#5 Arkansas Wraps Regular Season at West Virginia
FAYETTEVILLE – The Razorback men’s golf program’s 2025-26 regular season will come to a close as #5 Arkansas plays in the West Virginia Mountaineer Invitational, played at the par-72 Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, W.Va., on April 13-14.
Arkansas headlines the 19-team field. The event will have a shotgun start on Monday morning and is scheduled to play 36 holes. The event will conclude Tuesday with 18 holes. Also in the field are #6 Oklahoma State, #8 Texas Tech, #36 Clemson and #38 TCU.
This is the second time Arkansas has played in the Mountaineer Invitational. In the fall of 2016, the Razorbacks won the Invitational as all five Hogs finished among the top 25, including Luis Garza (4th), Alvaro Ortiz (T-5th), Dylan Naidoo (T-5th), Charles Kim (T-23rd) and Mason Overstreet (T-25th).
Erich Fortlage leads the Razorbacks. The sophomore is ranked 19th in the NCAA and he has an average finish of 11th, thanks to five top-10 finishes with three top-5 finishes. He leads the team in scoring average (70.38), rounds in the 60s (9) and rounds at par or better (20 of his 24 rounds played).
Gerardo Gomez has been Arkansas’s hottest golfer in the spring. He has four top-15 finishes, including a T-4th finish at the Cabo Collegiate and a T-3rd finish at the Valspar Collegiate. He is tied with Fortlage by having the team’s low round seven times this season and he is second on the team with a 71.05 scoring average.
Thomas Curry has also had an impressive spring. After playing the Watersound Invitational and tying for seventh, Curry has a 10th-place finish at Cabo and a T-6th finish at the All-American Intercollegiate. John Daly II has a 71.33 season scoring average with three top-5 finishes as he has fired a 68 once in four of his five spring events.
Cam Smith, who has a 71.44 season scoring average, rounds out the Razorback starting five while Niilo Maki-Petaja, who has a 71.71 season scoring average, will play as an individual.
The Razorbacks will take two weeks off after the Mountaineer Invitational before heading to the SEC Championships, played April 22-26 in St. Simons Island, Ga., at the Sea Island Golf Club – Seaside Course.
MOUNTAINEER INVITATIONAL
Host: West Virginia
Pete Dye Golf Club
Bridgeport, W.Va.
Par: 72 • 7,308 yards
Format: 5 count 4 ||36 holes Monday / 18 Holes Tuesday
FIELD:
#5 Arkansas
Appalachian State
Ball State
Baylor
#36 Clemson
George Mason
James Madison
Navy
UNC Greensboro
#6 Oklahoma State
Saint Francis (Pa.)
#38 TCU
#8 Texas Tech
Xavier
Villanova
VCU
West Virginia
Western Kentucky
William & Mary
ARKANSAS LINEUP:
Erich Fortlage (1)
Gerardo Gómez (2)
Thomas Curry (3)
John Daly II (4)
Cam Smith (5)
Niilo Mäki-Petäjä (Ind)
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