The Flats – Georgia Tech's No. 17 ranked golf team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Golf Regional Tournament and is the No. 3 seed for the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional Tournament, which will be played May 13-15.Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon that all 81 teams and 45 players will compete for spots in the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship Finals, to be held May 13-15 at different venues, as well as spots in six regional qualifying tournaments. Announced. The top five teams from each region will advance to the finals, which will be held May 24-29 at the Omni LaCosta Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Of the 81 teams, 30 automatically qualified by winning the conference championship, and the other 51 were acquired through at-large bids.
The Yellow Jackets play in the 26-team NCAA Regional Tournament.th 1 year in a row, 33 years in a rowrd It's been 35 years since the NCAA adopted a regional qualifying format for its championships. Tech has advanced to the NCAA regional round in each of the past four years (the NCAA championship and regional round were not held in 2020 due to COVID-19), and will advance to the regional title in Columbus, Ohio in 2022. and won a regional championship in Salem in 2023. , SC, 8 strokes behind.
In the Chapel Hill area, where Tech will compete, North Carolina State, ranked No. 4 in college golf, is the top seed and includes nine teams listed in the top 50 of the Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings. In seed order, the field also includes Alabama, East Tennessee, Northwestern, Baylor, VCU, Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State, Clemson, Michigan, Ball State and Howard. UNC is the host institution.
Other regional sites and their top seeds are Tennessee (University of Texas Golf Club) in Austin, Texas, Auburn (University Club) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Arizona State (Farms Golf Club) in Rancho Santa Fe, California. . Florida State University in Stanford, California (Stanford Golf Course) and Vanderbilt in West Lafayette, Indiana (Burke Boilermaker Golf Course).
Team updates – Tech University was ranked as high as No. 10 in the Scoreboard NCAA rankings at the beginning of the spring season and currently sits at No. 17 after finishing third at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in Charlotte last month. Masu. NC Tech also placed runner-up at the Watersound Invitational, placed 4th at the RE Lamkin Invitational, Ringer Longer Invitational, Calusa Cup, 5th at The Goodwin and this spring's Ameer Ali Intercollegiate. He took 6th place.
Three of Tech's five star players from last year's NCAA Championships will return for this tournament, including the All-American. Christ Lamprecht (George, South Africa)5th grade Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia) and second year student Hiroshi Tai (Singapore). Forester is the only player to appear in all 11 of the Yellow Jackets' stroke play events this year. Lamprecht missed the Calusa Cup to compete in the Masters, and Ty did not play in the fall opener at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational.head coach bruce heplerHe started as a freshman, leading Tech to 19 NCAA Championship appearances in his 29 years at Flatts. Cale Fontenot (Lafayat, Louisiana) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, California) They won six of the Jackets' seven spring tournaments.
Regional Qualifying Format – Each region is a 54-hole stroke play event with either 13 teams and 10 individuals or 14 teams and 5 individuals. The top five teams after 54 holes, plus one player from each region who is not on those teams, will advance to the NCAA Championship Finals in Carlsbad, California. This final will feature 30 teams and 6 players.
Georgia Tech advanced to match play after placing third in stroke play at the ACC Championship two weeks ago. (Photo courtesy of Andy Meade)
“We've reached a point in the season that we've all worked for, so we want to compete and see how far we can go. We have a great group of people who work hard and are capable and talented. But we have worked hard so far and we have to play well for three days to have a chance of promotion.”
Head Coach Bruce Hepler
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