This Week in Rattlers Golf
Rattler Invitational
February 17-18, 2025
San Antonio (The Dominion Country Club)
From the Tee Box
•   The St. Mary's Men's Golf team hosts the annual Rattler Invitational beginning on Monday at the Dominion Country Club. The 18th hole will be broadcast on FloCollege, as well as a remote roving camera. Live scoring will
•   This is the 11th straight season the Rattler Invitational will be held at The Dominion Country Club and it is the 28th season St. Mary's has hosted a tournament in San Antonio.
•   The field for the Rattler Invitational will be Arkansas-Monticello, Blinn, #40 Cameron, #45 DBU, Delta State, Lubbock Christian, Midland, #26 Midwestern State, Northwest Oklahoma State, Odessa, Texas A&M International, UT Permian Basin, #35 UT Tyler, #36 West Texas A&M and Western New Mexico.
•   The lineup for the Rattlers will be Kongpop Kaikaew (1), Baptiste Touchard (2), Guillaume Paquette (3), Elijah Galvan (4), and Philip Hallstrom (5). Jose Maria Gallegos, Justin Hammett, Oscar Sandberg and Zach Seader will all compete as individuals.
•   The weather forecast for San Antonio calls for sunny skies on Monday with highs in the mid-60s and winds between 5-10 mph. On Tuesday, highs will be in the mid-70s with winds around 18 mph and gusts into the 30s and humidity around 80 percent.
•   StMU opened the spring season with a tournament win at the Fujikura Invitational, winning the 13-team field with a three-round total of 853. Junior Kongpop Kaikaew won individual medalist honors with a five-under-par 211. He earned Lone Star Conference Golfer of the Week honors for the second time this season.
•   The Rattlers had four golfers place in the top 10 at the Fujikura Invitational in #1 Kongpop Kaikaew, Guillaume Paquette tied for third, Baptiste Touchard tied for fifth and Elijah Galvan tied for eighth.
•   St. Mary's jumped from #54 to #22 in the Scoreboard powered by Clippd rankings after the win in California. The Rattlers are 43-16-0 with a weighted average of 64.27.
•   Baptiste Touchard finished in a three-way tie for individual medalist honors at The Hrnciar, ending with a one-over-par 217. He did most of his damage on the par-4 holes, going -1 for a 3.97 average, the second-best average in the field.Â
•   Junior Kongpop Kaikaew rewrote the record books at the Ryan Palmer Foundation Invitational, shooting a school record 62 in the second round and finishing second with a school record 198 for the tournament. He was named Lone Star Conference Golfer of the Week for his efforts.
