Men's Golf | 10/9/2026 7:13:00 PM

Utah Tech continues its 2026-27 fall season early next week at the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational in Stockton, Calif. The three-day, 54-hole event will be played Monday-through-Wednesday at the par-72, 7,278-yard The Reserve at Spanos Park Golf Club.  

In addition to the Trailblazers and the host Tigers, the 18-team tournament field will feature fellow Big Sky members Eastern Washington, Idaho and Southern Utah, along with UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Denver, Fresno State, Nevada, Sacramento State, Saint Mary's, San Francisco, Seattle U and Utah Valley.

The five player lineup for Utah Tech will feature seniors Braden Anderson and Nikko Taggart, junior Jack Yu, sophomore Joe Zhou, and freshman Chase Cesarek.

HEAD COACH BRAD SUTTERFIELD: Brad Sutterfield (BYU, 1994) is in his 15th season as head coach of the Utah Tech men's golf program. Last season, Sutterfield led the Trailblazers to six top-six showings in 10 team events, highlighted by a third place finish at last season's Colorado State Ram Masters Invitational (9/11-12/25), and a sixth place showing in their final appearance at the Western Athletic Conference 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.

GOING BIG IN 2026-27: Utah Tech men's golf has begun a new era this season as new members of the Big Sky Conference.
        Utah Tech was picked to finish third in the 2026-27 Big Sky preseason coaches poll, which was released on September 1.
        Idaho received five of a possible seven first place votes and 35 total points to be tabbed as the Big Sky preseason favorite, while Northern Colorado collected one first place nod to finish second in the poll with 26 points.
        Utah Tech also secured one first place vote and 25 points to finish third, followed by Weber State (23 pts) in fourth, Eastern Washington and affiliate member Francis Marion (14 pts) both wound up tied fifth, and Southern Utah (10 pts) was picked to finish seventh.

TRAILBLAZERS AT A GLANCE: Through two team events this fall, Yu leads the Trailblazers with a 71.66 through six rounds with two par or better rounds overall.
        Cesarek is fourth at 73.00 and leads the team with three par-or-better rounds, while Taggart is fifth at 74.16 with two par or better rounds.
        Meanwhile both Anderson and Zhou will make their 2026-27 season debuts at the Pacific event.

HEAD COACH BRAD SUTTERFIELD ON THIS WEEK'S TOURNEY: "The team is ready to get back to action after a couple weeks off. We have been working hard getting ready to go see what we can do at Pacific this upcoming week."

NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech will close out its 2026 fall slate "South of the Border" at the George Washington-hosted Monterrey Collegiate Classic. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played on Oct. 26-27, at the Club Campestre Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.