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It鈥檚 not a secret where Mesa Falleur鈥檚 game is at right now.

Not to his coach. Not to his teammates. Certainly not to himself.

鈥淚鈥檓 playing really well,鈥� New Mexico鈥檚 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 that鈥檚 helped buoy UNM to No. 21 in the NCAA rankings 鈥� 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). That鈥檚 all after joining the Lobos in 2024 as the 3,404th ranked amateur golfer and it鈥檚 exactly why Lobo golf coach Jake Harrington thought the University of Missouri-Kansas City transfer could be among the league鈥檚 best.

鈥淢esa has stepped up in a huge way for us,鈥� UNM鈥檚 third-year head coach said Wednesday. 鈥淎nd we go the way Mesa goes. He鈥檚 our number-one guy. There鈥檚 no ifs, ands or buts about that.鈥�

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 UNM鈥檚 last fall event, however, Falleur fell back to an 11-over-par finish, good for 25th place. If golf isn鈥檛 already demanding enough, he felt he was going into tournaments in a 鈥渘egative state of emotions,鈥� the fallout from playing a little more sore than he鈥檇 like.

His solution?

Take a month off from the game.

鈥淚鈥檓 just such a big competitor, I鈥檓 always like, 鈥榦h man, I need to do better, I need to just marginally get better at this,鈥欌�� Falleur said of his decision to reverse course and take time away. 鈥� 鈥� That was huge for my body.鈥�

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 鈥渁bstract鈥� way, detached from the situation at hand.

For example: 鈥淚f you鈥檙e on the putting green and you have a five-footer, you have no nerves, you鈥檙e like, 鈥極.K., this is gonna go in,鈥欌�� Falleur said. 鈥淏ut if you have a five-footer to win the tournament, all of a sudden it becomes way tougher.

鈥淗aving that abstract thought of, at the end of the day it鈥檚 just another golf shot 鈥� it allows you to do the best you can do.鈥�

And while that change to Falleur鈥檚 approach has shown up in scorecards, perhaps no one has seen it in Falleur quite like Harrington. If he wasn鈥檛 the most confident golfer coming in, Harrington believes his senior has now proven himself among some of the best 鈥� so why not be confident?

鈥淚n the last two months, Mesa鈥檚 mentality has been, 鈥榗oach, I know I鈥檓 gonna win this thing and I鈥檓 gonna go out there and do it, and we just need to bring the rest of the team along,鈥欌�� Harrington added. 鈥淗e has no problem putting the team on his back when he needs to 鈥� He really believes, like he should, that he鈥檚 one of the best, if not the best, players in the country.

Exactly where he 鈥� and UNM 鈥� 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 .