Men's Golf | 9/10/2025 10:36:00 AM

Utah Tech opens the 2025-26 fall season this Thursday and Friday with an appearance at the Colorado State Ram Masters Invitational. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played at the par-70, 7,218-yard Fort Collins Country Club. 
 
In addition to Utah Tech and the host Rams, the 17-team tournament field will feature fellow WAC member Utah Valley, along with CSUN, Cal State Fullerton, Colorado, Denver, Illinois State, Long Beach State, Sacramento State, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Utah State, Weber State, Wichita State, and Wyoming.

HEAD COACH BRAD SUTTERFIELD: Brad Sutterfield (BYU, 1994) begins 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 begins his second season as an assistant coach.

2025-26 TRAILBLAZER PREVIEW: The Trailblazers return five players and two redshirts from last year's squad who combined for six top-10 individual finishes overall in 10 events last season, and a seventh-place overall showing at the 2024 WAC Championships. 
        Senior Tanner Telford is Utah Tech's top returner from last season, during which he posted a team-high three top-10s and led the team with a 72.67 stroke average. He carded 10 par-or-better rounds out of the 27 total loops he played in.
        Utah Tech also brought back a trio of talented juniors in Ashton McArthur, KJ Ofahengaue and Jackson Rhees. 
McArthur played in nine team events in his first season as a Trailblazer and finished fifth on the team with a 73.37 stroke average with a team-high 13 par-or-better rounds. McArthur saved his best for last at the 2025 WAC Championships, at which he fired rounds of 74-71-71 to finish solo third at even par 216.
        Ofahengaue played in eight team events and recorded a 75.04 scoring average. The junior posted his second collegiate top-10 individual finish with a t-10^th place result at the season-opening CSU Ram Masters, which was highlighted by a collegiate career-low 5-under 65 in the second round, and he placed 39^th at the 2025 WAC Championships (4/25-27)
        Rhees is the lone returnee who played in all 10 team events a season ago and wound up fourth in stroke average at 73.23 with 12 par-or-better rounds. Rhees fired four rounds in the 60s, including a collegiate career-low 4-under 67 at last fall's Pacific Invite, and notched his first collegiate top-10 with a t-eighth place showing at the Idaho Bandon Dunes event earlier this past March.
        The Trailblazers also welcomed back sophomore Frank Miao, and redshirts Luke Schone (R-Jr.) and William Tang (R-Fr.).
        Miao played in four of the 10 team events last year and wound up with a 73.17 stroke average with six par-of-better rounds in his 12 total loops overall. He made the most of his collegiate debut in the spring-opening Eastern Kentucky Mesquite Desert Classic (2/16-18/25), where he fired rounds of 72-71-71 en route to a t-13^th finish at minus-2 214.
        In addition, Utah Tech added a pair of talented freshmen in international standout Joe Junze from China, and David Liechty from Layton (UT) High School. 
        Liechty, who signed at Utah Tech in 2022, became the first Utah Tech player in program history to qualify for match play at the 2025 U.S Amateur, which was played last month at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, and advanced on to the Round of 32. 

UTAH TECH'S LINEUP AT CSU: Utah Tech will be represented by Telford, Liechty, Rhees, Schone and Miao. 

2025-26 EVENT SCHEDULE: Currently Utah Tech is slated to play in eight regular season team events, including four tournaments this fall. Following the CSU Ram Masters, the Trailblazers return to Colorado in two weeks to play in the Air Force Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational (Sept. 20-22).
        The Trailblazers will also tee it up next month at the Pacific/Visit Stockton Inv'l (Oct. 9-11), before closing the fall with a trip to the Islands for the Hawai'i Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational (Nov. 4-6). 
        Utah Tech will play in four regular season events this upcoming spring, beginning with a trip to California to play in the Wyoming Desert Classic (Feb. 23-25) at The Classic Club in Palm Springs.
        The Blazers will also return to two renowned courses in March, beginning with a trip to Oregon to play in the Idaho-hosted Bandon Dunes Championship (March 8-10).
        Utah Tech travels back to the Northwest later in that month to play at the Seattle U Redhawk Invitational (March 30-31) at Chambers Bay Golf Club, which was the site of the 2015 United States Open. 
        The Trailblazers then wrap up the regular season at the UC Santa Barbara Collegiate Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Course in Santa Barbara on April 6-7. The 2026 Western Athletic Conference Men's Golf Championships will be played April 27-29, at The Clubs of Stonebridge Ranch in McKinney, Texas. 
 
NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech will have several players take part in the individual portion of the Utah-hosted Wohali Invitational next Monday and Tuesday at Soldier Hollow Golf Course in Midway.