Both men’s and women’s golf teams have been competing hard this Spring, as both teams have notched multiple tournaments on their belts to start the 2026 half of the golf season. The men’s teams have managed a pair of top ten finishes, while the women’s team has already competed in three different tournaments to start the year.
Starting with the men’s team, the Gorillas began the spring semester with the Rattler Invite on Feb. 16 in San Antonio, Texas. The Gorillas placed tenth out of the 16 team field, finishing with a plus 35 team score, ahead of MIAA rival Missouri Southern. Midwestern State out of Texas would take the win.
Junior Keaton Thissen is the top individual at +8 for the tournament to finish 27th. Sophomore Tyler Hardtarfer (+9) and sophomore Jack Randall tied for 36th, while senior Mason White finished +11 to be 47th and redshirt junior Bradin Stahl (+31) completed the two-day tournament in 85th.
Pitt State would then compete next in the Shadow Valley Invite at Rogers, Arkansas. The Gorillas would tie for eighth place with the Missouri Western Griffons at a plus 40 team score. Harding University would take the tournament title.
Leading the charge as an individual was White (+5) who finished in 15th. Thissen (+10) finished 27th, Hardtarfer (+15) came in 47th, as Randall and sophomore Cooper Forth (+17) tied for 54th to round out the competitors for Pitt State.
Moving to the women’s slate, they competed on Feb. 16 at the Southern Invite, down in Spring, Texas. The Gorillas would finish with a 15th overall placement, dead last in the competition field with a score of +109. Junior Kymbree Larance led the team at +19 over 54 holes, sophomore Kylee Hopper (+25) finished 61st, junior Genevieve Akers (+27) 66th, freshman Katherine Adkins (+32) 71st, junior Abby Ervin (+38) 74th and freshman Charlotte Kerbs (+52) came in at 78th.
The Gorillas then went to the Rattler Invitational the weekend after, finishing 15th in the seventeen-team field with a plus 113 team score. Dallas Baptist University would take home the top spot in the competition. Hopper led the Gorillas at +18 to finish 37th, Akers (+21) came in 50th, Larance (+30) finished 75th, Ervin (+44) 86th and Adkins (+51) 92nd.
Pitt State would most recently compete in the Diffee Ford Lincoln Invite in Edmond, Oklahoma, placing fourteenth out of seventeen teams with a score of plus 83, just eight points behind Missouri Southern. Southwest Oklahoma State took home the tournament title. Hopper (+17) was the leading individual with a 32nd place finish. Larance (+19) finished 44th, followed by Adkins (+22) in 53rd, Akers (+25) in 68th and Ervin (+32) in 84th.