Sunday, April 27
La Quinta Country Club
Long Beach State University
vs
Big West Championship (First Round)
Men’s Golf Enters Big West Championship As Top Seed
4/26/2025 9:32:00 AM | Men's Golf
The two-time defending champs look to repeat as champions from La Quinta Country Club starting Sunday.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Ranked in the top 25 for the first time in program history, No. 22 Long Beach State will look to make a stamp on a tremendous season, beginning their postseason run with an opportunity to win a three-peat at the Big West Championship.
Starting on Sunday, April 27, the tournament will have a new look with three new teams joining the action. UC San Diego is eligible to compete for the first time, while two new affiliate members join the field in Sacramento State and Idaho. A previous member of the conference Idaho Men's Golf was the 2000 co-champion and returns to the Big West Championship in 2025.
Long Beach State will play the opening round paired with second seed Cal Poly and third seed UC Irvine, while the remaining teams in seed order are UC San Diego, Sacramento State, Cal State Fullerton, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Idaho, Hawai'i, UC Santa Barbara and CSUN.
Charlie Forster will lead off the Long Beach State lineup. Ranked No. 30 in the individual rankings, Forster has two tournament wins this season at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, in addition to two more Top 5 finishes and seven total Top 20 finishes this season. The senior leads the Beach with a 70.1 stroke average and is 34 strokes under par across the team's nine events so far this year.
Clay Seeber missed the last two events while competing in Q School in South Africa, but led the team in his last action a Top 5 finish at the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate where the senior finished with a 214, 2-under par from Tucson as the Beach were the runners-up to the hosts, Arizona. That was his best finish on the year, but has 15 rounds of par or better this season and has seven Top 5 finishes in his Long Beach State career.
Junior Alejandro de Castro Piera has had an outstanding season for Long Beach State. Also ranked in the Top 100 at No. 63, de Castro has a pair of second place finishes this year, coming in only behind Forster at both the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic. Also under par for the season, 25 strokes to the better, de Castro has a 70.4 stroke average and has finished in the Top 20 in seven of the team's nine tournaments so far in 2025.
Jack Cantlay has been one of the staples of the lineup through the last three seasons and returns to the Big West Championship. The junior had a season-high finish of fourth place at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate hosted by Hawai'i, and has had 13 rounds of par or under throughout the season so far. Finally sophomore Krishnav Chopraa rounds out the lineup for the Beach. Chopraa has a 72.8 stroke average this season, and boasts a low round of 67 on the year, one of six rounds in the 60s for the sophomore.
Live scoring throughout the tournament can be found through SCOREBOARD at https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/234272/scoring/participants.
Starting on Sunday, April 27, the tournament will have a new look with three new teams joining the action. UC San Diego is eligible to compete for the first time, while two new affiliate members join the field in Sacramento State and Idaho. A previous member of the conference Idaho Men's Golf was the 2000 co-champion and returns to the Big West Championship in 2025.
Long Beach State will play the opening round paired with second seed Cal Poly and third seed UC Irvine, while the remaining teams in seed order are UC San Diego, Sacramento State, Cal State Fullerton, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Idaho, Hawai'i, UC Santa Barbara and CSUN.
Charlie Forster will lead off the Long Beach State lineup. Ranked No. 30 in the individual rankings, Forster has two tournament wins this season at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, in addition to two more Top 5 finishes and seven total Top 20 finishes this season. The senior leads the Beach with a 70.1 stroke average and is 34 strokes under par across the team's nine events so far this year.
Clay Seeber missed the last two events while competing in Q School in South Africa, but led the team in his last action a Top 5 finish at the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate where the senior finished with a 214, 2-under par from Tucson as the Beach were the runners-up to the hosts, Arizona. That was his best finish on the year, but has 15 rounds of par or better this season and has seven Top 5 finishes in his Long Beach State career.
Junior Alejandro de Castro Piera has had an outstanding season for Long Beach State. Also ranked in the Top 100 at No. 63, de Castro has a pair of second place finishes this year, coming in only behind Forster at both the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic. Also under par for the season, 25 strokes to the better, de Castro has a 70.4 stroke average and has finished in the Top 20 in seven of the team's nine tournaments so far in 2025.
Jack Cantlay has been one of the staples of the lineup through the last three seasons and returns to the Big West Championship. The junior had a season-high finish of fourth place at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate hosted by Hawai'i, and has had 13 rounds of par or under throughout the season so far. Finally sophomore Krishnav Chopraa rounds out the lineup for the Beach. Chopraa has a 72.8 stroke average this season, and boasts a low round of 67 on the year, one of six rounds in the 60s for the sophomore.
Live scoring throughout the tournament can be found through SCOREBOARD at https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/234272/scoring/participants.
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