THE JACKSON T. STEPHENS CUP
September 15-17, 2025 | ALL DAY
Shoreacres |  Lake Bluff, Ill.
GAME NOTES   |    LAST YEARS STATS
LIVE STATS  |   STREAMING
 
SMU men's golf opens its 2025 season with the Stephens Cup in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

THE STEPHENS CUP
SMU makes its return to the Stephens Cup for the third straight season. Last year, the team advanced to the match play portion of the tournament falling in the final to eventual national champion Oklahoma State. Will Sides won his match play grouping, 1 up. Will Sides won the individual title at the tournament in a playoff. The year before, 2023, with the tournament being hosted at Trinity Forest, the Mustangs won the third-place match against LSU.
 
GOLF CHANNEL
Three days of competition will be available to watch on the Golf Channel.

LINEUP
Will Sides
Zachary Kingsland
Areen Aggarwal
Christian Clark   
Gabe Post

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.

PGA TOUR UNIVERSITY
Two Mustangs are ranked in the top 15 of the PGA Tour University rankings. Zachary Kingsland is ranked No. 12 and Will Sides is ranked No. 15. SMU 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.
 
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.