NCAA Men’s Golf Championship
When: May 28-June 2
Where: Capital City Club Crabapple Course
Host: Georgia Tech
Who: The top five teams from each of six regionals will advance to the finals, along with the top individual not on one of the teams.
Finals format: The first three days are stroke play. The quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are match play.
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Four teams from Georgia and five other individual players were invited to regionals in the NCAA men’s golf championship, which will be played May 28-June 2 at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton.
Eighty-one teams and 45 individuals were selected on Monday night to compete in the six regionals. Each regional is a 54-hole, stroke-play event with 13 teams and 10 individuals, or 14 teams and five individuals, competing. The top five teams and top individual player not from those teams advance to the finals.
The regionals will be played May 16-18.
Georgia Tech, which is hosting the finals, made the field for the 16th consecutive year and is the second seed at the Golden Eagle Golf and Country Club in Tallahassee, Fla. The Yellow Jackets, led by ACC champion Anders Albertson, feature five players ranked among the top 200 in Golfweek’s Sagarin ratings.
Also in Georgia Tech’s regional are ACC opponents Florida State, Wake Forest and N.C. State. Washington will be the top seed. Tech has advanced out of the regional 21 of its past 22 tries.
Georgia is the third seed at the ASU Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Ariz. The Bulldogs are in their 17th consecutive regional and have advanced to the finals in 14 of the past 16 years. UCLA is the region’s top seed with Duke, the ACC champ, seeded No. 2. The region includes Texas A&M, Clemson, Vanderbilt and North Carolina, among others.
Kennesaw State made the field for the third consecutive year and is 10th seed in Tempe. The Owls, led by Jimmy Beck, had 11 top-10 finishes, including four top-fives this year. They are the 10th seed. Kennesaw State finished third at the Atlantic Sun Conference championship. In 2011, they advanced out of the regional to the NCAA championship, finishing 26th.
Georgia Southern, led by Scott Wolfes, is the ninth seed at the Ohio State University Golf Club’s Scarlet Course. New Mexico is the region’s top seed. The regional includes Auburn, South Carolina, Missouri and Virginia, among others. It will be the Eagles’ fourth appearance in the regionals in the past five years.
Georgia State freshman Jonathan Grey claimed the top seed as an individual at the University Club of Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge, La. Grey, the Sun Belt Conference freshman of the year, won his first two tournaments this year and had 11 top-25 finishes. He had a 72.2 scoring average this year, sixth-lowest in a school history.
Augusta State’s Maverick Antcliff (third seed) and Alex Wennstam (No. 9), and Mercer’s Trey Rule (No. 6) and Hans Reimers (10) were invited to compete as individuals in the Tallahassee regional.
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