Men's Golf | 1/29/2026 10:02:00 AM

Utah Tech opens its 2026 spring schedule this upcoming Monday and Tuesday at the CSUN Bill Cullum Invitational. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played at the par-72, 7,008-yard Saticoy Club in Somis, Calif. 

In addition to the Trailblazers and the host Matadors, the 12-team tournament field will include fellows WAC members California Baptist and Southern Utah, along with British Columbia, Cal State Fullerton, Gonzaga, St. John's, Seattle U, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and Weber State.  
 
The five player lineup for Utah Tech will feature juniors Braden Anderson and Ashton McArthur, sophomore Frank Miao, and freshmen David Liechty and Joe Zhou. 

GOING "BIG" IN 2026: This past June 25, Utah Tech announced that it had accepted an invitation to join the Big Sky Conference beginning on July 1, 2026. 
        Starting in the 2026-27 season, 14 of the Trailblazers' 17 sports, including men's golf, will compete under the Big Sky Conference banner.

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, along with volunteer coach Marc Briggs.  

LAST TIME OUT: Utah Tech closed its 2025 fall season with a tenth-place team finish at the inaugural Hawai'i Pearl at Kalauoa Invitational, which was played at the Pearl at Kalauoa Golf Club in 'Aiea, O'ahu.
        The Trailblazers hovered around the top-five in the early going during their morning opening round, but were unable to maintain the pace and fell into 10^th-place after a combined 5-over 293. 
        Utah Tech would again make a charge to begin its afternoon loop, which was ultimately suspended due to darkness. The team went back out to finish the round and managed to move up one spot into a tie for ninth following a 7-over 295. The Blazers turned right back around and fired their low team round of the week, a 3-over 291, but it was not enough to make a final move up the team leaderboard.
        Senior Tanner Telford continued his solid start to the season as he paced Utah Tech with a t-10^thplace finish at even par 216. Telford opened with a 1-under 71, then after a 4-over 76 in round two, he bounced back with a team-best 3-under 69 with seven birdies on his final loop.
        Junior Jackson Rhees wound up in a seven-way tie for 34^th at plus-4 220. Rhees rebounded from an opening 4-over 76 with a 1-over 73 in round two, followed by a final round 71. 
        Meanwhile Liechty finished a shot back Rhees in 10-way logjam for 41^st at plus-5 221. Liechty got off to a good start with an opening 71, but rounds of 2-over 74 and 76 dropped him down on the leaderboard.
        McArthur (75-72-78) closed the fall in a six-way tie for 66^th at plus-9 225, followed by Miao (76-77-75) in t-84^th at plus-12 228. In addition Zhou (78-78-78), playing as an individual, tied for 97^th at plus-18 234. 

TRAILBLAZERS AT A GLANCE: Through five fall events, Liechty is second on the team with a 72.40 scoring average with six par or better rounds and one top-10 finish.
        Meanwhile McArthur is third at 73.25 with five par or better rounds out of the 12 loops he has played, followed by Miao in fourth at 73.27 (six par or better rounds), and Zhou in seventh at 78.50 (six total rounds), while Anderson will be making his Trailblazer debut at the CSUN event.  

2026 SPRING SCHEDULE: Utah Tech will play in five regular season events this spring, three of which will be played in California. The Trailblazers will return to California in three weeks to play at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate in Palm Desert.
            The Blazers will tee it up at 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 the month to play at the Seattle U Redhawk Invitational (March 30-March 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, and final, Western Athletic Conference Championships will be played on April 27-29, at The Clubs of Stonebridge Ranch in McKinney, Texas.