NCAA golf championship
Where: Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course, Milton.
Who: 30 teams, including Georgia and Georgia Tech.
Course information: 7,319 yards, par 70.
Tickets: Tournament pass is $50 for adults and $35 for youths and seniors; daily pass is $15 for adults and $10 for youths and seniors.
Schedule:
May 27: Practice round
May 28: Stroke play first round, 7 a.m.
May 29: Stroke play second round, 7 a.m.
May 30: Stroke play third round, 7 a.m.
May 31: Match play quarterfinals, 10 a.m.
June 1: Match play semifinals, 10 a.m.
June 2: Match play championship, 10 a.m.
Georgia and Georgia Tech will carry the flag for the state in the NCAA men’s golf championship, which will start at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton on May 28 with the championship match on June 2.
The Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets are two of the 30 teams and six individuals who advanced out of regional play, which concluded Saturday at sites around the country.
The No. 15 Bulldogs are in the finals for the 44th time and are seeking their third national title to go along with victories in 1999 and 2005. They advanced by finishing second in the Tempe regional.
The No. 7 Yellow Jackets are in the finals for the 26th time and are seeking their first national title. They advanced by finishing fourth in the Tallahassee regional.
Kennesaw State and Georgia Southern failed to advance out of regional play. Georgia State’s Jonathan Grey failed to advance as an individual, losing in a playoff after finishing 2-over in the Baton Rouge regional. Augusta State’s Maverick Antcliff and Alex Wennstam, and Mercer’s Hans Reimers and Trey Rule also failed to advance out of individual play in the Tallahassee regional.
The Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets will be targeting Texas, the defending national champ, as well as top-ranked California, which won the Pullman regional by 20 strokes, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 UCLA, which won the Tempe regional by 17 strokes, No. 5 New Mexico, No. 6 Washington and No. 10 Florida. Nine teams from the SEC advanced to the finals, including Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, South Carolina, Arkansas and Texas A&M. Two teams from the ACC advanced, the other being Florida State. Duke, the ACC champ, failed to advance out of its regional.
Individuals who advanced are North Texas’ Rodolfo Cazaubon, South Alabama’s Tyler Klava, who defeated Grey, Austin Peay’s Dustin Korte, Virginia’s Denny McCarthy, SMU’s Mario Clemens and Richmond’s Daniel Walker.
The finals have an interesting format to decide the champion. The tournament starts with 54 holes of stroke play over three days. Each team will send out five players with the four lowest scores counting. The top eight schools will advance to three days of match play, in which five players on each team compete against each other. Each match is worth a point. The team with the most point advances.
The individual champ will be crowned after the stroke play portion.
They will face a long course. The Crabapple measures 7,319 yards at par 70.
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