UNC newcomer Kaelen Dulany claims individual title at Gene Miranda Falcon Invite after final-round 64 at Eisenhower GC
By Gary Baines – 9/22/2025
Golfers from Colorado-based schools have started to corner the market when it comes to winning the individual title at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational, and 2025 continued the trend.
After Connor Jones of Colorado State (2022), Christoph Bleier of CSU (technically the co-champ in 2023, though he lost in a playoff) and Matthew Wilkinson of CSU (2024) earned championships or ties for first place the past three years at the Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Club, University of Northern Colorado junior Kaelen Dulany did the honors on Monday.
Dulany — in his first season at UNC after being a freshman and redshirt freshman at Arkansas and a sophomore at Texas at San Antonio — picked up his first individual college victory in just his third tournament with UNC. He went 70-68-64 for a 14-under-par total and a three-stroke win. His total was the second-best, relative to par, in the 56-year history of the Falcon Invite, only surpassed by UC Davis’ Thomas Hutchison (-15 in 2021).
Dulany, the 2021 Texas Class 6A individual state champion, made an eagle, 20 birdies and eight bogeys over the three rounds. It was his second individual top-10 of the season as he was 10th in the season-opening Whirlwind Invitational.
In the team competition at the Falcon Invite, UNC finished ninth out of 23 teams, while the University of Denver was 14th and host Air Force 21st. Idaho won with a 23-under total.
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About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com