CSUN’s Bill Cullum Invitational held Feb. 2–3. Graduate student Kyle Dougherty (74.1), freshman Zihao Wang (74.5), and junior Jack Jarvis (74.6) complete Cal Poly’s lineup for this year’s championship.
