WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – For the eighth time in the last nine tournaments, the Purdue men’s golf team has been selected for the NCAA Regional Championships announced Wednesday afternoon on the Golf Channel.
The Boilermakers earned the No. 7 seed in the Clemson Regional and will be joined in seed order by North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern, Arkansas, New Mexico, Clemson, Furman, Middle Tennessee, Northern Illinois, Long Island and Longwood at the Cliffs at Keowee Falls, played May 15 to 17.
“We’re obviously thrilled to be selected for NCAA Regionals and we’re excited to get to Clemson and see how we stack up,” Purdue head coach Rob Bradley said. “We’ve had a solid spring and have really been playing better in the last month, so to get down there and compete against the best teams in the country is exciting for us. This is a great field with a lot of very good teams, so we will have to play very well to advance, but I’m excited to see what this team can do. We will be ready.”
Under Bradley, Purdue is currently in one of its best stretches in school history, reaching the postseason for the eighth time in nine tournaments, the best stretch for the program since the 1950s and 60s. Purdue has been a top-10 seed in all eight regionals and surpassed its seed in five of the previous seven regionals.
“Our program has been a model of consistency in our conference, but to take it to the next level, we need to compete in Regionals and advance. That will always be the goal. This is another chance to take our program to the next level,” Bradley added.
Purdue enters the NCAA Clemson Regional ranked No. 38 in the country, posting six top-five finishes in 10 events and posting a head-to-head record of 87-45-1 (.658). The Boilermakers won the Boilermaker Invitational, placed third at the Purdue Fall Invitational and fourth at the Isleworth Intercollegiate and Hootie at Bulls Bay. Included in its head-to-head record are head-to-head victories over Oklahoma (#9), Arizona (#19) and Ole Miss (#20).
On the individual side, the Boilermakers are led by All-America candidate Herman Sekne, who was just named first-team All-Big Ten for the second straight season and owns the single-season school record in stroke average and rounds in the 60s, while posting seven top-10…
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