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Mesa Falleur is excelling in golf, attributing his success to a Zen approach. He is competing in the Mountain West Men's Golf Championship from May 3-5 in Tucson, Arizona.
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Mountain West Men's Golf Championship
May 3-5
Omni Tucson National Resort
Tucson, Arizona
Itâs not a secret where Mesa Falleurâs game is at right now.
Not to his coach. Not to his teammates. Certainly not to himself.
âIâm playing really well,â New Mexicoâs senior golfer chuckled Wednesday.
In late March, Falleur finished 12-under-par at The Goodwin to win his second individual title of the 2025-26 season. The Muskogee, Oklahoma native has also finished top 15 in four of his last five tournaments, a run thatâs helped buoy UNM to No. 21 in the NCAA rankings â the best in the Mountain West.
In turn, Falleur himself has rocketed to 21st in the NCAA rankings (the second-best placement of any Mountain West golfer) and 72nd in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR). Thatâs all after joining the Lobos in 2024 as the 3,404th ranked amateur golfer and itâs exactly why Lobo golf coach Jake Harrington thought the University of Missouri-Kansas City transfer could be among the leagueâs best.
âMesa has stepped up in a huge way for us,â UNMâs third-year head coach said Wednesday. âAnd we go the way Mesa goes. Heâs our number-one guy. Thereâs no ifs, ands or buts about that.â
Getting to that point, especially at this time, required a step back.
At the start of the fall season, Falleur was coming off a back injury without knowing quite what to expect. But a third-place finish in The Wohali and a win at the Windon Memorial Classic masked any issues to the outside world. Falleur looked exactly like the All-Mountain West golfer he was already known to be.
In UNMâs last fall event, however, Falleur fell back to an 11-over-par finish, good for 25th place. If golf isnât already demanding enough, he felt he was going into tournaments in a ânegative state of emotions,â the fallout from playing a little more sore than heâd like.
His solution?
Take a month off from the game.
âIâm just such a big competitor, Iâm always like, âoh man, I need to do better, I need to just marginally get better at this,ââ Falleur said of his decision to reverse course and take time away. â ⊠That was huge for my body.â
Falleur returned after that month feeling mentally better, too. Not only was he making fewer mistakes managing the course, he was looking at every shot in a more âabstractâ way, detached from the situation at hand.
For example: âIf youâre on the putting green and you have a five-footer, you have no nerves, youâre like, âO.K., this is gonna go in,ââ Falleur said. âBut if you have a five-footer to win the tournament, all of a sudden it becomes way tougher.
âHaving that abstract thought of, at the end of the day itâs just another golf shot â it allows you to do the best you can do.â
And while that change to Falleurâs approach has shown up in scorecards, perhaps no one has seen it in Falleur quite like Harrington. If he wasnât the most confident golfer coming in, Harrington believes his senior has now proven himself among some of the best â so why not be confident?
Mesa Falleur credits his success to a Zen approach, focusing on mental clarity and calmness.
The Mountain West Men's Golf Championship is scheduled for May 3-5.
The championship is being held at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona.
Mesa Falleur's recent success is attributed to his effective Zen approach to the game.

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âIn the last two months, Mesaâs mentality has been, âcoach, I know Iâm gonna win this thing and Iâm gonna go out there and do it, and we just need to bring the rest of the team along,ââ Harrington added. âHe has no problem putting the team on his back when he needs to ⊠He really believes, like he should, that heâs one of the best, if not the best, players in the country.
Exactly where he â and UNM â wants his game to be.
Sean Reider covers college football and other sports for the Journal. You can reach him at sreider@abqjournal.com or via X at @lenaweereider.