31st May 2023
Final
FLORIDA (2) beat GEORGIA TECH (5) 3-1-0 in the 2023 NCAA Men’s Division I National Championship Final.
It was the program’s fifth national title and first since 2001 and coach JC Deacon’s first since taking over responsibility for the team from Buddy Alexander in 2014.
The Gators enjoyed a strong post-season, winning the SEC Championship before qualifying 4th in their Bath NCAA Regional Championship.
Florida (Photo: Gators Golf)
Here are the full game scores: –
Match Play Final Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
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30th May 2023
Match Play Semi-Finals
FLORIDA (2) and GEORGIA TECH (5) overcame FLORIDA STATE (6) and NORTH CAROLINA (1) respectively to claim their place in tomorrow’s Championship match.
England’s Jack Bigham enjoyed a 6&5 win against Yuxin Lin, the 2017 and 2019 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion, but it proved to be in vain.
Florida State took a 2-0 lead after Frederik Kjettrup and Bigham won early. Cole Anderson and Luke Clanton then narrowly lost their games bringing the scores back level. In the final decisive game Brett Roberts, who was 2Up with three holes to play, succumbed to Ricky Costello on the third extra hole.
Match Play Semi-Final Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
Match Play Quarter Finals
FLORIDA (2), NORTH CAROLINA (1), FLORIDA STATE (6) and GEORGIA TECH (5) were all victorious in this morning’s Quarter Final matches.
Jack Bigham’s FLORIDA STATE (6) beat ILLINOIS (3) 3-2-0 albeit Jack lost his game to Tommy Kuhl (USA).
Kuhl was the player who received a lot of publicity earlier in May after he shot a course record 62 at Illini Country Club in U.S. Open Local Qualifying only to then disqualify himself after realising he had been repairing aerated marks on the greens throughout his round.
Match Play Quarter Finals Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
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29th May 2023
Stroke Play Round 4
Team
An impressive final round team score of -7 helped NORTH CAROLINA secure medalist honours with a 1,114 (-6) total after the completion of the four stroke play rounds at Greyhawk G.C.
The Top 8 teams shown in the table below qualified for the Team Match Play Stage which will determine this year’s champions.
FLORIDA STATE, with Jack Bigham (ENG) in their line-up, finished 6th on +6 after they matched North Carolina’s final day score of -7.
VANDERBILT, the number 1 ranked team heading into the Nationals, were the surprise casualties of the final round as they fell out of the Match Play qualifying spots with a disappointing +8 final round.
Stroke Play Team Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
Barclay Brown’s STANFORD missed out on qualification after they lost an 8th Seed Team Play-Off with ARIZONA STATE by 1-shot. After being the Californian team’s leading player throughout the Stroke Play Barclay will have been disappointed to have played his two holes in 1-over par.
8th Seed Play-Off Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
Individual
Senior Fred BIONDI (BRA / Florida) won the NCAA Division 1 Men’s National Championship after a final round of 67 lifted him past a stumbling Ross STEELMAN (USA / Georgia Tech) who could only manage a 73. Steelman ended up finishing tied 2nd with Jackson BUCHANAN (USA / Illinois) who matched Bondi’s 67.
Biondi, the first South American to win the Individual title, earned an exemption in to the 2023 U.S. Open and 2024 Masters, subject to him remaining amateur. The former, being played in a couple of weeks, won’t be a problem but the latter may be because Biondi’s win also secured 2nd place in the PGA TOUR University Final Ranking which guaranteed a number of Korn Ferry Tour starts this season as well as unlimited sponsor exemptions on the same circuit. It will be interesting to see if he is prepared to give these latter opportunities up by staying an amateur so that he can play in The Masters next April.
Fred Biondi (Photo: Gators Golf)
Here are the leading Individual results: –
Stroke Play Individual Results (Graphic: GolfStat)
Jack Bigham will be the only GB&I player who participates in the Match Play Stage on the back of his Florida State team’s performance.
