CSU’s Jay Pabin notches first individual college victory as Rams finish fall with 3 team wins and 2 individual titles
By Gary Baines – 10/29/2024
Senior Jay Pabin had played in just one of Colorado State’s first four tournaments of the season — and none since mid-September — but if there was any rust in his game, he didn’t show it this week.
The golfer from Lucas, Texas, shot three consecutive rounds of 3-under-par 69 to claim the individual title out of 72 players on Tuesday in CSU’s final tournament of the spring, The Preserve Golf Club Collegiate in Carmel, Calif.
It was Pabin’s first college victory as an individual and second overall for a Ram this season as Coloradan Matthew Wilkinson took home the title in last month’s Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational.
Pabin carded 14 birdies, three bogeys and a double bogeys over 54 holes. He prevailed by a stroke over UCLA’s Pablo Ereno and San Diego State’s Chanachon Chokprajakchat.
CSU, which has three team victories in five tournaments this season, placed third out of a field of 13 on Tuesday. The Rams ended up at 9 under par for three rounds, 14 strokes behind champion UCLA.
For all the scores from The Preserve, CLICK HERE.
After the mid-season break, CSU will return to action Feb. 17-19 at The Prestige in La Quinta, Calif.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com