Steven Kupcho Earns 2nd Trip to Topgolf Tour Championship

He and teammate Connor Barr defeat 25 other teams to earn spot in Las Vegas

A player with a very familiar last name will represent Colorado at November’s Topgolf Tour Championship in Las Vegas.

Twenty-five-year-old Steven Kupcho—the 2012 Colorado Golf Association’s Les Fowler Player of the Year and the older brother of 2018 NCAA Division I champion Jennifer Kupcho—partnered with his former University of Northern Colorado roommate, Connor Barr, to win the Topgolf Tour’s regional championship held July 30 at the Topgolf in Centennial.

In the final round, they defeated another former UNC Bear, Rich Lash, and his partner, 2016 Rocky Mountain Open champion Nick Mason.

Kupcho and Barr had just come off competing in the CoBank Colorado Open, where they respectively finished T32 (8-under 208) and T36 (7-under 209) in an event shortened to three rounds after a torrential rainstorm forced the cancellation of the first day’s action.

Mason also competed in the Open, shooting even par over two rounds to miss the cut by three strokes.

Lash and teammate Danny Hahn won last year’s regional and advanced to the Tour Championship in Las Vegas, while in the inaugural edition of the event, in 2016, Kupcho and teammate Braden Baer not only got to the Topgolf Tour Championship; they also came in second overall, barely missing out on the winner-take-all $50,000 grand prize.

At this year’s competition, Kupcho and Barr (not Baer) posted an incredible 729 points in the three-game opening round, 165 more than any of the other 25 teams. Of those teams, eight advanced to the next round, from which Mason/Lash and Kupcho/Barr emerged as the finalists.

Competing in a head-to-head game of TopContender Team, Kupcho/Barr defeated Mason/Lash, 265-190.

The TopGolf Tour Championship takes place November 2 at Topgolf Las Vegas. Twenty-two two-person teams will compete for the $50,000 grand prize.