STANFORD, Calif. - Santa Clara men's golf kicked off the 2020-21 season on Monday, falling to Stanford, 8-5, in a match-play event.
The Cardinal defeated the Broncos, 5-4, in medal match play at the Stanford Golf Course with Matt McCarty, Oscar Zimmerman, Zack Kaneshiro and Johnny Ward claiming Santa Clara victories.
McCarty has the best score of the day, firing a 5-under 65 to best Karl Villups by seven strokes.
Stanford won three of the four fourball matchups. Alex Conley and Jack Avrit teamed up to down Stanford's Ashwin Arasu and David Leede 1 up.
| Santa Clara | Score | Stanford |
| Matt McCarty (65, -5) | SCU by 7 | Karl Vilips (72, +2) |
| Alejandro Gutierrez (81, +11) | Stan by 10 | Michael Thorbjornsen (71, +1) |
| Konrad Brauckmeyer (74, +4) | Stan by 5 | David Snyder (69, -1) |
| Oscar Zimmerman (76, +6) | SCU by 1 | Daulet Tuleubayev (77, +7) |
| Alex Conley (76, +6) | Stan by 4 | Nate Menon (72, +2) |
| Zack Kaneshiro (73, +3) | SCU by 2 | Ethan Ng (75, +5) |
| Berk Harvey (80, +10) | Stan by 7 | David Leede (73, +3) |
| Johnny Ward (72, +2) | SCU by 5 | Barclay Brown (77, +7) |
| Jack Avrit (75, +5) | Stan by 2 | Ashwin Arasu (73, +3) |
| Santa Clara | Score | Stanford |
| McCarty/Ward | Stan 4 and 3 | Snyder/Thorbjornsen |
| Kaneshiro/Brauckmeyer | Stan 6 and 5 | Vilips/Menon |
| Conley/Avrit | SCU 1 up | Arasu/Leede |
| Harvey/Zimmerman | Stan 3 and 2 | Ng/Brown |
Note: This is a "Medal Match" round. Each match is scored by the cumulative number of strokes won by rather than the number of holes won. Up 3 means that the player is up by 3 strokes, not 3 holes. The player up by the most strokes after 18 holes wins the match.
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