Lobos Begin 2025 NCAA Championships Friday at La Costa
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico travels to California this week for the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship. The event will begin Friday at the 7,538-yard, par-72 North Course of the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad.
The Lobos advanced to the NCAA Championship by finishing third at last week’s Tallahassee Regional in Florida. The 30-team field, the five top finishers at each of the six regionals, will play the first three rounds of the event Friday-Sunday. The top 15 teams will make the cut and play the final round of stroke play on Monday. The top eight teams from stroke play will advance to match play, which will crown the national champion. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be Tuesday and the final on Wednesday. Golf Channel will televise the action live for the final three days (Monday-Wednesday) and there will be live scoring throughout the week on Scoreboard.
UNM will tee off beginning at 7:47 am PT on Friday at La Costa and will tee off on Saturday beginning at 1:07 pm PT. Sunday’s tee times will be determined by the scores over the first 36 holes.
The Lobos are making their 45th NCAA Championship appearance, as they return to the event for the third straight year. New Mexico is one of 12 schools, and the only non-power conference school, to advance to the NCAA Championship each of the past three years.
New Mexico has 11 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championship, highlighted by a T-4th finish in 1973. Under the current format, New Mexico has made match play once at the NCAA Championship, finishing 6th in stroke play in 2013 before falling to eventual champion Alabama in the match play quarterfinals. Tommy Armour III owns the best NCAA individual finish by a Lobo, earning a T-5th mark at the 1981 Championship at Stanford.
New Mexico’s lineup for the event is Mesa Falleur, Carson Herron, Wyatt Provence, Oliver Cage and Clark Sonnenberg. Alvaro Portillo is the alternate in the lineup.
The Lobos enter the NCAA Championship ranked No. 42 nationally by Clippd. New Mexico has posted seven top-five finishes in 13 events this season, including five of the last six events.