Ben Van Wyk (Georgia Athletics Photo)

In the team competition, Utah leads Georgia by one shot at 3-over, while the Bulldogs are 4-over heading into Saturday.

Utah shot a second round 1-under 279 to jump into the team lead in the tournament, led by Braxton Watts, who sits in solo second place.

Georgia has shot team rounds of 279-285 to get to 4-over. San Francisco and Tennessee are T3 at 5-over, and host school Stanford is in solo fifth place at 6-over. Stanford is looking for its 17th win in the Goodwin Intercollegiate.

Georgia Tech is in solo sixth place at 7-over, BYU is in solo seventh place at 8-over, and Pepperdine is in solo eighth place at 9-over.

In the individual competition, Van Wyk of Georgia is 4-under and leads the field by one shot. Braxton Watts of Utah is in solo second place at 3-under.

Van Wyk has shot rounds of 69-67 and jumped seven spots up the leaderboard with his second round 3-under 67 that consisted of four birdies and just one bogey. Watts shot a second-round 4-under 66 to jump 26 spots up the leaderboard heading into the final round.

William Walsh of Pepperdine, Pablo Ereno of UCLA, and Kristoffer Kuvaas of Pepperdine are T3 at 2-under and two shots back of Van Wyk.

Van Wyk is currently ranked No. 131 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings. He finished as the medalist in the 2023 British Amateur Stoke Play portion and won the 2023 NCAA Division I Midwest Regional.

Watts won the 2023 Saguaro Amateur.

Notable golfers Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford is T6 at 1-under, and Christo Lamprecht of Georgia Tech is T18 at 1-over. Both players are ranked in the top five of the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings.