THE FLATZ – Georgia Tech's No. 17 ranked golf team will continue its quest to advance to its 34th NCAA Men's Division I Golf Championship when the Yellow Jackets take to the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional Tournament on Monday. Start. The tournament begins Monday at Finley Golf Club.chapel hill, north carolina
A total of 81 teams and 45 individuals will compete over the next three days at six different regional venues for a spot in the NCAA Championships. The top five teams from each region and the top individuals not affiliated with those teams will advance to the finals, which will be held from May 24th to May 29th at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
As the No. 3 seed, Tech will be matched up with No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Alabama in Monday's first round, starting at 7:30 a.m. on the first tee. The top three teams on the leaderboard tee off at 7:30 a.m. each day, while the second and third round pairings (Tuesday and Wednesday) are determined by the teams' cumulative scores.
The tech companies have advanced to the NCAA Regional Round in each of the past four years (the NCAA Championships and Regional Rounds were not held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), as the NCAA adopted a regional qualifying format in 1989. Since then, he has won 27 times. He won the 2022 regional title in Columbus, Ohio, and won the 2023 regional tournament in Salem, South Carolina by eight strokes. The Yellow Jackets have played in NCAA regionals for the 26th consecutive year and the 33rd time in 35 years that the NCAA has used a regional qualifying format for its championships.
The 13-team field includes nine teams listed in the top 50 teams on the Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings. In seed order, the field also includes East Tennessee, Northwestern, Baylor, VCU, Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State, Clemson, Michigan, Ball State and Howard. There are also 10 people on site.
The other five regional tournaments will be held in Austin, Texas (University of Texas Golf Club), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (University Club), and Rancho Santa Fe, California (Farms Golf Club). Stanford, California (Stanford Golf Course) and West Lafayette, Indiana (Burke Boilermaker Golf Course).
Tech finished third at last month's ACC Championship.
Team Update – Tech was ranked as high as No. 10 in Scoreboard’s NCAA rankings at the beginning of the spring season and is currently No. 17 after finishing third at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in Charlotte last month. , as well as North Carolina Institute of Technology. This spring, he was runner-up at the Water Sound Invitational, the RE Lamkin Invitational, Linger Longer Invitational, Calusa Cup he was 4th, the Goodwin he was 5th, and the Amer Ali Intercollegiate he was 4th. He achieved a score of 6th place.
Among Tech's five starters at last year's NCAA Championships were ACC Player of the Year Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa), fifth-year player Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia), and sophomore Hiroshi Tai (George, Georgia). 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 Hepler, who led Tech to 19 NCAA championship appearances in his 29 years on the Flats, has named freshmen Cale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) to the Jackets. He started in six of the seven games. Spring tournament.
Lamprecht won the tournament twice in 2023-2024 and is ranked No. 6 in the Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings, No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and No. 2 in the PGA Tour College Rankings. The senior has won the Byron Nelson Award and is one of three finalists for the Ben Hogan Award as College Player of the Year. They tied for third at last month's ACC Championship, Forester tied for eighth, and Ty tied for 12th.
Forrester has finished in the top 10 three times this year, while Ty has two and Fontenot once.
Lamprecht has two top-10 finishes in three NCAA regional appearances during his career. At last year's Salem (S.C.) Regional, Lamprecht tied for third, Forester tied for 14th, and Ty tied for 18th.
Tournament Information – 81 teams and 45 individuals will compete in six regional qualifying tournaments for a spot in the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship Finals. The top five teams and one individual from each region will advance to the finals (30 teams and six individuals total). The finals will be held from May 24th to 29th at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
Each NCAA region is a 54-hole stroke play event with 13 teams and 10 individuals, or 14 teams and 5 individuals. Technology is part of a regional field consisting of 13 teams and 10 individuals. 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).
The Chapel Hill Regional will be held at Finley Golf Club on the campus of the University of North Carolina. This will be the first college men's tournament at this location since 2021. The course only partially reopened to members last October after extensive renovations by UNC alumnus Davis Love III and Love Golf Design. The district tournament will be over 7,084 yards and play to a par of 70.
Competition begins on the 1st and 10th tees at 7:30 a.m. ET each day during the tournament. Pairings are determined by seeding in the first round and by team scores in the second and third rounds.
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About Georgia Tech Golf
Georgia Tech's golf team is in its 29th year under head coach Bruce Hepler, winning 72 tournaments during his tenure. Hepler is the 10th longest-tenured head coach in Division I men's golf. His jacket is yellow for the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, which he has won 19 times, the NCAA Championships he has appeared in 33 times, and the National Runner-up he has been 5 times. Connect with Georgia Tech Golf on social media by liking his Facebook page or following him below. Twitter (@GTGolf) And Instagram. For more information about Tech Golf, visit Ramblinwreck.com.
