The 1983 Pacific men's golf team finished 15th in the country and was the first Tiger golf team to be honored by the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame after elevating the program to even more prominent status as one of the top programs in the nation.
The 1982-83 men's golf team was rated as high as 10th nationally during the season. Pacific earned a spot in the NCAAÂ Championships, despite playing in one of the toughest districts in the country, which included 33 teams at the time. Prior to the introduction of NCAA Regional Tournaments in 1989 to determine the field of 30 teams for the NCAA Championships, only 6 teams were selected from District Eight.
Pacific finished in the top five in nine of 13 tournaments during the 1982-83 season, including back-to-back victories in the Stanford Fall Invitational and the Pacific Autumn Invitational. The Tigers finished second three times and posted two third-place finishes in the spring of 1983.
Ken Earle and Jeff Wilson, All-Americans and individual Hall of Fame members, had exceptional college golf careers at Pacific. Their individual season records in 1982-83 made them the undisputed stars of the team, as Earle won the Aztec Invitational and finished among the top ten in 10 tournaments in 1982-83. Wilson won the Wolf Pack Invitational and the Pacific Autumn Invitational that year, finishing among the top 10 seven times.
The real story of the 1982-83 team was its extraordinary depth. In addition to the aforementioned All-Americans, Brad Penfold, Kevin Orona and Jeff Brehaut rounded out the cast of usual starters that compiled a yet to be equaled season record among District Eight competition. The team also received significant individual contributions from Mark Sear, Todd Barsotti, Kevin Coombs and freshman Wade Farris.
The 1982-83 squad began to form when Coombs, Penfold, Earle and Orona joined the Pacific program in the fall of 1980. The very next year, in 1981, the brilliant freshmen class of Wilson, Sear,  Barsotti, Mark Mitchell and Jeff Brehaut arrived on campus.Â
