About The Team 

Since taking over the program in 2009 head coach Craig Cowles has established the Elms College men’s golf team as one of the elite teams in the New England Region.

The Blazers completed a historic season in 2010-11 winning a combined eight of 14 invitationals including the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Championship and the program’s first-ever Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship. Three players earned all-conference honors during the campaign including Philip Rurak (Wilbraham, Mass.) and Kyle Simard (Thorndike, Mass.) who were each named First Team All-NECC, while Henry Fall (Harpswell, Maine) garnered second team accolades. Coach Cowles was named the 2010-11 NECC Coach of the Year following the fall season.

Following its historic performance in 2010-11, Elms continued its stellar play during the 2011-12 season highlighted by three invitational wins, a second place finish in the NECC Championship and earned fifth place out of 16 teams at the ECAC Championship. Nick Smith (Enfield, Conn.) was named the league’s rookie of the year and First Team All-NECC, while Fall and Rurak were named first and second team all-conference respectively.  

The Blazers, who compete in both the fall and spring, continued to display consistency in the fall portion of their 2012-13 slate, picking up a victory in the Blazer Invitational, placing third out of 12 teams during the Trinity College Invitational to start the season, and notching a third place finish in the field of seven teams at the NECC Championship. For his efforts, coach Cowles was named NECC Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons

During Elms’ lone home invitational of the fall, Rurak and Fall each shot a low round score of 73 and were named tri-medalists along with Rhode Island College’s top golfer who also carded a 73. Rurak also registered a round of 73 in day one action of the NECC Championship to highlight his best rounds during the first part of the 2012-13 slate.

Fall scored his season-low round of 72 at the Emmanuel College quad match in Boston, Mass. and finished two strokes behind Tyler Cudnik (Hampden, Mass.) who delivered his collegiate best mark of 70 to win the event on the strength of back-to-back 35s.

As members of the NCAA, ECAC, and NECC, the golf team competes against many of the region’s best Division III programs each season. The Blazers host two or three home invitationals each year. In the fall of 2008, the Blazers hosted the inaugural two-day NECC Championship, and in 2007, they hosted the ECAC Division III New England Championship.