Trinity Forest Invitational
October 5-7, 2025 | ALL DAY
Trinity Forest Golf Club |  Dallas, Texas
GAME NOTES   |    LAST YEARS STATS
LIVE STATS 
 
SMU men's golf plays hosts to the Trinity Forest Invitational for its third tournament of the 2025-26 season.
 
FIELD: SMU, Baylor, Houston, UNT, Sam Houston, Abilene Christian, Rice, USC, UTSA, Furman, Louisiana, Cal Poly, South Alabama, East Tennessee State, UTRGV

 

Format: 18 holes each day (Sunday, October 5 – Tuesday, October 7)
 
Schedule: 9 a.m. start on Sunday and Monday, 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday
 
Course Information: Trinity Forest Golf Club (Dallas, Texas), par 72, 7,617 yards​
 
Scoreboard Live (Clippd): https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/239449/scoring/participants


LINEUP
Will Sides
Zachary Kingsland
Areen Aggarwal
Christian Clark   
Gabe Post
 
SMU B LINEUP
Matthew Foster
Ben Steinmann
Mason Lewis
Zhengqian Li
Andrew Petruzzelli
 
 
WINDON MEMORIAL
SMU placed eighth at the Windon Memorial Tournament. The team had a best round of 279 in the middle round. SMU finished three strokes back of a spot in the top four. Christian Clark led the way with his best collegiate finish of eighth place. Will Sides and Areen Aggarwal finished in 21^st.
 
SIDES AND CLARK
Will Sides and Christian Clark have each played all six rounds this season at par or better. They both have three rounds in the 60s and a top 10 finish.

PGA TOUR UNIVERSITY
Two Mustangs are ranked in the top 15 of the PGA Tour University rankings. Will Sides jumped up to No. 9 in the rankings from No. 15 after winning the Stephens Cup and placing 21^st at the Windon Memorial. Zachary Kingsland is ranked No. 15. SMU, Ole Miss and Texas are the only programs with multiple top 15 players. This is the second year in a row that a Mustang has been ranked in the PGA Tour University with Enrique Dimayuga earning the honor last season.
 
SIDES, KINGSLAND & HUMPHRIES CAREER SCORING
Sides and Kingsland rank in the top five at SMU for career scoring. With near identical career scoring marks, Will Sides (71.47) ranks fourth and Zachary Kingsland ranks fifth (71.50). J. Holland Humphries ranks in eighth with a 72.52 mark.
 
Individual Career Scoring average (Since 1993-94)
1.             Noah Goodwin, 2017-2022                                                                                 71.04
2.             Bryson Dechambeau, 2013-16                                                                          71.15
3.             Mac Meissner, 2017-21                                                                                      71.41
4.             Will Sides, 2022-                                                                                                71.47
5.             Zachary Kingsland, 2022-                                                                                71.50
6              Nathan Petronzio, 2021-23                                                                                 72.08
7.             Kelly Kraft, 2008-11                                                                                             72.34
8.             J. Holland Humphries, 2022-                                                                           72.52
9.             Will Dodson, 2003-06                                                                                          72.75
10.           Colt Knost, 2004-07                                                                                            72.80
 
 
 
WILL SIDES WINS THE STEPHEN CUP
Will Sides repeated Stephens Cup champion, the first Mustang since at least 1980 to ever repeat as a tournament champion in back-to-back seasons. He shot rounds of 68, 66 and 69, all below the par 70 of the course. It was the Mustangs fourth individual title dating back to last season. As a team, the Mustangs finished in sixth.

LAST SEASON
In 2024-25, the Mustang won two tournament titles and captured three individual titles. At the hometown Trinity Forest Invitational, Zachary Kingsland won the title. Will Sides followed that up at the Stephens Cup, taking home top honors. In the Spring, Kingsland won another title at the Hal Williams leading the Mustangs to team victory. The team went back-to-back with a title at the Vaqueros Intercollegiate. SMU advanced to the match play portion of the tournament at its very first ACC Championship. The Mustangs advanced to the NCAA Auburn Regional.


THIS SUMMER
-Will Sides and Zachary Kingsland both earned bids to the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship. Sides made the match play round of 64 at the tournament. Four Mustangs have won US Amateur titles in the last 30 years.
-Will Sides posted top 10 finishes at both The Western Amateur Championship and the North & South Amateur. He finished in ninth at both of the prestigious tournaments. He placed in 12^th at the Southern Amateur Championship.
-Kingsland's best finish of the summer came with a 19^th place showing at the Northeast Amateur.
-Areen Aggarwal posted a 46^th place showing at the North & South Amateur over the summer.
-Christian Clark posted a third-place finish at the WLGC 4^th of July Tournament and an 18^th place finish at the Texas Amateur.