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2025-2026 Men's Golf Roster

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James Whitworth

James Whitworth

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Carlsbad, Calif.
  • Highschool:
    Pacific Ridge School

Summary

Biography

2025-26 (Senior):
CSC Academic All-District
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll
  • Competed in all 10 tournaments
  • Finished third on the team with a 73.70 scoring average
  • Best finish was a tie for 10th place at the Pearl at Kalauao Invitational
  • Low round was 3-under 67 at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate
  • Best 54-hole score was 1-under 212 at the Ka‘anapali Classic by OUTRIGGER
  • Team-best 12 rounds of par or better, including three in the 60s
  • Tied for 20th at the Big West Championship, where he posted 218

 
2024-25 (Junior):
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Competed in all 10 tournaments
  • Finished with a 74.59 scoring average
  • Selected to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team
  • Recorded seven rounds of par or better including two in the 60s
  • Career low 54-hole score of 6-under 210 at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate, where he tied for 51st place
  • Low round of 7-under 64 in the opening round of the Alister MacKenzie Invitational, where he ended up finishing 2-under 211 and tie for 55th place
  • Best finish was a tie for 17th at the Pan Pacific Super League in Japan
  • Named academic all-Big West
  • Named to the Big West Commissioners Honor Roll

2023-24 (Sophomore):
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Competed in three tournaments
  • Finished with a 73.67 scoring average
  • Best finish was a tie for 69th at the Kapolei Invitational where he posted a 54-hole low of 2-under 214
  • Carded 5-over 218 at the Ka‘anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational
  • Posted three rounds under par
  • Low round was 2-under 70 at the Kapolei Invite
  • Named to Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll

2022-23 (Freshman):
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Competed in three tournaments
  • Finished with a 76.2 scoring average
  • Low 54-hole score of 222 and low round of 1-under 70 in the third round of the Ka‘anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational
  • Named to the Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll

Prep:
  • A 2022 graduate of Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, Calif.
  • Earned four varsity letters in golf
  • Competed in junior varsity basketball for one year
  • Helped team capture the 2021 Coastal League Championship and a pair of runner-up finishes in the CIF Division 3 Championship (2021 & ’22)
  • Three-time varsity golf captain
  • Finished in the Top 4 of the AJGA Open at Copper Valley
  • 2020 North County Junior Golf Player of the Year
  • Member of 2018 PGA Junior League National Championship team (Team California)
  • California Scholarship Federation member and AP Scholar Award recipient
  • Member of the Finance Club and Hand of Peace
 
Personal:
  • Born in Carlsbad, Calif.
  • Has one older sister
  • Parents are Paul Whitworth and Jane Song of Carlsbad, Calif.
 

2025-26
Place Tournament Score
T-57 Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational 71-75-73=219 (+3)
T-63 Ka‘anapali Classic by OUTRIGGER 70-71-71=212 (-1)
T-10 Pearl at Kalauao Invitational 70-73-71=214 (-2)
T-90 Amer Ari Invitational 69-75-74=218 (+2)
T-58 John A. Burns Intercollegiate 67-78-74=219 (+9)
T-98 Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate 74-77-79=230 (+14)
78 Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate 79-80-77=236 (+20)
T-52 Bridgestone Collegiate Invitational 72-78-71=221 (+5)
T-77 Western Intercollegiate 80-69-75=224 (+14)
T-20 Big West Championship 73-71-74=218 (+2)

2024-25
Place Tournament Score
T-17 Pan Pacific Super League Tournament 79-78-70=227 (+11)
T-55 Alister MacKenzie Invitational 64-72-75=211 (-2)
T-63 Kapolei Invitational 77-76-76=229 (+13)
T-118 Ka‘anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational 75-79-73=227 (+14)
T-51 Amer Ari Invitational 68-70-72=210 (-6)
T-74 John A. Burns Intercollegiate 74-70-77=221 (+11)
T-72 Lamkin Invitational 74-72-78=224 (+8)
T-69 Thunderbird Intercollegiate 80-77-82=239 (+23)
T-70 Western Intercollegiate 73-75-75=223 (+13)
DNF Big West Championship 74-78-N/A

2023-24
Place Tournament Score
- William H. Tucker Intercollegiate DNC
- Bill Cullum Invitational DNC
Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational 70-76-72=218 (+5)
Kapolei Invitational 70-73-71=214 (-2)
- Amer Ari Invitational DNC
John A. Burns Intercollegiate 81-75-75=231 (+15)
- Lamkin Invitational DNC
- Cowboy Classic DNC
- Western Intercollegiate DNC
- Big West Championship DNC

2022-23
Place Tournament Score
T-101 William H. Tucker Intercollegiate 79-76-81=236 (+20)
- Bill Collum Invitational DNC
T-100 Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational 77-75-70=222 (+9)
N/A Amer Ari Invitational CANCELLED (Wind)
119 John A. Burns Intercollegiate 79-74-75=228 (+12)
- Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate DNC
- Lamkin Invitational DNC
- UC San Diego Invitational DNC
- Western Intercollegiate DNC
- PING Cougar Classic DNC
- Big West Championship DNC


Career Statistics
Year TP Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Round Best Finish
2022-23 3 9 686 76.22 70 T-100
2023-24 3 9 663 73.67 70 T-69
2024-25 10 29 2,163 74.59 64 T-17
2025-26 10 30 2,211 73.70 67 T-10
TOTAL 26 77 5,723 74.32 64 T-10

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