Carlsbad, California – Georgia Tech, a No. 13 seed who finished fourth in last week's NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, will play in the 33-school NCAA Division I men's championship final.rd When the Yellow Jackets tee off Friday morning at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa, they will be looking to win the first national championship in program history.
head coach bruce hepler's 29th The Tech team returns three starters from the team that finished runner-up at the 2023 championship in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Yellow Jackets have advanced to match play five times since the NCAA added match play to the format to determine a champion in 2009, and are looking to return for a second straight year.
Tech finished third at the ACC Championships last month and will compete in the NCAA Championships after winning the Chapel Hill Regional. The Yellow Jackets have the ACC Player of the Year and the No. 5 player in the nation as a senior. Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa)and two other players with NCAA championship experience as seniors. Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia) And second grade Hiroshi Tai (Singapore).
Tech competition will tee off at 4:50 p.m. ET on Friday and 11:30 a.m. (1st hole) on Saturday.st Hall will face 14th-seeded East Tennessee State, which finished second in the Chapel Hill (North Carolina) Regional, and 15th-seeded University of California, which finished second in the Rancho Santa Fe (Calif.) Regional.
Tee times and pairings for the remaining stroke play rounds will be determined by team placement on the leaderboard. Thirty teams will play 54 holes from Friday through Sunday, with the final round of stroke play on Monday whittling the field down to 15 teams, after which an individual champion will be crowned. The top eight teams at the end of 72 holes will advance to a match play bracket to determine the team champion on Wednesday.
Auburn, the nation's top-ranked team and winner of the Baton Rouge (La.) Regional Tournament last week, is the top seed for the NCAA Championships, followed by Vanderbilt (West Lafayette, Ind. Regional Champion) and North Carolina State. Continue. (3rd place in Chapel Hill), Tennessee (runner-up in Austin, Texas), Florida State (runner-up in Stanford, California), Texas State (runner-up in Austin), Virginia (runner-up in Baton Rouge), Texas Tech University (3rd place at Baton Rouge), Oklahoma State (1st place at Rancho Santa Fe), Arizona State (4th place at West Lafayette), Illinois State (1st place at Stanford University) and Florida State (3rd place at West Lafayette).
Tech placed fourth at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional and advanced to the finals. (Photo by Andy Mead)
How did technology get here?
Tech was ranked 10th in the Scoreboard NCAA rankings at the start of the spring season but is currently ranked 18th after a third-place finish at last month's Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in Charlotte, N.C., and a fourth-place finish at last week's NCAA Chapel Hill Regional. Tech also has impressive performances, including a runner-up finish at the Watersound Invitational, fourth-place finishes at the RE Lamkin Invitational, Ringer Longer Invitational and Calusa Cup, fifth place at The Goodwin and sixth place at the Amer Ali Intercollegiate.
Three of Tech's starting five from last year's NCAA Championship return for this tournament, including the ACC Player of the Year. Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa)5th grade Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia) and 2nd grade Hiroshi Tai (Singapore)Forrester is the only Yellow Jacket to have played in all 12 stroke play events this year. Lamprecht missed the Calusa Cup to play in the Masters, and Tye did not play in the fall opener at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. bruce heplerHe led Tech to 19 NCAA championship appearances during his 29 years at the Flats and started as a freshman. Cale Fontenot (Lafayette, Louisiana) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, California) He has won seven of the Jackets' eight spring tournaments.
Forester and Ty led the Yellow Jackets at last week's NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, each finishing tied for eighth at 8-under 202, while Lamprecht tied for 21st.st 2 under 208.
Lamprecht is a two-time 2023-24 champion who is ranked fifth in the Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings, No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and No. 2 in the PGA Tour Collegiate Rankings. The senior is a Byron Nelson Award winner and a finalist for both the Ben Hogan and Fred Haskins Awards as collegiate player of the year. He tied for third at last month's ACC Championship.
Forester has four top-10 finishes this year, including a tie for eighth at the ACC Championship, with three ties and Fontenot one.
Tech earns berth at NCAA Championships
Tech's NCAA Championship History
Georgia Tech is the only team to make the 54-hole cut in all three NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and advanced to match play last year, where the Yellow Jackets beat Pepperdine and North Carolina but lost to Florida in the finals. In stroke play, Tech finished 15th.Number 2021, 12th Won first place in stroke play competition in 2022 and second place in 2023.
Lamprecht finishes in 44th placeth32and And 40Number In three trips around Greyhawk, Forester placed 75th.th15th and 55NumberTy is the only Yellow Jacket with NCAA championship experience, a record 58 times.Number As a freshman last year.
Tech has reached the NCAA Championship Finals 32 times since 1985 (33 in program history), ahead of Oklahoma State (37), Arizona State (35), University of Florida (35), and Texas. This is the fifth highest record for the same period after universities (35).
Since the introduction of the stroke play/match play format in 2009, the Yellow Jackets have qualified for match play five times, finishing third in stroke play in 2010, second in 2011 and second in 2013. , 5th place in 2014, and tied for 5th place in 2014. 2023.
Tech has finished runner-up in the NCAA Championship five times (1993, 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2023 before match play). Only Oklahoma State University (18) and the University of Texas (6) have more runner-up finishes than Tech.
Tournament Information
The top five teams and one other individual from each of the six regional venues (a total of 30 teams and six individuals, totaling 156 competitors) will advance to the finals, which will be held May 24-29 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. The championships are hosted by the University of Texas at Austin.
The finals will consist of three days of stroke play (54 holes) from Friday, May 24 through Sunday, May 26, after which the top 15 teams and nine individuals not included in the advancing teams will be determined, followed by 18 holes of stroke play on the final day on Monday, May 27 to determine the top eight teams that advance to match play and the 72-hole individual champions. The team national champions will be determined in a match play format consisting of quarterfinals and semifinals on Tuesday, May 28, and the final on Wednesday, May 29.
Golf Channel will carry live coverage of the NCAA Championship from Monday's final round of stroke play through all rounds of match play.
tournament schedule
- May 24 – Stroke Play Round 1, 9:10 a.m. EDT
- May 25 – Second round of stroke play, 9:10 a.m. EDT
- May 26 – Stroke Play Round 3, 9:10 a.m. EDT
- May 27 – Stroke Play Round 4, 10 a.m. EDT
- May 28 – Match Play Quarterfinals, 9:20 a.m. EDT
- May 28 – Match Play Semifinals, 3:45pm ET
- May 29 – Championship Match, 4:35 PM EDT
Alexander Tharp Fund
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About Georgia Tech Golf
Georgia Tech's golf team now has 29 members.th In his one year under coach Bruce Heppler, the team won 72 tournaments. Heppler was the 10thNumber-Longest serving head coach in Division I men's golf. His yellow jacket is the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, which he has won 19 times, the NCAA Championships he has appeared in 33 times, and the National Runner-up he has played five times. Connect with Georgia Tech Golf on social media by liking his Facebook page or following him below Twitter (@GTGolf) and Instagram. For more information on Tech Golf, visit Ramblinwreck.com
