Men's Golf | 11/4/2025 2:47:00 PM
Utah Tech wraps up the fall portion of its 2025-26 season schedule this Wednesday and Thursday at the inaugural Hawai'i Pearl at Kalauoa Invitational in 'Aiea, O'ahu. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played at the par-72, 6,955-yard Pearl at Kalauoa Golf Course.
In addition to the Trailblazers and host UH, the 18-team tournament field will feature fellow WAC member California Baptist, along with Air Force, Army, Augusta, Baylor, Belmont, Butler, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Michigan, Hawai'i Pacific, Nevada, SIU-Evansville, Tennessee-Martin, UC San Diego, West Virginia, and Wichita State
The five player lineup for Utah Tech will feature senior
Tanner Telford, juniors
Ashton McArthur and
Jackson Rhees, sophomore
Frank Miao, and freshman
David Liechty. In addition, freshman
Joe Zhouwill play as an individual.
HEAD COACH BRAD SUTTERFIELD: Brad Sutterfield (BYU, 1994) is in his 14th season as head coach of the Utah Tech men's golf program. Last season, Sutterfield led the Trailblazers to seven top-eight showings in 10 team events, highlighted by a runner-up finish at last season's Colorado State Ram Masters Invitational (9/17-18/24), and a seventh place showing at the 2025 WAC Championships.
In the 2018-19 campaign, Coach Sutterfield and the Trailblazers enjoyed arguably their most successful season in the program's four-year era, posting six top-five team finishes and 11 total top-10 showings in 12 total team events, highlighted by a wire-to-wire victory at the 2019 NCAA Division II Men's Golf South Central/West Regional Championships. Utah Tech also placed ninth-overall at the 2019 NCAA National Championships and recorded a runner-up finish in its debut at the RMAC Championships.
In 2018, Sutterfield led Utah Tech to its third Pacific West Conference team title in four seasons, which earned him his second conference Coach of the Year award. The Trailblazers collected four tournament wins overall that season, along with seven-straight top-three team finishes and nine total top-10s in nine events overall.
Under his direction, the program finished in the top-three overall in the PacWest in six seasons overall, including consecutive PacWest team titles in 2015 and 2016, and a runner-up finish in 2014, for which Sutterfield was named conference Coach of the Year.
Prior to his arrival at Utah Tech, Sutterfield, who played collegiately at BYU, played professional golf for 15 years as a member of the PGA Tour, European Tour, the Web.com Tour, Canadian Tour, Asian Tour and European Challenge Tour.
Coach Sutterfield is joined on his staff by former Utah Tech standout player
Spencer Wallace, who is in second season as an assistant coach.
TRAILBLAZERS AT A GLANCE: On the strength of pair of top-10s and his first collegiate top-5 at the season-opening Colorado State Ram Masters (9/11-12), Telford leads the team with a 70.92 scoring average with a team-best eight par or better rounds through four fall events.
Meanwhile Liechty is second at 72.08 with five par or better rounds out of the 12 loops he has played with one top-10 showing, followed by Miao in third at 72.58 (six par or better rounds), McArthur in fourth at 72.67 (four par of better rounds), and Rhees is fifth at 73.33 (five par or better rounds).
NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech will open its 2026 spring schedule at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. The three-day, 54-hole event will be played on Feb. 23-25, at The Classic Club in Palm Desert, Calif.