Here are the final Individual results / finishing positions for all of the GB&I players: –
Jack BIGHAM (ENG / Florida State) 70-76-71-68 (+5) Tied 36th
Missed 72 Holes Stroke Play Cut
Barclay BROWN (ENG / Stanford) 68-71-67-69 (-5) Tied 4th
Missed 54 Holes Stroke Play Cut
Matty DODD-BERRY (ENG / ETSU) 76-73-70 (+9) Tied 74th
Luke O’NEILL (IRL / Kansas State) 75-72-74 (+11) Tied 94th
Calum SCOTT (SCO / Texas Tech) 76-72-74 (+12) Tied 106th
Paul CONROY (IRL / Chattanooga) 70-78-75 (+13) Tied 111th
Ben PARTRIDGE (ENG / San Francisco) 76-76-77 (+19) 146th
Archie DAVIES (WAL / ETSU) 83-76-76 (+25) 151st
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28th May 2023
Stroke Play Round 3
Team
ILLINOIS produced another under par round to maintain their lead in the Team Stroke Play Qualifying competition at Greyhawk.
PEPPERDINE moved up three places to 2nd on Day 3 after a record breaking Greyhawk one round -11 contribution to their Team score.
FLORIDA are 3rd on -1, NORTH CAROLINA (+1) 4th and GEORGIA TECH (+2) 5th.
The 54 hole cut saw the top 15 teams, and nine individuals not on one of those teams, progressing to the final stroke play round.
Of the teams with GB&I representation only STANFORD (+10) and FLORIDA STATE (+13) progressed.
TEXAS TECH (+26) lost in a play-off to OHIO STATE for the final spot on Monday morning and therefore followed SAN FRANCISCO (+33), CHATTANOOGA (+39) tied 23rd and EAST TENNESSEE STATE (+46) 29th out of the Championship.
Defending champions TEXAS missed the 54 hole cut.
Stroke Play Round 3 Team Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
Individual
Ross STEELMAN (USA / Georgia Tech) continues to deliver. A third round 68 has taken him to -9 and leaves him with a four shot lead with 18 holes to play over Neal SHIPLEY (USA / Ohio State) and Dylan MENANTE (USA / North Carolina).
After a lacklustre season by his high standards Barclay BROWN (ENG) continues to excel for Stanford in the Arizona desert. A 3-under 67 has moved him into tied 4th place on -4.
Barclay Brown’s Round 3 Scorecard (Graphic: GolfStat)
Matthew ANDERSON (CAN / San Francisco) -1 T13, Ludvig ABERG (SWE / Texas Tech) +1 T19, Matthew WATKINS (USA / New Mexico) +1 T19, Drew GOODMAN (USA / Oklahoma) +3 T28, Ian SIEBERS (USA / Duke) +4 T32, Johnny KEEFER (USA / Baylor) +4 T32 and Jase SUMMY (USA /Oklahoma) +4 T32 were the seven Individuals who qualified after 54 holes.
Mateo FERNANDEZ DE OLIVEIRA (ARG / Arkansas) and Dylan MCDERMOTT (USA / Colorado) subsequently came through a 2-from-3 Individual play-off on Monday morning to join them. Matthew COMEGYS (USA / Texas Tech) bogeyed the first hole to miss out.
The Individual champion now receives an exemption into the following year’s Masters Tournament so tomorrow’s final round will be important for all of the leading players.
Here are the Round 3 Individual scores / positions for all of the GB&I players who are competing this week: –
Barclay BROWN (ENG / Stanford) 68-71-67 (-4) Tied 4th
Jack BIGHAM (ENG / Florida State) 70-76-71 (+7) Tied 55th
Missed 54 Holes Stroke Play Cut
Matty DODD-BERRY (ENG / ETSU) 76-73-70 (+9) Tied 74th
Luke O’NEILL (IRL / Kansas State) 75-72-74 (+11) Tied 94th
Calum SCOTT (SCO / Texas Tech) 76-72-74 (+12) Tied 106th
Paul CONROY (IRL / Chattanooga) 70-78-75 (+13) Tied 111th
Ben PARTRIDGE (ENG / San Francisco) 76-76-77 (+19) 146th
Archie DAVIES (WAL / ETSU) 83-76-76 (+25) 151st
Stroke Play Round 3 Leading Individual Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
The third round scoring average was 72.26, which was a full stroke lower than Saturday’s second round mark of 73.29 and Friday’s 73.24.
