Brian Campbell
The 30 collegiate teams advancing to
Nationals
at The Concession Golf Club are set. The
following teams will head to The
Concession Golf Club at the end of the month
to
compete for the NCAA Men's Golf
National Championship (with bolded teams
winning their respective regional):
Illinois,
Southern
Methodist,
UCLA, UNLV, Oregon, UNC-
Charlotte, Stanford, Florida State,
Florida, Clemson,
South
Florida, San Diego State, Oklahoma
State,
Vanderbilt, LSU,
Texas,
Texas Tech, Duke, Auburn, Houston,
Alabama-Birmingham, South
Carolina, USC, Texas Christian, Washington,
Oklahoma, Arizona State,
Georgia Tech, Georgia, and Virginia.
See below for recaps regarding each of the
six
regional tournaments.
CENTRAL REGIONAL -
Sagamore Golf Club -
Noblesville,
Ind.
Not to overshadow the five teams advancing
to
Florida out of the Central Regional,
played in Noblesville, Ind. at Sagamore Golf
Club, but the main story out of Indiana
might be two-time defending national
champion
Alabama being excluded. Their
seventh place finish will leave them without a
chance to three-peat as the Crimson
Tide finished 11 strokes behind fifth-place
finishing Oregon.
Illinois and SMU tied for first place, with
UCLA,
UNLV, and Oregon rounded out the
final teams moving on. Brian Campbell's final
round 65 for
Illinois set a
course record at Sagamore.
full story>
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Maverick
McNealy
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SOUTHEAST REGIONAL - Finley
Golf Course - Chapel Hill, N.C.
full
results>
Stanford sophomore Maverick McNealy won
his
second
tournament in a
row, and third
in the last four as the Cardinal surged back
from
a two-
over
performance
on day one to
take second place, five shots behind UNC-
Charlotte.
Victor Wiggins and Thomas Rowland led the
charge for the
surprising
Charlotte 49ers,
who were ranked 50th in a field that included
top-ranked
Florida State,
11th-ranked Stanford, and 19th-ranked North
Carolina.
Charlotte got
off to
a great start
early in the week thanks to personal
collegiate
records (68)
set in the
first
round by
both Wiggins and teammate Raoul Menard.
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Michael
Gellerman
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SOUTHWEST REGIONAL - The
Farms Golf Club -
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Oklahoma took a 22-shot lead into Saturday's
final round,
and
finished
it off with a 20-stroke victory over Arizona
State
at The
Farms Golf
Club. Jon Rahm of ASU captured the
individual
title to add
to
his
spectacular 2014-2015 season while Michael
Gellerman and
Max
McGreevy of Oklahoma tied for second place.
Pete Wlodkowski of AmateurGolf.com was live
at
The
Farms
on
Saturday, and you can read his full recap
here.
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Martin
Rohwer
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WEST REGIONAL - Olympic
Course at Gold Mountain -
Bremerton, Wash.
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University of Alabama-Birmingham
reemerged
into first
place
after falling a
stroke back of TCU following round two, and
under
overcast
skies in
Bremerton, Washington, the UAB Dragons
captured the
NCAA
West Regional
by two shots over South Carolina. A final-
round
64 from
junior Martin
Rohwer pushed the South Africa native into a
tie
for second
place
individually, while first-round leader Paul
Dunne,
a senior
from Ireland, tied
for seventh place.
Moving on to Nationals from the West
Regional
were USC,
TCU, and
Washington, as well as Kyle Mueller from
Michigan.
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Claudio
Correa
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EAST REGIONAL - The Course at
Yale -
New Haven, Conn. full results>
South Florida ran away with a 14-shot, wire-
to-
wire victory
in
New Haven, Conn., advancing to Nationals in
Bradenton,
Fla.,
which they will host at The Concession Golf
Club.
The Bulls
carded three rounds of three-under par 67 on
the final day,
including fifth-place finisher Claudio Correa,
American
Championship winner Ryan Fricker, and PGA
Tour player
Brooks Koepka's younger brother Chase
Koepka.
Advancing alongside the Bulls are San Diego
State,
Oklahoma
State, Vanderbilt, and LSU.
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Gavin
Hall
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SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL -
The Rawls Course -
Lubbock,
Texas
full
results>
Texas overtook in-state rival Texas Tech at
the
Red
Raiders' home course to grab a four-shot win
at
the South
Central Regional. Gavin Hall, Beau Hossler,
and
Doug Ghim
all finished inside the top-10 while the entire
team,
including Scottie Scheffler and Kramer Hickok
were top-25.
The host team will still advance to Nationals,
finishing in
second place by 10 over Duke, 11 over
Auburn,
and 13
over Houston, who will all be part of a 30-
team
field at The
Concession Golf Club later this month.