MALIBU, Calif. — Playing its penultimate tournament of the fall season, the No. 20 Pepperdine men's golf team heads to Fort Worth, Texas for the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational presented by Charles Schwab — the top tournament in men's collegiate golf — on Monday.
EVENT INFO
The Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational presented by Charles Schwab will be hosted by TCU at the par-70 7,289-yard Colonial Country Club course. There will be 54 holes of stroke play with 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday. Tee times for the first round begin at 8 a.m. CT/6 a.m. PT. on both days.
THE FIELD
With 13 of the 15 teams ranked in the top 25 Bushnell/Golfweek Division I Coaches Poll, the field will be strong at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational presented by Charles Schwab. Along with Pepperdine, the field includes the hosting TCU Horned Frogs, No. 1 Auburn, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 5 Texas, No. 6 Vanderbilt, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 8 Virginia. No. 11 Alabama, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 16 Texas A&M, No. 18 Georgia Tech, No. 19 Texas Tech and RV Stanford.
PEPPERDINE LINEUP
The Waves will send just five players to Fort Worth, Texas. Pepperdine's lineup consists of sophomore Luke Bailey, senior Mahanth Chirravuri, senior Brady Siravo, junior Willy Walsh and junior Carson Kim.
TEE TIMES
Monday's tee times are as follows:
8:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 4 — Mahanth Chirravuri
8:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 5 — Brady Siravo
8:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 6 — Willy Walsh
8:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 7B — Carson Kim
8:00 a.m. CT/6:00 a.m. PT, hole 7A — Luke Bailey
LAST TIME OUT
Led by Mahanth Chirravuri and Willy Walsh, the Waves had two top-10 finishers at The Invitational at The Honors Course.
PEPPERDINE IN THE RANKINGS
Mahanth Chirravuri leads the Waves at No. 10, making Pepperdine one of five schools with multiple players in the rankings. Thanks to his showing at the Sahalee Players Championship, Brady Siravo broke into the PGA TOUR University Class of 2026 rankings at No. 22 earlier this month; he now sits at No. 24. Pepperdine is the only school outside the Power-4 ranks to have two players ranked in the top 25 of the PGA TOUR University polls.
MAHANTH CHIRRAVURI
Pepperdine senior Mahanth Chirravuri made a slew of preseason watch lists earlier this fall. Ranked No. 10 in the PGA TOUR University rankings, Chirravuri made the Haskins Award Watch List, Golfweek named him a Second-Team Preseason All-American, plus he was a Third-Team Golf Channel Preseason All-American. He was the lone player from a non-Power 4 institution on all three preseason award lists.
Last year, Chirravuri was a Golfweek and PING All-American after tying for ninth place at the NCAA Championships. He was the seventh Wave in program history to earn a top-10 finish at NCAAs. The 2025 West Coast Conference Individual Champion and Golfer of the Year tied Michael Putnam for the second-most below-par rounds by a Wave in a single season with 23, plus he tied Joe Highsmith and Andrew Putnam for sixth for the most top-10 finishes in a single season with seven.
ROSTER
The Waves bring back six players from the squad that placed 12th at the 2025 NCAA Championships. Mahanth Chirravuri, Brady Siravo and Joshua Koo are the seniors on the squad, while Willy Walsh and Georgia Tech transfer Carson Kim round out the upperclassmen. Luke Bailey and Byungho Lee — both of whom have postseason experience — return for their sophomore seasons, while true freshmen Oscar Bach and Luke Dariotis are joining the team this year.
A standout transfer from Georgia Tech, Kim finished 38th at the NCAA Championships and tied for 18th at the Auburn Regional this past spring. As a freshman, he competed in 12 of Georgia Tech's 13 events and earned match play wins at the NCAA Championship and the East Lake Cup for the Yellow Jackets.
2024-25
The Waves took 12th place at the 2025 NCAA Championships, which was the best finish of any school outside the Power-4 ranks. During the 2024-25 season, the Waves finished in the top-5 in seven of their 13 tournaments and won their 23rd West Coast Conference Championship. The squad finished T-5th at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, 5th at the NCAA Amherst Regional, 4th at the Sahalee Players Championships, 4th at the Southwestern Invitational, 3rd at the Western Intercollegiate, 2nd at the Tindall Invitational and 1st at the WCC Championships.
WAVES ON THE PGA TOUR
Four Pepperdine alumni are currently competing or have earned their PGA Tour cards this season. Sahith Theegala and Andrew Putnam have been playing for multiple years, while Joe Highsmith earned his tour card on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour, while William Mouw is the fourth Pepperdine alumnus with his Tour card.
BEARD
Former Pepperdine All-American Michael Beard is in his 14th season as the Waves' head coach. He earned the Dave Williams Award as the Division I National Coach of the Year in 2020 after leading the Waves to the #1 ranking before the pandemic cancelled the season, then led Pepperdine to the NCAA title in 2021. He became the first WCC men's golf coach ever to earn WCC Coach of the Year honors three consecutive years (beginning in 2016) and he extended that streak to six straight in 2022 (he and Gonzaga's Mark Few are the only WCC coaches to win six straight Coach of the Year awards). Beard competed for the Waves between 1999-2002 and was a GCAA All-American honorable mention selection in both 2000 and 2002. He was the medalist at the 2000 NCAA West Regional and the 2002 WCC Championships and was a four-time All-WCC first teamer. After playing professionally for several years, he served as an assistant coach at Pepperdine for one season and helped the Waves to make the 2011 NCAA Championships. Beard returned to Pepperdine in December 2012 after spending the previous season-and-a-half as an assistant at Arizona State.
UP NEXT
Pepperdine wraps up the fall campaign at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational, held from Oct. 24-26. All schedule updates and results can be found on the men's golf team's schedule page on pepperdinewaves.com.
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ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN'S GOLF
Pepperdine men's golf has ranked among the elite collegiate golf programs in the nation, having won the NCAA Championship in 1997 and 2021. The program has won 24 WCC championships while reaching 28 NCAA Regionals and 14 NCAA Championships. With 30 All-American selections, the Waves currently have four active members of the PGA TOUR in 2025.
