NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships Team

- 16.48

About |
photo src: coachofgolf.com

The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf.

The teams that win their respective Division I conference championships are given automatic spots in the regionals. A selection committee decides which other teams play in the regionals. The top teams in each regionals advance to the championship. In addition, the best player in each tournament from teams not qualified also advance to the next round as individual competitors.

It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of stroke play being seeded and concluding with an 8-team match play playoff. There is also an award for the lowest scoring individual competitor.

Many individual winners have gone on to have successful careers on the PGA Tour, including 1961 champion Jack Nicklaus, 1967 champion Hale Irwin, 1996 champion Tiger Woods, and three-time champions Ben Crenshaw and Phil Mickelson.


Knight Earns Medalist Honor; Women's Golf Places Second at 2017 ...
photo src: merrimackathletics.com


Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews



Results

Pre-NCAA era, match play (1897-1938)

  • Team scores, individual scores, and course pars are not kept in official NCAA records before 1939.

NCAA era, match play (1939-1964)

NCAA era, stroke play (1965-2008)

NCAA era, stroke and match play (2009-present)

  • § Won via a playoff.

Top 25 College Golf Teams Video



Non-American winners

Americans had captured all of the titles from the tournament's inception, until James McLean of Australia won in 1998. Luke Donald of England won in 1999. Alejandro CaƱizares of Spain won in 2003, followed by James Lepp (2005) and Matt Hill (2009), both from Canada, and Thomas Pieters of Belgium in 2012.


Fuenfstueck Caps Career With Top-25 Finish At NCAA Championships ...
photo src: www.cofcsports.com


Team titles

The Intercollegiate Golf Association (later named the National Intercollegiate Golf Association (NIGA)) sponsored the annual tournament and awarded titles from 1897 through 1938. In 1939, the NCAA assumed tournament sponsorship and began awarding championship titles.

Schools are listed by their current names, which do not necessarily match those used when schools won their titles.


Collegiate athletes to battle for 2015 Canadian University ...
photo src: golfcanada.ca


Multiple winners

Individual champion

The following men have won more than one individual championship:

  • 3: Ben Crenshaw, Phil Mickelson
  • 2: Dick Crawford, Dexter Cummings, George Dunlap, Fred Lamprecht, Scott Simpson

Individual champion's school

The following schools have produced more than one individual champion:

  • 13 champions: Yale
  • 8 champions: Harvard, Houston, Oklahoma State
  • 7 champions: Princeton
  • 6 champions: Arizona State, Texas
  • 5 champions: Ohio State
  • 4 champions: Southern California
  • 3 champions: Georgia Tech, LSU, Michigan, Stanford, Tulane, Wake Forest
  • 2 champions: Florida, Georgetown, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Purdue, San Jose State, UNLV

Pirates Gain WGCA Top-25 GPA - Seton Hall University
photo src: www.shupirates.com


Winners of both U.S. Amateur and collegiate titles

The following men have won both the collegiate individual championship and the U.S. Amateur. Only Jack Nicklaus (1961), Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996), Ryan Moore (2004), and Bryson DeChambeau (2015) have managed the feat in the same year.

Source of the article : Wikipedia



EmoticonEmoticon

 

Start typing and press Enter to search