Vulcans mens golf headed to NCAA regionals

Spencer Honda/ UH-Hilo Sports Information UHH men's golfers include, from left, Andrew Otani, Keith Ng and Dustin Franko.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – The NCAA has announced the field of 80 teams and 32 individual competitors that have been selected to participate in regional competition of the 2023 NCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championships.

Regional play will be conducted May 11-13.

The top three teams and the top two student-athletes (not with a team) from each regional will earn automatic bids in the finals, May 22-26 at Avalon Lakes in Warren, Ohio.

The remaining eight team berths will be allocated based on the regions represented in the prior year’s head-to-head medal play portion of the championships, with the maximum number of teams from a given region capped at seven. The finals will be hosted by the Mountain East Conference and Avalon Lakes at The Grand Resort.

At the 2022 championships, Lee defeated Oklahoma Christian, 4-1, in the head-to-head medal play final to claim its first men’s golf team title in school history. Missouri-St. Louis senior Joel Sylven finished with a 54-hole total of two-under par 214 to claim individual medalist honors — the first by an individual in the school’s history. The championships were hosted at TPC Michigan in Dearborn, Michigan.