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Myrtle Beach Regional
PREVIEW: Myrtle Beach Regional
May 12, 2019 | Men's Golf
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech will start play in its 18th straight NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships on Monday where the Red Raiders are the No. 3 seed at the Myrtle Beach Regional at the TPC Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Tech, which is No. 15 nationally in the Golfstat rankings, is scheduled to open the tournament at 8Â a.m. (CST) and is paired with top-seeded Wake Forest and Cal in the first of three rounds.
Tech will be represented at the regional by Sandy Scott, Ivan Ramirez, Kyle Hogan, Adam Blomme and Jansen Smith. The Red Raiders won the 2010 South Central Regional in College Station, was second in 2010 at the Lubbock Regional and is coming off a fifth-place showing at last year's Columbus Regional that advance them to the NCAA Championship and an eventual quarterfinals appearance. The program has advanced past the regional round 12 times in program history.
Ramirez will be playing in his third NCAA regional, while Scott and Blomme their second and Hogan and Smith are making their regional debut. Blomme finished seventh overall at last year's regional at the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio after shooting 1-under to help the Red Raiders advance. A junior from Scotland, Scott is currently ranked No. 13 in the nation individually and the second-ranked player in the regional behind only Cal senior Collin Morikawa who enters the national postseason ranked No. 2 nationally.
The No. 10-ranked Red Raiders will be coming off a fifth-place finish at the Big 12 Conference Championship last weekend at The Greenbrier in West Virginia and have recorded tournament wins at the El Macero Classic and Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. Tech has seven top-5 finishes this season, including runner-up showings at the Lake Charles Invitational and Showdown in the Rockies. The Red Raiders will be joined at Myrtle Beach by Wake Forest, Cal, Illinois, Florida State, UNLV, Oregon, Ohio State, Northwestern, Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton, Middle Tennessee, VCU and Robert Morris.
The NCAA regional round consists of six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted Monday-Wednesday throughout the country. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
DI MEN'S GOLF: Rankings | Championship history | Championship informationÂ
Team and individual medalist titles will be decided May 24-29 at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The University of Arkansas is the host institution for the 2019 championships.Â
Scott leads the Red Raiders coming into the NCAA tournament after shooting 5-under and finishing fifth overall the Big 12 Championship. A junior from Scotland, Scott has recorded six top-10 showings this season, including winning the El Macero Classic in mid-April after shooting 13-under and finishing as the runner-up at the Lake Charles Invitational. A Texas Tech senior Ramirez is coming off a 17th place result at the Big 12 Championship after finishing as the El Macero Classic. He has four top-10 finishes and along with Scott earned a spot on the Arnold Palmer Cup International Team. Senior Adam Blomme and Jansen Smith tied for 28th at the Big 12 Tournament, while sophomore Kyle Hogan has three top-10 finishes this season. Hogan was fourth at the Lake Charles Invitational and sixth at the El Macero Classic leading into the postseason. Blomme recorded his best tournament result with a runner-up finish at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate by shooting 7-under before taking ninth at the Southern Highlands Collegiate.
TPC Myrtle Beach – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Hosted by Coastal Carolina University and Myrtle Beach Regional Sports Alliance
Teams (seeded in the following order):
Hosted by the University of Georgia
Teams (seeded in the following order):
Hosted by the University of Louisville
Teams (seeded in the following order):
Hosted by Stanford University
Teams (seeded in the following order):
Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin
Teams (seeded in the following order):
Hosted by Washington State University
Teams (seeded in the following order):
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Tech will be represented at the regional by Sandy Scott, Ivan Ramirez, Kyle Hogan, Adam Blomme and Jansen Smith. The Red Raiders won the 2010 South Central Regional in College Station, was second in 2010 at the Lubbock Regional and is coming off a fifth-place showing at last year's Columbus Regional that advance them to the NCAA Championship and an eventual quarterfinals appearance. The program has advanced past the regional round 12 times in program history.
Ramirez will be playing in his third NCAA regional, while Scott and Blomme their second and Hogan and Smith are making their regional debut. Blomme finished seventh overall at last year's regional at the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio after shooting 1-under to help the Red Raiders advance. A junior from Scotland, Scott is currently ranked No. 13 in the nation individually and the second-ranked player in the regional behind only Cal senior Collin Morikawa who enters the national postseason ranked No. 2 nationally.
The No. 10-ranked Red Raiders will be coming off a fifth-place finish at the Big 12 Conference Championship last weekend at The Greenbrier in West Virginia and have recorded tournament wins at the El Macero Classic and Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. Tech has seven top-5 finishes this season, including runner-up showings at the Lake Charles Invitational and Showdown in the Rockies. The Red Raiders will be joined at Myrtle Beach by Wake Forest, Cal, Illinois, Florida State, UNLV, Oregon, Ohio State, Northwestern, Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton, Middle Tennessee, VCU and Robert Morris.
