WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The University of New Mexico men’s golf team is headed out to the Kampen Course in West Lafayette, Indiana, to compete in the NCAA Regional.
The Lobos are set to tee off Monday between 6:55 and 7:39 a.m. MT. The team is looking for a repeat performance of their 2013 campaign that saw the squad crowned champions of the NCAA Auburn Regional en route to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championship in Alpharetta, Georgia.
This year the team comes in ranked 44th in the latest Golfstat rankings and No. 42 in the most recent GolfWeek standings.
Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted May 15-17. Thirteen teams and ten individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
The low five teams and the low individual not on one those teams from each of the six regionals will advance to the finals.
The other five regional sites will be at University Club in Baton Rouge, La., The Grove in College Grove, Tenn., Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif., University of Texas Golf Club in Austin, Texas and Aldabra Golf Club in Sammamish, Wash.
The NCAA Championship finals for team and medalist titles will be decided May 26-31 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Northern Illinois University is the host institution for the 2017 championships.
The Kampen Course, a Pete Dye design, is an 18-hole, links-style, par-72 championship golf course featuring large bent-grass greens, fairways and tees. The layout presents a challenge for golfers of all abilities with vast sand bunkers, native grasslands, ponds and a natural bog. Kampen offers five sets of tees with the championship tees playing over 7,400 yards and the forward tees playing at 5,300 yards.
Kampen is rated one of the top collegiate courses in the nation and has been awarded 4.5 stars on Golf Digest’s “Places to Play.” Kampen receives high marks as it is ranked as one of the most difficult golf courses in Indiana. The course has also played host to a number of prestigious collegiate and public tournaments such as the 2000 Men’s Big Ten Championship, the 2003 Women’s NCAA Championship, the 2004 Indiana Open, the 2005 Women’s Western Amateur and the 2008 Men’s NCAA Championship.
Live scoring will be provided here.
West Lafayette Teams:
- Florida
- Illinois (Big Ten)
- UNLV (Mountain West)
- Auburn
- South Carolina
- Colorado
- Purdue
- New Mexico
- Augusta (Mid-Eastern)
- Saint Mary’s
- Campbell (Big South)
- Richmond (Atlantic 10)
- Cleveland State (Horizon)
West Lafayette Individuals:
- Peter Kim, U.S. Military Academy
- Mark Lawrence Jr., Virginia Tech
- Austin Squires, Cincinnati
- Keegan de Lange, Louisville
- Lloyd Jefferson Go, Seton Hall
- David Kocher, Maryland
- Sarit Suwannarut, Virginia Tech
- Patrick Flavin, Miami (Ohio)
- Peyton White, Ohio
- Trent Wallace, Illinois State