KOHALA COAST, Hawai'i – Top collegiate golfers will once again ascend to the west side of the Big Island for this year's Amer Ari Intercollegiate event on Feb. 5-7 at the Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club.
This year's field features seven of the last 10 NCAA Division I Champions, including 2025 champ Oklahoma State. Eight teams enter this week's competition most recently ranked inside the top 25 by Scoreboard powered by clippd.
Pepperdine will be the top ranked team at No. 4 after making a big leap up the ladder from the previous iteration of rankings.
Oklahoma State also claimed last year's Amer Ari victory with a team score of minus-64.
On the individual side, 31 of the latest top-100 ranked golfers will be competing among the field of 20 total teams — including 2024 National Champion Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech and individual runner-ups Preston Stouth of Oklahoma State and Jackson Koivun of Auburn.
Oklahoma State's Ethan Fang enters as the highest ranked golfer at No. 3 followed by No. 4 Mahanth Chirravuri (Pepperdine), No. 5 Connor Graham (Texas Tech), No. 8 Josiah Gilbert (Auburn), No. 9 Brady Siravo (Pepperdine) and No. 10 Adam Bresnu (Texas Tech).
Texas' Tommy Morrison won last year's event with a minus-21 score.
2025 EVENT
- Feb. 5-7, 2026
- Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club North Course
- 7:30 AM Shotgun Start Each Day
- Par 72, 6,913 Yards
- 35th Year
AMER ARI INTERCOLLEGIATE
The Amer Ari Intercollegiate has brought some of the best golfers in the nation to the west side of the Big Island year-in and year-out since its inception in 1991. From Tiger Woods to Jordan Spieth to Matt Kuchar, the Amer Ari Intercollegiate has hosted a myriad of players through the years who have gone on to professional stardom. Originally titled "Taylor Made Big Island Intercollegiate Golf Tournament" and co-hosted by Hawai'i Hilo and UH Manoa, the event was played at the Waikoloa Beach Resort with other venues at the Hapuna Golf Course at Mauna Kea Resort before moving to Mauna Lani in 2024. In 2010, it was renamed in honor of longtime supporter Mr Amer Ari.
The 2025 Amer Ari Intercollegiate was ranked the 10th best collegiate event of the year by the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
2026 PARTICIPATING TEAMS (FEB. 4 RANKINGS)
- No. 4 Pepperdine
- 2021 NCAA Division I Champion
- No. 5 Auburn
- 2025 NCAA Division I Quarterfinalist
- 2024 NCAA Division I Champion
- No. 6 Texas
- 2025 NCAA Division I Quarterfinalist
- 2022 NCAA Division I Champion
- 2019 NCAA Division I Runner-Up
- 2016 NCAA Division I Runner-Up
- No. 7 Arizona State
- 2025 NCAA Division I Quarterfinalist
- 2022 NCAA Division I Runner-Up
- No. 11 Oklahoma State
- 2025 NCAA Division I Champion
- 2018 NCAA Division I Champion
- No. 15 North Carolina
- 2024 NCAA Division I Quarterfinalist
- No. 16 Texas Tech
- No. 17 Georgia Tech
- 2024 NCAA Division I Semifinalist
- 2023 NCAA Division I Runner-Up
- No. 26 UCLA
- No. 35 Stanford
- 2019 NCAA Division I Champion
- No. 36 Washington
- No. 56 Pacific
- No. 74 San Jose State
- No. 90 Oregon
- 2016 NCAA Division I Champion
- 2017 NCAA Division I Runner-Up
- No. 109 Oregon State
- No. 146 UH Manoa
- No. 171 UC Davis
- No. 216 UT Arlington
- Osaka Gakuin
- No. 36 (D-II) Hawai'i Hilo
TOP 100 RANKED GOLFERS (AS OF FEB. 4)
- No. 3 Ethan Fang, Oklahoma State
- No. 4 Mahanth Chirravuri, Pepperdine
- 2025 NCAA Division I Individual No. 9
- No. 5 Connor Graham, Texas Tech
- No. 8 Josiah Gilbert, Auburn
- No. 9 Brady Siravo, Pepperdine
- No. 10 Adam Bresnu, Texas Tech
- No. 12 Connor Williams, Arizona State
- 2025 NCAA Division I Individual No. 7
- No. 16 Jackson Koivun, Auburn
- 2025 NCAA Division I Individual No. 4
- 2024 NCAA Division I Individual Runner-Up
- No. 23 Michael Mjaaseth, Arizona State
- No. 24 Luke Potter, Texas
- No. 25 Tim Wiedemeyer, Texas Tech
- No. 27 Niall Sheils Donegan, North Carolina
- No. 28 Gaven Lane, Oklahoma State
- No. 29 Willy Walsh, Pepperdine
- No. 32 Preston Stout, Oklahoma State
- 2025 NCAA Division I Individual Third Place
- No. 35 Daniel Bennett, Texas
- No. 41 Baylor Larrabee, UCLA
- No. 46 Carson Bertagnole, North Carolina
- No. 47 Christiaan Maas, Texas
- No. 54 Billy Davis, Auburn
- No. 58 Hiroshi Tai, Georgia Tech
- 2024 NCAA Division I Individual Champion
- No. 59 Tommy Morrison, Texas
- No. 60 Aidan Tran, Georgia Tech
- No. 62 Cayden Pope, Auburn
- No. 69 Eric Lee, Oklahoma State
- No. 70 Sebastian Desoisa, Oregon
- No. 75 Pongsapak Laopakdee, Arizona State
- No. 77 Albert Hansson, Georgia Tech
- No. 89 Ratchanon Chantananuwat, Stanford
- No. 91 Matt Comegys, Texas
- No. 92 Andrew Riley, North Carolina
