SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA men’s golf team will open the 2024-25 season by hosting, in conjunction with Valero Energy Corporation and Valero Texas Open, the Valero Texas Collegiate on Saturday-Monday, Sept. 21-23, at TPC San Antonio Oaks (par 72/7,100 yards). Admission is free.
The tournament will feature some of the top collegiate teams from across the country converging on the Alamo City with the individual winner earning an exemption to play in the 2025 Valero Texas Open, the PGA TOUR’s annual stop on the same course. The field includes the Roadrunners, Auburn, Clemson, East Tennessee State, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, North Florida, SMU, TCU, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Virginia.
UTSA will line up with Walker Franklin, Jack Wehman, David Martinez, Logan Vargas and Kaelen Dulany with Logan Zurn playing as an individual.
The field will play 18 holes each day with tee times starting at 8 a.m.
UTSA finished 10th at last year’s inaugural event behind David Harrison and Hunter Bott, who tied for 27th (+3) and 31st (+4), respectively. Vanderbilt captured the team title and Florida Gulf Coast’s Joe Sullivan claimed the individual crown on the second hole of a three-man, sudden-death playoff.
The Roadrunners are ready for their third season under head coach Matt Wernecke. UTSA welcomes back three veterans from the 2023-24 team that registered seven top-10 finishes, including four top fives.
Wehman returns for his senior season after ranking second on the squad with a 73.79 stroke average last season. The Austin native posted back-to-back top-10 finishes in the spring, tying for eighth at the Bentwater Invitational with a 217 (72-74-71) and sharing fifth at the weather-shortened Dorado Beach Collegiate with a 9-under-par 135 (67-68), which is tied for the second-best 36-hole score in program history.
Franklin is back for his second season as a Roadrunner after logging a 76.65 scoring average and three top-50 showings. The Colorado native’s top finish of 44th came at The Aggie Invitational.
Brayden Bare took a redshirt in 2024-25 after earning Conference USA All-Freshman Team accolades in 2022-23. The Waco native posted a 76.31 stroke average and a best finish of 12th at the John Bohmann Invitational that season.
UTSA welcomes in five newcomers in Kaelen Dulany, a sophomore transfer from Arkansas, Jacob King, a junior transfer from New Mexico who hails from nearby Boerne, David Martinez, a freshman from Houston Memorial High School, Logan Vargas, a junior transfer from Odessa College, and Logan Zurn, a junior transfer from Midland College.
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