The No. 2 Stanford men’s golf team heads down to the University of Southern California’s Collegiate Invitational today at the North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, Calif. for 36 holes of play through tomorrow.

Of the 15 teams participating in the tournament, five are included in Golfworld.com’s Top 15 in the Nation list. These include No. 2 Stanford, No. 6 Coastal Carolina, No. 7 UCLA, No. 8 USC and No. 13 Brigham Young. Other participating teams include Loyola Marymount, California, Washington State, Oregon State, Oregon, Pepperdine, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas Tech and Tennessee.

Eighteen of the nation’s top 100 players are participating in the tournament as well, most notably including USC’s Jamie Lovemark (No.2), BYU’s Daniel Summerhays (No. 15) and Stanford’s own Zack Miller (No. 10), Rob Grube (No. 24), Matt Savage (No. 27) and Joseph Bramlett (No. 38). Stanford will be seeing some new faces in this tournament, as there will be an expected shuffle in the lineup.

Last week, the Cardinal came in second place in the Puerto Rico Classic. Stanford came up one stroke short behind Georgia (850), landing in a tie for second place with Clemson University. Freshman Joseph Bramlett won his first collegiate tournament individually, ending in a tie with Georgia Tech’s Robert Castro.

Stanford is no stranger to the Collegiate Invitational, having participated frequently in its history. The Cardinal can look forward to some competitive play and hopes for a high ranking in the tournament, considering that Stanford has ranked in the top five on the team leaderboard in each of the seven tournaments that it has participated in so far.