UNLV officials announced Monday that the school’s new professional golf management center on campus will be named for men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight.
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The golf season was special for UNLV and junior John Oda. The men’s team reached the elite eight of the NCAA championships and won the West Lafayette Regional and Mountain West tournament. The Rebels finished the year ranked 12th in the country.
The UNLV men’s golf team comes off victories in the Mountain West and NCAA regional tournaments heading into the national championship. That tournament opens Friday in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
The local U.S. Open qualifier was Monday at SouthShore Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, a course that is spectacular and picturesque but perhaps better suited for bighorn sheep.
Last Thursday morning, UNLV men’s golf players and coaches gathered in the Las Vegas Country Club rotunda room to watch Golf Channel and find out where they would play in the NCAA regionals.
No. 17 UNLV will be the third seed in the NCAA men’s golf regional tournament in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Rebels will play in the regional May 15-17.
Charley Hoffman, who played on UNLV’s 1998 NCAA championship team, shot 7-under 65 on Thursday in one of the most impressive first rounds ever recorded at the Masters.
UNLV junior John Oda shot 4 under par and tied for sixth in the Southern Highlands Collegiate at Southern Highlands Golf Club. The Rebels finished tied for sixth.
UNLV finished sixth during the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at the Palos Verdes Golf Course in California last week. Mackenzie Raim won the individual competition.
UNLV golfer John Oda made a hole-in-one during the Sony Open’s qualifier round last Monday at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.