The NCAA regional round consists of six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted Monday-Wednesday throughout the country. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
DI MEN'S GOLF: Rankings | Championship history | Championship informationÂ
Team and individual medalist titles will be decided May 24-29 at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The University of Arkansas is the host institution for the 2019 championships.Â
Scott leads the Red Raiders coming into the NCAA tournament after shooting 5-under and finishing fifth overall the Big 12 Championship. A junior from Scotland, Scott has recorded six top-10 showings this season, including winning the El Macero Classic in mid-April after shooting 13-under and finishing as the runner-up at the Lake Charles Invitational. A Texas Tech senior Ramirez is coming off a 17th place result at the Big 12 Championship after finishing as the El Macero Classic. He has four top-10 finishes and along with Scott earned a spot on the Arnold Palmer Cup International Team. Senior Adam Blomme and Jansen Smith tied for 28th at the Big 12 Tournament, while sophomore Kyle Hogan has three top-10 finishes this season. Hogan was fourth at the Lake Charles Invitational and sixth at the El Macero Classic leading into the postseason. Blomme recorded his best tournament result with a runner-up finish at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate by shooting 7-under before taking ninth at the Southern Highlands Collegiate.
TPC Myrtle Beach – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Hosted by Coastal Carolina University and Myrtle Beach Regional Sports Alliance
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Wake Forest
- California
- Texas Tech
- Illinois [Big Ten Conference]
- Florida State
- UNLV
- Oregon
- Ohio State
- Northwestern
- Oregon State
- Cal State Fullerton [Big West Conference]
- Middle Tennessee [Conference USA]
- VCU [Atlantic 10 Conference]
- Robert Morris [Northeast Conference]
- Jack Lang, Davidson
- Zack Taylor, Coastal Carolina
- Bobby Bai, University of Central Florida
- Kyler Tate, University of Central Florida
- Florian Schroedl, Fairleigh Dickinson
Hosted by the University of Georgia
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Vanderbilt
- Duke
- Georgia
- Liberty
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Campbell [Big South Conference]
- Kentucky
- Nevada
- SMU
- Memphis [American Athletic Conference]
- University of North Carolina Wilmington [Colonial Athletic Association]
- Princeton [The Ivy League]
- Roland Massimino, Kansas State
- Jacob Eklund, Kansas State
- Eduardo Carrete, Jacksonville
- Keller Harper, Furman
- Jeremy Gandon, Kansas State
- Billy Tom Sargent, Western Kentucky
- Logan Sowell, College of Charleston
- John Gough, Charlotte
- Jordan Warnock, University of South Carolina Upstate
- Will Halamandaris, Lafayette
Hosted by the University of Louisville
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Oklahoma State [Big 12 Conference]
- Auburn
- North Florida [ASUN Conference]
- Louisville
- Baylor
- Arkansas State [Sun Belt Conference]
- Iowa State
- West Virginia
- Arizona
- Mississippi State
- New Mexico [Mountain West Conference]
- Jacksonville State [Ohio Valley Conference]
- Southern Illinois [Missouri Valley Conference]
- Jordan Hahn, Wisconsin
- Jamie Stewart, Missouri
- Miguel Delgado, Notre Dame
- Trent Wallace, Illinois State
- Jimmy Hervol, UConn
- Logan Lowe, George Washington
- David Rauer, Illinois State
- Garrett Wood, Xavier
- Duncan McNeill, Toledo
- George Kneiser, Green Bay
Hosted by Stanford University
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Arizona State
- Stanford [Pac-12 Conference]
- LSU
- NC State
- North Carolina
- South Florida
- Kansas
- Virginia
- Ole Miss
- Georgia Southern
- UNC Greensboro [Southern Conference]
- Augusta University [Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference]
- Denver [The Summit League]
- Austin Squires, Cincinnati
- Riley Elmes, Loyola Marymount University
- James Nicholas, Yale
- Kyler Dunkle, Utah
- Teddy Zinsner, Yale
- Guillaume Fanonnel, Louisiana-Monroe
- Alex Lee, Fresno State
- Jack Rhea, East Tennessee State
- Shiso Go, East Tennessee State
- Jake Vincent, Southern Utah
Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Texas
- Southern California
- Pepperdine [West Coast Conference]
- Clemson
- TCU
- Arkansas [Southeastern Conference]
- Iowa
- Marquette [Big East Conference]
- San Jose State
- Saint Mary's (California)
- Sam Houston State [Southland Conference]
- University of Missouri-Kansas City [Western Athletic Conference]
- Prairie View A&M [Southwestern Athletic Conference]
- Army West Point [Patriot League]
- Blake Elliott, McNeese
- Angus Flanagan, Minnesota
- Cody Burrows, Oral Roberts
- Jake Benson, Rice
- Jeffrey Peters, Saint Peter's
Hosted by Washington State University
Teams (seeded in the following order):
- Oklahoma
- Georgia Tech [Atlantic Coast Conference]
- South Carolina
- Texas A&M
- UCLA
- Brigham Young
- Colorado State
- Florida
- Michigan State
- Purdue
- Kent State [Mid-American Conference]
- Northern Colorado [Big Sky Conference]
- Wright State [Horizon League]
- Iona [Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference]
- Thomas Hutchison, UC Davis
- Zach Smith, UC Santa Barbara
- Daniel O'Loughlin, Colorado
- Tim Widing, San Francisco
- Jake Chanen, Grand Canyon
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