The Stanford men’s golf team tees off tomorrow at the ASU Thunderbird Intercollegiate in Tempe, Ariz., hoping to improve on last year’s seventh-place finish.

First-round action begins tomorrow morning at the par-72, 7,037-yard Karsten Golf Course and the tournament will wrap up with an 18-hole final round on Saturday.

Senior Blake Mastalir, who shot a season-low 68 in the final round of the Thunderbird last season, leads five Cardinal competitors in this year’s field.

Junior Kevin Blue, sophomore Kyle Gentry and freshmen Zack Miller and Brandon Lawson will also compete for the Cardinal, while freshman Matt Savage, an Arizona native, will compete as an individual.

Miller tied for fourth with a one-under-par 215 at the Oregon Duck Invitational on March 23, at which Stanford placed third as a team with a 15-over-par 879.

Gentry tied for 24th at the Thunderbird as a freshman and shot a season-low 68 in the second round, while Blue tied for 48th.

Host Arizona State won the tournament last year with a three-round score of 824, eight shots ahead of second-place Southern California. Fifteen schools make up this year’s field, including non-conference teams from Pepperdine, Texas Tech and San Diego State. The Aztecs’ Jeff Hansen fired a five-under par 211 to win the Oregon Duck Invitational.

The Cardinal plays host to the U.S. Intercollegiate next weekend before returning to Arizona for the Pacific-10 Conference Championships to be held April 26-27.