Duke earns NCAA bid, selected to Norman Regional

DURHAM The Duke men’s golf team has been selected to the 2023 NCAA Championships Norman Regional for the 31st overall and eighth consecutive NCAA Regional appearance in program history. The head coach Jamie Green has now led the Blue Devils to 13 NCAA Regionals in 14 possible seasons.

Duke is the sixth seed in the Norman Regional and is joined in the field by top-seeded Texas Tech as well as Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, LSU, North Florida, Colorado, Kansas, UNCW, Louisiana, Princeton and Arkansas at Pine. Bluff.

The Norman Regional will be held at Jimmie Austin Golf Club, the host school’s home course in Norman, Okla., and is one of six 54-hole regional tournaments May 15-17. The course is par 72 and is 7,452 yards from the championship course.

The three regional sites consist of 13 teams and 10 non-team members, while the other three regional sites have 14 teams and five non-member teams. At each regional, the bottom five teams and the bottom individual not on those teams will advance to compete in the NCAA Championships from the 26th to the 31st. May. The finals will be held at Grayhawk Golf Club (Raptor Course) in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the third year in a row.

Duke enters the NCAA Championship game after a strong showing in the ACC Championship, as the Blue Devils advanced to the series for the first time since the league switched to a combined format in 2021. Read the sample secured a tie for third in the stroke play leaderboard with a birdie-eagle that helped earn the Blue Devils a spot in the match play semifinals. Duke fell to Georgia Tech in the semifinals, 3-1-1 Kelly Chinn won his match 2&1 as a freshman Ethan Evans tied after 18 holes.

Duke has finished third or better in three of its last five regionals and four of its last seven, including a third-place finish in 2015 at the Lubbock Regional, a tie for second at the 2017 Baton Rouge Regional, a runner-up finish. place at the Raleigh Regional in 2018 when Duke shot 22 under for a program record at the NCAA Regional — and second at the Athens Regional in 2019. The 2020 NCAA Championships were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. .

Sample leads Duke with a 71.16 strikeout rate and is averaging -0.41 in 11 events this season. The sophomore has five top-five finishes, the most on the team. Freshman William Love posted the first 200-under 54-hole score in program history earlier this season, finishing with a 17-under 199 at Dorado Beach Collegiate in late February.

2023 NCAA Men’s Golf Regional Sites

Auburn University Club Auburn, Alabama
Rocks at Keowee Falls in Salem, South Carolina
Eagle Eye Golf Club East Lansing, Michigan
Bear’s Best Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada
Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club Norman, Oklahoma
Institute Golf Club Morgan Hill, California
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