DeLAND, Fla. - The Stetson University men's golf made history on Wednesday afternoon as it was announced the team will compete in the NCAA Regional for the first time as a program.
The three-day event will consist of 54 holes (18 each day) that starts on Monday, May 13 at Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex at the Kampen-Cosler Course hosted by Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. At the conclusion of play, the top five teams as well as the low individual finisher not on an advancing team will advance to the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. from May 24-29. It will be the first of three years the finals are taking play at Omni La Costa, which will be hosted by the University of Texas.
A total of 81 teams and 45 individuals (not on a competing team) will play across six regional hosts - LSU, North Carolina, Purdue, San Diego, Stanford and Texas. Three regional sites will have 13 teams and 10 individuals and three will have 14 teams and five individuals. Of the thirteen teams announced to the West Lafayette Regional, Stetson earned the 10th seed.
The Hatters are coming off a season that saw Head Coach
Danny Forshey steer them to three first place finishes and three additional top-3 finishes. They are led by
Dominic Clemons, a unanimous First Team All-ASUN selection in his first season with the Hatters. The sophomore from Cambridge, England, placed inside the top-3 seven times including a first place finish at the Daytona Beach Intercollegiate and runner-up in the final regular season tournament, the Tiger Intercollegiate. In said tournament, Clemons tied an all-time single round low of 64, previously set by
Truman Keppy in the team's first place finish at the USF Invitational in the fall semester. In addition to setting a new program record for the lowest scoring average of 70.4, surpassing
Matt Gauntlett's previous record of 70.5, Clemons earned him three ASUN Golfer of the Week awards.
West Lafayette Regional Teams (seed number)
No. 1 - Vanderbilt
No. 2 - Arizona
No. 3 - Florida
No. 4 - New Mexico
No. 5 - Purdue
No. 6 - San Diego State
No. 7 - Mississippi State
No. 8 - Indiana
No. 9 - College of Charleston
No. 10 - Stetson
No. 11 - Colorado State
No. 12 - Southern Illinois
No. 13 - Tennessee Tech
West Lafayette Individuals (seed number)
No. 1 – Caleb VanArragon, Valparaiso
No. 2 – Hunter Thomson, Michigan
No. 3 – Cameron Huss, Wisconsin
No. 4 – Barend Botha, Toledo
No. 5 – Valentin Peugnet, Illinois State
No. 6 – Owen Stamper, Middle Tennessee State
No. 7 – Alex McCulla, Illinois State
No. 9 – Luke Fuller, Western Kentucky
No. 10 – Ben Ortwein, Rider
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