DURHAM – The Duke men’s golf team has been selected to the Norman Regional of the 2023 NCAA Championship – the program’s 31st total, and eighth consecutive, NCAA regional appearance in program history. Head coach Jamie Green has now led the Blue Devils to 13 NCAA regionals in 14 possible seasons.
Duke is the sixth seed at the Norman Regional and is joined in the field by top seeded Texas Tech along with Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, LSU, North Florida, Colorado, Kansas, UNCW, Louisiana, Princeton and Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
The Norman Regional is held at the Jimmie Austin Golf Club – the home course of host school Oklahoma – in Norman, Okla., and is one of six 54-hole regional tournaments held on May 15-17. The course plays to a par of 72 and is 7,452 yards from the championship tees.
Three of the regional sites consist of 13 teams and 10 individuals not on those teams, while the other three regionals have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. At each regional site, the low five teams and the low individual not on those teams advance to compete in the NCAA Championship on May 26-31. The finals are held at Grayhawk Golf Club (Raptor Course) in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the third straight year.
Duke enters NCAA Championship play following a strong showing at the ACC Championship, as the Blue Devils advanced to the match play portion for the first time since the league switched to a combined format in 2021. Luke Sample secured a tie for third place on the stroke play leaderboard, using a birdie-eagle finish to help clinch the Blue Devils’ spot in the match play semifinals. Duke fell to Georgia Tech in the semifinals, 3-1-1, with Kelly Chinn winning his match 2&1, while freshman Ethan Evans finished tied after 18 holes.
Duke has finished third or better in three of the last five regionals and in four of its last seven appearances, including a third-place finish in 2015 at the Lubbock Regional, a tied-second at the Baton Rouge Regional in 2017, a second-place finish at the Raleigh Regional in 2018 as Duke shot 22-under par – the program’s record for an NCAA Regional competition — and a second-place finish at the Athens Regional in 2019. The 2020 NCAA Championship was canceled by the…
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