With two tournament victories and a pair of runner-up finishes this fall, the University of the Pacific men’s golf team is swinging to new heights.

The Tigers completed their historic 2024 fall season Wednesday by winning the Leadership and Golf Collegiate Championship in Seaside, California, a 14-team field. It came after they won The Goat tournament among 15 teams in Annapolis, Maryland Sept. 21-22.

Pacific’s last tournament title win was in 2014, and it’s the first time the program has won two tournaments in a season since 2013.

“The results from this fall are some of the best in program history, if not the best,” said 10th-year head coach John Cook. “I could not be prouder of these guys in their determination and effort to put Pacific golf back up on the map. The team is motivated and driven to do that. They play for each other. The team aspect of the sport has really resonated with these guys.”

Sophomore Carlos Astiazaran ’27 and junior Travis Robbie ’26 have claimed back-to-back individual titles for Pacific, with Astiazaran winning most recently in the Saint Mary’s-hosted tournament last week.

“It was definitely a special day,” Astiazaran said. “It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get my game to a good spot. It’s great to be able to win one.”

Robbie was crowned the individual champion at the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational two weeks ago where the junior college transfer became the first Tiger individual champion since 2018 when Casey Scott won at Grand Canyon.

“It’s really nice to have any kind of accolades like that,” Robbie said. “It’s all part of the process in trying to make it to the PGA tour. You always hope to go out here and win it. It’s great to know my name will be in the record books.”

Astiazaran and Robbie are the first pair of different individual champions to win during a single season in school history, even more impressively doing so in back-to-back weeks.

“Coach Andy Moren and I knew that these guys have had the potential to be great,” Cook said. “Carlos has put in the hard work for a year and a half now and finally got his win. Travis has stepped into the program and has brought his confidence up here. They all push each other to be best and the results are showing it.”

While golf is an individual sport when competing on the course, total team effort and complete buy-in by the team is what garners success.

“The culture we have as a team is we all want better,” Robbie said. “We really push each other. It’s a great recipe for us to play our best golf.”

“We couldn’t ask for better chemistry between the team,” Astiazaran added. “All 10 of us guys are like brothers. We know we can count on each other for golf or things outside of golf. That’s definitely helped us be so successful.”

With the fall portion of the 2024-25 season in the books, Pacific has its eyes set on the spring where the team will kick it off in a heavily competitive field at the Amer Ari Invitational in Waimea, Hawaii.

“Coming out of the gates in 2025 will be the best field in the country in Hawaii,” Cook said. “It will be a great opportunity to showcase what we are able to do there. We have some great courses we will be playing later. Our goal is to make us eligible for the postseason. These guys are dedicated for the mission ahead.”

“It’s not a far-fetched goal to make NCAA regionals or the national championships at this rate,” Astiazaran said. “I see no reason why we can’t be at those NCAA tournaments at the end of the spring.”