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27th May 2023
Stroke Play Round 2
Team
First out ILLINOIS took advantage of their early morning tee time to move to the top of the Team leaderboard on -2. Their 273 -7 round score was the first under par one this week and moved them up eight places in the standings. It was also the second best round recorded at Greyhawk in the three years that the NCAA Men’s National Championship has been staged there. Pepperdine’s Round 4 271 -9 in 2021 being the best.
FLORIDA, who teed off five hours later when the conditions were much tougher, showed their class by delivering a -2 round score which lifted them five places into 2nd.
NORTH CAROLINA and GEORGIA TECH (+6) are tied 3rd after they recorded a +4 and +6 Round 2 score respectively.
Of the teams with GB&I representation, FLORIDA STATE (+11) are tied 7th, STANFORD (+16) are tied 13th, TEXAS TECH (+17) are 16th, SAN FRANCISCO (+19) tied 17th, CHATTANOOGA (+34) 27th and EAST TENNESSEE STATE (+40) 29th.
After 54 holes the first cut takes place with only the top 15 teams, and nine individuals not on one of those teams, progressing to the final stroke play round. After 72 holes only the top 8 teams qualify for the Championship match play stage.
At the moment there are 15 teams on +16 or better so all of the teams that matter to us will be under pressure to deliver a low scoring day tomorrow.
Stroke Play Round 2 Team Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
Individual
Ross STEELMAN (USA / Georgia Tech) produced a second under par round of 69 to move on to -7 and extend his lead in the Individual competition to 3-shots.
Two Europeans, Daniel DA COSTA RODRIGUES (POR / Texas A&M) and Adrien DUMONT DE CHASSART (BEL / Illinois), are tied 2nd on -4 with Brazil’s Fred BIONDI (Florida) -3 4th.
The Individual champion now receives an exemption into the following year’s Masters Tournament so I am sure the pressure will start to build on these leading players.
Stating on the 10th Barclay BROWN (ENG) posted a rollercoaster 71 in Round 2 to remain in the Individual top 10.
Barclay Brown’s Round 2 Scorecard (Graphic: GolfStat)
Here are the Round 2 Individual scores / positions for all of the GB&I players who are competing this week: –
Barclay BROWN (ENG / Stanford) 68-71 (-1) Tied 8th
Jack BIGHAM (ENG / Florida State) 70-76 (+6) Tied 67th
Luke O’NEILL (IRL / Kansas State) 75-72 (+7) Tied 84th
Calum SCOTT (SCO / Texas Tech) 76-72 (+8) Tied 96th
Paul CONROY (IRL / Chattanooga) 70-78 (+8) Tied 96th
Matty DODD-BERRY (ENG / ETSU) 76-73 (+9) Tied 108th
Ben PARTRIDGE (ENG / San Francisco) 76-76 (+12) Tied 127th
Archie DAVIES (WAL / ETSU) 83-76 (+19) Tied 154th
Stroke Play Round 2 Leading Individual Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
After 36 holes only 12 golfers in the 156-player field are under par. The average Round 2 score was 73.29, slightly higher than Friday’s average of 73.24.
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26th May 2023
Stroke Play Round 1
Team
ACC and NCAA Salem Regional champions GEORGIA TECH (Ev) lead the Team standings after the opening 18 holes by 1-shot from PEPPERDINE and ARKANSAS.
Scoring conditions were tough on Friday with the course playing firm and fast. As per normal the afternoon wave had it harder with the course drying out and temperatures rising well into the 90’s.
TEXAS TECH (+2 Tied 4th), FLORIDA STATE (+4 8th) and SAN FRANCISCO (+5 Tied 9th), all teams with GB&I representation, are currently in the Top 15 – the 54 hole stroke play cut mark.
TEXAS (+15 27th) made a disappointing start to their title defence, albeit with four new players, including three freshman, in their line up this year’s trip to Greyhawk was always likely to be a challenge.
Stroke Play Round 1 Team Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
Individual
Ross STEELMAN (USA / Georgia Tech) leads the Individual standings at the the end of Round 1 after the senior used his course knowledge well to fire a bogey free 64 (-6).
Barclay BROWN (ENG) made the best start from a GB&I perspective. The Stanford senior posted a 68 (-2) to finish the day tied 6th.
