Men’s Golf Wins 2025 Tiger Intercollegiate
4/8/2025 6:19:00 PM | Men's Golf
University of Missouri men's golf won its first title of the 2024-25 season, finishing on top at its home tournament of the Tiger Intercollegiate.
In addition to the team championship, graduate student Mattias Varjun won his first collegiate individual crown, carding a score of four-under (70-70-66) to win the title by four strokes.
Overall, Mizzou placed first with a team score of even par, finishing eight strokes ahead of runner-up Saint Mary's. It marks MU's first team title since the 2023 Chicago Highlands when it finished tied for first with Wake Forest and its first outright title since winning the 2022 Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate.
"It was a great win all the way around," said Missouri head coach Glen Millican. "It was very rewarding to see the guys win as a team and Mattias as an individual. It felt like our team picked up a lot of momentum from the final round at Myrtle Beach. We played well there, took another step forward last week at Charleston, played really well and got into contention with nine to go. Then we took another step forward from that and obviously winning at home is great, but winning in a dominating fashion has got to make the guys feel really good about the progress they have made and the work they put in."
Trailing by a stroke to No. 26 UNLV after one round of play and by one to Nebraska when play was halted due to darkness midway through round two last night, the Tigers used a strong finish to the second round to take a two-stroke lead over Saint Mary's with a score of +5. Mizzou wasted no time getting off to a strong start in the third round and led by multiple strokes throughout with its five-under tally in the third round the lowest by any team during the tournament, leading to the eight-shot win over the Gaels.
Nebraska finished third at +14 with Kansas State (+21) rounding out the top four.
Individually, Varjun won his first collegiate title in his 42nd career tournament. After entering the final round in second place at even par, Varjun tallied his career-best round with a four-under 66 – recording one eagle and four birdies on the par-70 course to just two bogeys. Most notably, he eagled the par-four eighth to start a four-under stretch over a four-hole span, while two of his four birdies on the day came on the tournament's toughest two holes on the 10th and 15th.
Additionally, Varjun's tally of 206 over the three rounds is a new career-best tally, winning the tournament by four strokes over Cincinnati's Ryan Ford.
"Obviously winning today was huge and getting it done in front of the home crowd makes it extra special," Varjun said. We play and practice here every day but when you get a tournament here it has a different feeling. We only get a couple of rounds to perform and show and the fact that we were able to do it speaks volumes about our team.
"I think we have shown good signs already in the past few tournaments of what we're capable of and this is just more good stuff from the guys. We have worked hard this year and now we can see some good results and things go our way, so we just have to keep going about our business, keep working and see where we can go with it."
Overall, four Tigers placed in the top 10 during the winning effort. Freshman Trent Mierl finished third overall, matching his best collegiate finish. He carded a one-over 211 (71-68-72) for his third career top-10 finish.
Sophomore Veikka Viskari also carded two rounds under par to finish fifth overall – his second top-five finish of the season – at +2 (69-74-69). Freshman Bubba Chapman added the best tournament of his young career by placing eighth overall at +3 (70-73-70).
The Tigers return to action next Monday, competing in the Mossy Oak Collegiate, hosted by Mississippi State.
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