NCAA_Division_I_Men's_Golf_Championships

NCAA Division I men's golf championship

NCAA Division I men's golf championship

American collegiate golf competition

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

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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 regional 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.

Formerly, it was a stroke play team competition, but starting in 2009, the competition was changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top eight teams after 54 holes of stroke play being seeded and concluding with an eight-team match play playoff. An award is also given 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.

As of 2024, the individual champion receives an invitation to the following year's Masters Tournament, provided that he remains an amateur at the time of the Masters.

Results

Note: The NCAA was founded in 1906. The first championship sponsored by the NCAA was in 1939.[1][2]

Pre-NCAA era, match play (1897–1938)

The NCAA started sponsoring the golf championship in 1939; the previous 41 championships were conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association.[2]

  • Team scores, individual scores, and course pars are not kept in official NCAA records before 1939.
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NCAA era, match play (1939–1964)

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NCAA era, stroke play (1965–2008)

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

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  • § Won via a playoff.

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 Cañizares of Spain won in 2003, followed by James Lepp (2005) and Matt Hill (2009), both from Canada, Thomas Pieters of Belgium in 2012, and Fred Biondi of Brazil in 2023.

Team titles

The Intercollegiate Golf Association (later named the National Intercollegiate Golf Association) sponsored the annual tournament and awarded titles from 1897 through 1938. In 1939, the NCAA assumed tournament sponsorship and began awarding championship titles.[1][2]

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

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Multiple winners

Individual champion

See also: NCAA Division I Men's Golf Tournament all-time individual records

These men have won more than one individual championship:

Individual champion's school

These schools have produced more than one individual champion:

Winners of both U.S. Amateur and collegiate titles

These 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.

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See also

References

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    Kieran, John (June 24, 1940). "The Collegiate Touch on the Links" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2015. The intercollegiate championship is rising in importance in golf with each passing year. ... The N.C.A.A. has taken over the administration of the college fray and their delegate in charge on the field is none other than Chick Evans, the old champion and one of the greatest shot-makers the game ever knew, amateur or professional.
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    Laing, Jack (June 27, 1933). "Yale team takes impressive lead in college golf tourney. Kowal, Banks, Nittinger, Noyes notch 73 apiece to tie for singles lead" (PDF). Buffalo Courier-Express. p. 15. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
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