Here are the Round 1 Individual scores / positions for all of the GB&I players who are competing this week: –
Barclay BROWN (ENG / Stanford) 68 (-2) Tied 6th
Paul CONROY (IRL / Chattanooga) 70 (Ev) Tied 19th
Jack BIGHAM (ENG / Florida State) 70 (Ev) Tied 19th
Luke O’NEILL (IRL / Kansas State) 75 (+5) Tied 104th
Calum SCOTT (SCO / Texas Tech) 76 (+6) Tied 115th
Ben PARTRIDGE (ENG / San Francisco) 76 (+6) Tied 115th
Matty DODD-BERRY (ENG / ETSU) 76 (+6) Tied 115th
Archie DAVIES (WAL / ETSU) 83 (+13) Tied 156th
Stroke Play Round 1 Leading Individual Scores (Graphic: GolfStat)
18 players are under par after the opening round which saw an average score of 73.24 from the 156-player field.
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23rd May 2023
The 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s National Championship starts on Friday 26th May at Greyhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Greyhawk has staged the National Championships in each of the last two years and has in the last week hosted the 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s event. The men’s Raptor Course is 7,289 yards long and plays to a par of 70. With a firm and fast set up most players struggle to break par over the 72 holes.
Greyhawk Golf Club
30 5-man teams and 6 individuals not on those teams qualified to play through six Regional events played on 15th-17th May. To learn more about these Regionals please read my earlier article – NCAA Division I Men’s Regionals – 2023 Preview & Results.
At the National Championship 54 holes of stroke play will be played on 26th-28th May. A cut will then take place which will see the top 15 teams and nine individuals not on those teams play a final 18 holes on 29th May. After 72 holes an Individual champion is crowned with the leading 8 teams progressing to a match play stage. Seeded match play will then take place on 30th-31st May and will be used determine the Team national champions.
Team scores in the stroke play stage are based on a best four from five players cumulative total.
There are eight GB&I players competing this year; they are Jack BIGHAM (ENG / Florida State), Barclay BROWN (ENG / Stanford), Paul CONROY (IRL / Chattanooga), Archie DAVIES (East Tennessee State), Matthew DODD-BERRY (ENG / East Tennessee State), Luke O’NEILL (IRL / Kansas State), Ben PARTRIDGE (ENG / San Francisco) and Calum SCOTT (SCO / Texas Tech).
Here is a list of the 30 competing teams and 6 individuals, along with their current Golfweek / Sagarin national ranking and earlier Regional site results in brackets.
The 8 players from Great Britain & Ireland are shown in blue below.
TEAMS
Alabama 16 (Norman Oklahoma, 1st)
Arizona State 5 (Las Vegas Nevada, 1st)
Arkansas 34 (Salem South Carolina, 2nd)
Auburn 10 (Auburn Alabama, 1st)
Baylor 32 (Morgan Hill California, 4th)
Brigham Young (BYU) 38 (Morgan Hill California, 2nd)*
Chattanooga 39 (Auburn Alabama, 3rd) – PAUL CONROY (IRL) #1
Colorado 56 (Norman Oklahoma, 3rd)
Colorado State 28 (Auburn Alabama, 5th)
Duke 25 (Norman Oklahoma, 5th)
East Tennessee State 29 (Las Vegas Nevada, 5th) – ARCHIE DAVIES (WAL) #3, MATTHEW DODD-BERRY (ENG) #4
Florida 6 (Bath Michigan, 4th)
Florida State 7 (Morgan Hill California, 3rd) – JACK BIGHAM (ENG) #4
Georgia 22 (Bath Michigan, 1st)
Georgia Tech 4 (Salem South Carolina, 1st)
Illinois 2 (Bath Michigan, 2nd)
Mississippi State 18 (Morgan Hill California, 1st)
New Mexico 42 (Salem South Carolina, 4th)
North Carolina 3 (Salem South Carolina, 3rd)
Ohio State University 30 (Auburn Alabama, 4th)
Oklahoma 8 (Norman Oklahoma, 2nd)
Oregon 19 (Bath Michigan, 3rd)
Pepperdine 12 (Morgan Hill California, 5th)
San Francisco 47 (Las Vegas Nevada, 4th) – BEN PARTRIDGE (ENG) #2
Stanford 11 (Las Vegas Nevada, 2nd) – BARCLAY BROWN (ENG) #3
Texas 14 (Bath Michigan, 5th)
Texas A&M 13 (Salem South Carolina, 5th)
Texas Tech 9 (Norman Oklahoma, 4th) – CALUM SCOTT (SCO) #2
Vanderbilt 1 (Auburn Alabama, 2nd)
Virginia 17 (Las Vegas Nevada, 3rd)
INDIVIDUALS
Jonas Baumgartner – Oklahoma State (Las Vegas Nevada, T5)
Will King – Kansas (Norman Oklahoma, T4)
Sam Lape – Furman (Salem South Carolina, T2)
Riley Lewis – Layola Marymount (Morgan Hill California, T2)
LUKE O’NEILL (IRL) – Kansas State (Bath Michigan, T2)
Drew Salyers – Indiana (Auburn Alabama, T4)
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*BYU will play their Sunday 3rd round on Thursday 25th (the practice day) due to their school’s long-established religious policies.
