Maybe it has something to do with John Wooden’s inescapable aphorisms immortalized all over the walls of the Wooden Center and the winning culture that he brought as a scientific formula to Westwood.

UCLA men’s golf, a team that won one tournament all year, needed two birdies on the 18th green at the NCAA regionals to squeak into the championship tournament.

A men’s golf season that saw the team face unexpectedly adverse weather conditions will fittingly be concluded in Kansas, a state known for its wind and trailer-park-plowing tornadoes.

It wasn’t some cartoonish desert mirage, making them seem closer than they were. What the leaderboard reflected was accurate.
By the end of the 36-hole day one, the Bruins found themselves 24 strokes behind eventual winners Stanford.

UCLA men’s golf finished seventh at the Pac-12 Championship held at The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Ariz. this weekend.
Over the 72-hole weekend tournament in the desert, the UCLA Bruins shot a team score of 1,489 (+49), well short of tournament winners Stanford at 1,438 (-2).

In the desert climate of Arizona’s Sonoran, where on an average high in late April heat can be seen rising in waves from the dirt up to the needle tips of cacti, the lushly verdant golf course stands out.

Chambers Bay, a course superb enough to claim home to the PGA’s U.S. Open in 2015, featured a final day of Bruin low scores and UCLA men’s golf’s first tournament title of the season – adding sports significance to the business and real estate adage: “Location.

Although a game may be scheduled as an exhibition, whenever the opponents are wearing Trojan red and putting USC-emblazoned head-covers back over their drivers and into red-trimmed golf bags after a drive on a par-five – that game matters.

UCLA men’s golf surged up the leader board on Friday, the second day of competitive play at the Amer Ari Invitational – only to fall short of its repeat-champion aspirations in the final round on Saturday.

It’s the middle of midterms season, and instead of spending nights in a UCLA library, men’s golf will be juggling rounds of golf in Hawaii and nights studying in a hotel room.