NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships

NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship

Tournament information
Location	United States
Established	1939
Course(s)	2015: The Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Florida
Par	2015: 72
Length	2015: 7,483 yards (6,842 m)
Format	72-hole stroke play 8-team match play
Month played	May/June
Current champion
Team: LSU Individual: Bryson DeChambeau, SMU
2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship

The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of stroke play being seeded and concluding with an 8-team match play playoff. There is also an award for the lowest scoring individual competitor. Many individual winners have gone on to have successful careers on the PGA Tour, including 1961 champion Jack Nicklaus, 1967 champion Hale Irwin, 1996 champion Tiger Woods, and three-time champions Ben Crenshaw and Phil Mickelson.

Results

Note: The NCAA was founded in 1906. The first championship sponsored by the NCAA was in 1939.^[1][2]

Pre-NCAA era, match play (1897–1938)

• Team scores, individual scores, and course pars are not kept in official NCAA records before 1939.

NCAA era, match play (1939–1964)

NCAA era, stroke play (1965–2008)

NCAA era, stroke and match play (2009–present)

• § Won via a playoff.

Non-American winners

Americans had captured all of the titles from the tournament's inception, until James McLean of Australia won in 1998. Luke Donald of England won in 1999. Alejandro Cañizares of Spain won in 2003, followed by James Lepp (2005) and Matt Hill (2009), both from Canada, and Thomas Pieters of Belgium in 2012.

Team titles

The Intercollegiate Golf Association (later named the National Intercollegiate Golf Association (NIGA)) sponsored the annual tournament and awarded titles from 1897 through 1938. In 1939, the NCAA assumed tournament sponsorship and began awarding championship titles.^[1][2]

Schools are listed by their current names, which do not necessarily match those used when schools won their titles.

Multiple winners

Individual champion

The following men have won more than one individual championship:

• 3: Ben Crenshaw, Phil Mickelson
• 2: Dick Crawford, Dexter Cummings, George Dunlap, Fred Lamprecht, Scott Simpson

Individual champion's school

The following schools have produced more than one individual champion:

• 13 champions: Yale
• 8 champions: Harvard, Houston, Oklahoma State
• 7 champions: Princeton
• 6 champions: Arizona State, Texas
• 5 champions: Ohio State
• 4 champions: Southern California
• 3 champions: Georgia Tech, LSU, Michigan, Stanford, Tulane, Wake Forest
• 2 champions: Florida, Georgetown, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Purdue, San Jose State, UNLV

Winners of both U.S. Amateur and collegiate titles

The following men have won both the collegiate individual championship and the U.S. Amateur. Only Jack Nicklaus (1961), Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996), Ryan Moore (2004), and Bryson DeChambeau (2015) and have managed the feat in the same year.

See also

• Palmer Cup

References

1. 1 2 "Division I Men's Golf" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2013. 
2. 1 2 Kieran, John (June 24, 1940). "The Collegiate Touch on the Links". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2015. The intercollegiate championship is rising in importance in golf with each passing year. ... The N.C.A.A. has taken over the administration of the college fray and their delegate in charge on the field is none other than Chick Evans, the old champion and one of the greatest shot-makers the game ever knew, amateur or professional. 
3. ↑ "Golf Team Defeated". The Crimson. May 6, 1898. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
4. ↑ "Double Golf Victory. Yale and Columbia Defeated.--Finals Against Princeton Today.". The Crimson. October 22, 1902. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
5. ↑ Wheelwright, William Bond; Goodridge, Arthur Minot, eds. (1899). Harvard Teams 1898-1899. Cambridge, Massachusetts. p. 29. 
6. ↑ "Intercollegiate Golf. Harvard Defeats Columbia and Princeton Defeats Yale.". The Crimson. October 25, 1899. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
7. ↑ "Yale wins third golf crown in row; Michigan 2d". Chicago Tribune. June 28, 1933. p. 24. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
8. ↑ Laing, Jack (June 27, 1933). "Yale team takes impressive lead in college golf tourney. Kowal, Banks, Nittinger, Noyes notch 73 apiece to tie for singles lead" (PDF). Buffalo Courier-Express. p. 15. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 

External links

• NCAA men's golf
• 2013 NCAA Men's Golf Championship Records PDF (165 KiB)

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