PGA TOUR University Ranking
The stroke play stage of the NCAA Division I Men’s National Championship is the final tournament for the 2023 PGA Tour University ranking.
The PGA TOUR University ranks Senior players based on performances during the last two years of their collegiate careers.
The No. 1 player in the final PGA TOUR University Ranking will earn PGA TOUR membership for the remainder of this season and all of next and players 1-5 (fully exempt) and 6-10 (conditional) earn Korn Ferry Tour membership. Additionally, players finishing 6th through 20th will earn fully exempt status on PGA TOUR Canada.
Ludvig ABERG (SWE / Texas Tech) enjoys a near unassailable lead in the ranking and in all likelihood will next week graduate to the PGA TOUR making his debut iat the RBC Canadian Open.
The current PGA TOUR University Ranking is shown below and was updated on the back of the 24th May 2023 WAGR release.
The Current PGA TOUR University Ranking (Graphic: PGA Tour)
Mark POWER (IRE / Wake Forest) 46th and Will HOPKINS (ENG / Kansas State) 77th are the highest ranked GB&I players in this ranking. Neither of whom have qualified to play in the National Championships.
2022 Results
TEXAS beat ARIZONA STATE 3-2 at the Greyhawk Golf Club in Arizona to win the 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s National title.
Texas University (Photo: NCAA)
Texas finished fourth in the stroke play qualifying and beat Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt in the earlier match play rounds.
The Texas team consisted of Cole HAMMER, Parker COODY, Pierceson COODY, Mason NOME and Travis VICK.
Arizona State finished seventh in the stroke play qualifying and took out Oklahoma and Pepperdine in match play.
TEXAS TECH, with Calum SCOTT and Sandy SCOTT in their line up, lost to Vanderbilt in the Quarter-Finals.
Gordon SARGENT of Vanderbilt won the Individual title at the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship. He is the ninth freshman to accomplish this feat and the first since Jamie Lovemark in 2007. He beat Eugenio LOPEZ-CHACARRA (Oklahoma State), Parker COODY (Texas) and Ryan BURNETT (North Carolina) with a birdie three on the opening play-off hole after all four of them had finished their 72 holes on 280 (Ev).
Not that he knew it at the time but Sargents’s victory would earn him a special invitation to The 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National, the first amateur to receive one from the club since Aaron Baddeley in 2000.
Gordon Sargent (Photo: NCAA)
A summary of the GB&I player performances is provided below: –
GB&I Round 4 Individual Results
Sandy Scott 75-71-72-74 (+12) T43
Callum Bruce 71-70-78-74 (+13) T47
Dan Bradbury 73-75-71-78 (+17) T61
Calum Scott DNP-75-70-70
Missed 54 Holes Stroke Play Cut
Barclay Brown 76-72-75 (+13)
Archie Davies 75-76-78 (+19)
Mark Power 78-73-81 (+22)
Ben Carberry 75-77-82 (+24)
Alex Fitzpatrick DNP-65-71
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Luke O’Neill (Photo: Kansas State Men’s Golf Team)
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