Sahalee Players Championship Starts Fall Season for Men’s Golf

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon men's golf program kicks off its 2024 fall season this weekend at the Sahalee Players Championship in Sammamish, Wash. The 54-hole tournament at Sahalee Country Club will consist of 36-holes of consecutive golf on Saturday (Sept. 7) with the final round being played on Saturday (Sept. 8). Live scoring will be provided by GolfStat.

THE FIELD
One of the most talented events of the fall season, the Ducks will be part of a 13-team field that features two other Big Ten programs and eight teams ranked in the top 25:

No. 14 Arizona, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 24 Duke, No. 10 Florida, No. 5 North Carolina, Northwestern, No. 20 Oklahoma State, OREGON, Pepperdine, TCU, No. 19 Texas A&M, UNLV, No. 18 Washington

THE LINEUP
A pair of Ducks will make their debut in the Ducks' lineup while three return from last season's NCAA Regional starting five:

Sahalee Players Championship
1) Greyson Leach – 2023 All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.
2) Daniel Bullen – Competing for the first time as a Duck since the 2022-23 season.
3) Jeffrey Kwak – Making his Oregon debut; spent his freshman season at Santa Clara.
4) Eric Doyle – Season-best T10 at the 2024 Pac-12 Championships.
5) Aiden Krafft – 2023 Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention.
Ind) Jay Gould-Healy – Season-best T23 at the 2023 Maui Jim Individual

Oregon will be grouped with Arizona and TCU for the first 36 holes of play while Jay Gould-Healy, competing as an individual, will be paired with North Carolina's Maxwell Ford and Duke's Daniel Choi.

TEE IT UP

Sahalee Country Club is a par 72, 7,007 yard course. The Ducks will play 36 holes on Saturday and a final round of 18 on Sunday.
Oregon opens the season just outside the top 25 in the national rankings, sitting at No. 26 in the Preseason Bushnell/Golfweek D1 Coaches Poll. Four Big Ten programs - Illinois (No. 9), Washington (No. 18), Ohio State (No. 22), and UCLA (No. 25) - are represented in the top 25, with USC and Northwestern also receiving votes.
Oregon returns three starters from last year's NCAA Regional squad in Greyson Leach, Aiden Krafft and Eric Doyle. Doyle carded his best finish of the season with a 10th-place result at the Pac-12 Championship while Leach earned a pair of top-10 finishes during his junior season. Krafft will look to make a jump up the leaderboards as a junior after being lineup staple in his first two season in Eugene.
Entering this season, Greyson Leach ranks seventh in program history with a 72.01 career scoring average, while Aiden Krafft sits just outside the top 10 with a 72.38 career mark. Norman Xiong holds the Oregon program record at 69.05.
At the Amer Ari Intercollegiate last season, Oregon tied the third-lowest tournament to par in program history at 33 under. Each of Oregon's five starters finished the tournament under par as the Ducks finished 14th in a field that featured nine programs ranked in the top 25.
Head coach Casey Martin brought in five new Ducks for the 2024-25 campaign - one transfer and four freshmen. Jeffrey Kwak comes to Eugene after one season at Santa Clara, where he shot an average of 71.73 in 30 rounds as a freshman. Tim Chang, Shams Jahangir-Arshad, Julian Monas and Ramil Saelim will also look to impress during their first collegiate seasons.