California State University Fullerton’s (CSUF) athletics program has a rich history of developing elite athletes. Some of its most notable alumni include MLB players Matt Chapman, Kurt Suzuki, Gabe Kapler, and J.D. Davis, Olympic wrestler and former UFC champion Dan Henderson, and professional softball player and Olympian Jenny Topping. Since its reinstatement as an official Division-I team sport at CSUF, the men’s and women’s golf programs have also produced some talented athletes.
In 2024-25, for example, the women’s golf team made the NCAA Championship for the first time in history, rising from an unranked program at the start of the season to a top-30 team. The men’s team finished second at The Big West Championship, while three of its players—Tegan Andrews, Giacomo Comerio, and Will Tanaka—earned conference accolades.
Several current and former Titans have experienced incredible success at the amateur and professional levels, including one who starred for the women’s team well before the program was reintroduced in 2009-10. Here’s a look at four of the school’s most notable golfers.
Martha Wilkinson-Kirouac
Martha Wilkinson-Kirouac has arguably achieved more than any CSUF golfer in history. She won the Division of Girls’ and Women’s Sports golf championships in 1967, becoming the first woman in any sport at CSUF to win a national title. Three years later, she won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Wee Burn Country Club, beating Cynthia Hill 3 & 2 in the final.
After relocating to Rhode Island in 1972, Wilkinson-Kirouac won several amateur championships as a member of Rhode Island Country Club. She finished first in the New England Women’s Amateur in 1975 and won the R.I. Women’s Golf Association Championship three times in a four-year span from 1974-77. She also won the State Mixed four times with her husband, Bob. Later, while living in Georgia, Wilkinson-Kirouac won the 1986 Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship and 1990 Women’s Southern Amateur.
In addition, she represented the US twice as a member of the Curtis Cup team and was captain of the team in 2004. She is a member of the United States Golf Association’s Women’s Committee and, in 2023, became the first CSUF golfer inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame.
Mark Anguiano
One of the most accomplished male golfers in program history, Mark Anguiano was named to the Big West Conference First Team in three consecutive years from 2012-14, won the individual title at the 2014 Folino Invitational, and set program records for most top-10 finishes in a season (nine) and lowest season stroke average (70.31). Two years after graduating, he became the first CSUF golf alumni to qualify for the U.S. Open.
Anguiano earned entry into the 116th U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania after tying for second place in a qualifier at The Olympic Club and Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, California. Anguiano missed the cut at Oakmont, shooting rounds of 77 and 74 to finish 11-over-par alongside former U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson as well as other notable players like Jimmy Walker and Brandt Snedeker. He finished ahead of PGA Tour winners Hideki Matsuyama and Tom Hoge.
“I have always felt that it’s not a matter of if, but when, as it relates to Mark’s professional success,” said his former coach, Jason Drotter, after Anguiano made the U.S. Open. “I feel very strongly that this is the first step on the way to a very successful career.”
Anguiano has since played dozens of events on the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Canada, and PGA Tour Latinoamérica. His best year on the Korn Ferry Tour was in 2017, when he made the cut in nine of 20 starts and had four top-25 finishes, earning more than $43,000 in prize money. He had six top-25 finishes, including a career-best T2 result at the PTLA Qualifying Tournament, on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2015.
Derek Castillo
Derek Castillo played three seasons at CSUF after transferring from UNLV following his freshman year. He led the team in average scoring in each of those seasons and had a banner year in the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season, winning individual titles at the OC Collegiate Classic in Coto de Caza and the Sacramento State Invitational.
Castillo has since competed professionally on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica and PGA Tour Canada. He made three of seven cuts on the Latinoamérica circuit in 2022.
Davina Xanh
One of the stars of the women’s program in recent years, Davina Xanh is an English golfer who won Big West Golfer of the Year in 2023-24 and earned two conference Golfer of the Month honors in 2024-25. She had six top-five finishes in 12 events in 2024-25, her junior season, and tied for first at the Soboba Springs Classic.
Since the conclusion of the 2024-25 college season, Xanh finished second at the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and 29th at the European Ladies’ Amateur Championship. She was ranked a career-best 230th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of August 25.