INDIANAPOLIS — BYU men’s golf was selected by the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Committee to compete in the Stockton Regional of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships, May 15-18.
“The goal is to play at the NCAA Championship every year, so we are really excited about the opportunity to make that happen,” said BYU head coach Bruce Brockbank. “We’re at a great regional that will be really competitive and we play a lot of our college golf on the west coast, so its a great opportunity to go play well on a course that we are familiar with.”
At the regional, the Cougars will take on Arizona State, Washington, Stanford, LSU , Oregon, Nevada, Liberty, UAB, Houston, UC Davis, Denver, Abilene Christian and Weber State for the right to play for the national championship.
There were 81 teams and 45 individual participants selected on Wednesday to compete in the six regionals around the country. The top five teams and top individual (not on an advancing team) will move from the regional to Scottsdale, Arizona, to compete for the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship on May 27-June 1 at Grahawk Golf Club.
After narrowly missing out on a regional invitation last year, the Cougars put together a resume in 2021-22 that earned them a regional bid for the seven time in the last eight NCAA Regionals. BYU finished in the top-5 in 7-of-12 events this season while recording two team victories.
The two BYU wins bookend the 2021-22 regular-season campaign with a 19-shot victory at the William H. Tucker Invitational to start the season and a 7-shot victory at the PING Cougar Classic two weeks ago.
“I’m excited for our guys to get a chance to play in the NCAA tournament as Carson is the only player on our current squad that has had that opportunity,” said BYU director of golf Todd Miller. “We've played in the University of the Pacific's tournament nine out of the last ten years and have found success in Stockton. We’ll need to play great golf to move on, but I know our guys are capable of doing that.”
The Stockton Regional will be played at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton, California, and will be hosted by the University of the Pacific. The 7,132-yard championship course was given a 4.5 star rating in Golf Digest’s “places to play" and was designed by Andy Raugust in 1999.
The Cougars finished runner-up at the WCC Championship last week, finishing five shots back of defending national champion Pepperdine.