Tuesday, October 7
Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M.
All Day
University of Oregon
vs
The Notah Begay III Match Play
Photo by: Chris Bernacchi
Ducks Open Match Play in New Mexico
10/06/25 | Men's Golf
EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon men's golf team continues the fall slate on the national stage on Tuesday with the first day of competition at the Notah Begay III Match Play. The tournament will take place at the Twin Warriors Golf Course in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. Live scoring will be provided at events.nb3college.com.
Match play will be televised live on the Golf Channel, with coverage from 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. PT on Tuesday and 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday.
Teams will compete in a round robin match play format, with each team meeting once. A total of five points will be available in each match, and winners will be determined by total points won over three matches.
The Ducks will play their first round against New Mexico State beginning with a 6:30 a.m. PT shotgun start on Tuesday, followed by a match against New Mexico. The third and final round will be played against UNLV on Wednesday.
UO is coming off an 10th-place finish at The Tindall in September where Aiden Krafft, Jeffrey Kwak and Sebastian Desoisa all finished in the top-50. Krafft, Jay Gould-Healy and Casper Nerpin have competed in each of Oregon's two tournaments this fall.
Freshman Oscar Lent took home a share of the Tindall Individual Tournament title, shooting a 9-under 207 in his collegiate debut. Hugh Adams is also set to make his second appearance of the season, after debuting at the Tindall.
THE FIELD
The two-day tournament field is made up of four schools including one ranked team and one team receiving votes:
No. 22 New Mexico, New Mexico State, Oregon and UNLV
ROUND 1 PAIRINGS vs. NEW MEXICO STATE
6:30 a.m. (Tee #14) – Oscar Lent (ORE) vs. Anthony Lara (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #15) – Hugh Adams (ORE) vs. Max Chan (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #16) – Aiden Krafft (ORE) vs. Javier Delgadillo (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #17) – Casper Nerpin (ORE) vs. Mateo Payan (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #18) – Jay Gould-Healy (ORE) vs. Ethan Close (NMS)
TEE IT UP
Match play will be televised live on the Golf Channel, with coverage from 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. PT on Tuesday and 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday.
Teams will compete in a round robin match play format, with each team meeting once. A total of five points will be available in each match, and winners will be determined by total points won over three matches.
The Ducks will play their first round against New Mexico State beginning with a 6:30 a.m. PT shotgun start on Tuesday, followed by a match against New Mexico. The third and final round will be played against UNLV on Wednesday.
UO is coming off an 10th-place finish at The Tindall in September where Aiden Krafft, Jeffrey Kwak and Sebastian Desoisa all finished in the top-50. Krafft, Jay Gould-Healy and Casper Nerpin have competed in each of Oregon's two tournaments this fall.
Freshman Oscar Lent took home a share of the Tindall Individual Tournament title, shooting a 9-under 207 in his collegiate debut. Hugh Adams is also set to make his second appearance of the season, after debuting at the Tindall.
THE FIELD
The two-day tournament field is made up of four schools including one ranked team and one team receiving votes:
No. 22 New Mexico, New Mexico State, Oregon and UNLV
ROUND 1 PAIRINGS vs. NEW MEXICO STATE
6:30 a.m. (Tee #14) – Oscar Lent (ORE) vs. Anthony Lara (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #15) – Hugh Adams (ORE) vs. Max Chan (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #16) – Aiden Krafft (ORE) vs. Javier Delgadillo (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #17) – Casper Nerpin (ORE) vs. Mateo Payan (NMS)
6:30 a.m. (Tee #18) – Jay Gould-Healy (ORE) vs. Ethan Close (NMS)
TEE IT UP
- Oregon makes its' first appearance at the Notah Begay III Match Play, marking a homecoming for New Mexico native Aiden Krafft.
- Freshman Oscar Lent is making his second appearance with the Ducks, after tying for first in the Tindall Individual Tournament in September 2025. Lent shot a 9-under 207 across three rounds in his collegiate debut.
- The Ducks finished fourth in their first Big Ten Championships last season with a 15-over 855. Greyson Leach matched his best result of the season, placing second individually with a 4-under 206. It marked the best finish at a championship meet by a Duck since Wyndham Clark medaled at the 2017 Pac-12 Championships.
- Oregon won back-to-back events for the first time since the 2022-23 season by finishing atop the leaderboards twice in the state of Oregon, taking home the team title at both the Bandon Dunes Championship and UO's own Duck Invitational. Oregon led wire-to-wire at Bandon Dunes as Greyson Leach (2nd, -4), Aiden Krafft (4th, -1) and Ramil Saelim (T6th, +5) all finished in the top 10 individually. Saelim led the charge at Eugene Country Club, tying for third with a 7-under 206.
- Aiden Krafft surpassed 300 career birdies at the Sahalee Players Championship to begin the 2025 fall season. Krafft lead all Ducks last season with a career-high 123 birdies.
- The Ducks' 284.67 scoring average in their 10 5-count-4 events in 2024-25 was the third-lowest in program history. Last season's tally only trails those of the 2023-24 (282.74) and 2009-10 (283.44) teams.
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