Men's Golf | 5/1/2017 4:03:00 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. – Fresh off a second-place finish at the Sun Belt Championship, the Georgia Southern men's golf team will learn the field and destination of its next tournament Thursday, May 4, and will hold a selection show watch party at the Bennett-Ramsey Golf Center.
With a Golfstat ranking of 62, the Eagles are safely inside the number to make the 81-team field. Sophomore
Steven Fisk earned an automatic bid by winning the conference's individual medalist honors in a playoff.
The 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships selections announcement will take place this Thursday at 12 p.m. on Golf Channel and will stream live on the Golf Channel website. Fans are invited to watch the selection show with members of the team and coaching staff. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Georgia Southern will be selected to compete in the six NCAA Men's Regional Championship sites, May 15-17 (13 teams and 10 individuals at three regionals and 14 teams and five individuals at three regionals). Thirty teams and six individuals (the low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional) will advance from regional sites to the national championships to be played May 26-31 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill.
The six regional sites include The Grove, College Grove, Tennessee, hosted by Middle Tennessee State University; Kampen Course, West Lafayette, Indiana, hosted by Purdue University; Stanford Golf Course, Stanford, California, hosted by Stanford University; University of Texas Golf Club, Austin, Texas, hosted by University of Texas at Austin; University Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hosted by LSU and Aldarra Golf Club, Sammamish, Washington, hosted by University of Washington.
Fisk became the ninth Eagle to win a conference individual title and the second in the Eagles' three-year stint in the Sun Belt. Kim Koivu outdueled teammate Scott Wolfes to win in 2015, the Eagles' first season in the league, and similarly, Fisk had to outlast teammate
Jake Storey and two others in a 4-way playoff this year.
Georgia Southern has finished in the top-6 in all five tournaments this spring, placing in the top-4 in each of the last four events. The Eagles look to make their 24th appearance in the NCAA Championships, the second under head coach
Carter Collins and the seventh in Collins' 11 seasons on of the coaching staff.
Advancing teams and individuals from the six regional sites compete in an individual stroke-play format for 54 holes (May 26-28). The top 40 individuals and ties will compete in the fourth and final stroke-play round to determine the individual national champion May 29, and on May 30 (quarterfinals and semi-finals) and May 31 (finals), the low eight teams from the 54-hole qualifying will compete in match-play competition to determine the team national champion.
This year's Men's Golf Championships will be broadcast for the fourth consecutive year by Golf Channel with more than 100 news and tournament hours planned again for the men's and women's golf championships.
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