No. 4/5 Sun Devil Men’s Golf has made it back its home national championship and will look to make it one better than the 2022 National Runner-Up team. ASU enters with two wins in its last three events, sandwiched around a second place finish at the Pac-12 Championship.
ASU will tee it off with Pac-12 foe Standard along with Texas Tech, beginning at 11:52 a.m. MST on the first hole Friday. The athletes go off at 11:52, 12:03, 12:14, 12:25 and 12:36. The same pairs will go ahead Saturday beginning at 6:32 a.m. on the 10th tee. Pairs beyond that point have not been announced.
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- In it’s three years of hosting the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championships, Grayhawk Golf Club has housed nearly 500 different student-athletes.
- Arizona State is the only school in the country to have made at least 20 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championships since 2000 (Women’s 21, Men’s 20).
- Preston Summerhays has finished in the top five in five of his last seven tournaments.
- ASU’s 59-under 805 at the Las Vegas Regional was the lowest regional score in NCAA history and the lowest 54-hole score by an ASU team, ever.
- Josele Ballester has three top-seven finishes in the last four tournaments individually. He has four total top-seven results on the entire season.
- Getting to Grayhawk is not a given, as nine teams in the top 30 (Golfstat) did not make it out of the regional. This is up from eight last year.
- Per the Golfweek rankings, ASU has the most wins of any team in the nation against both Top 25 (56-19-2) and Top 50 (84-20-2) foes.
- Two Sun Devils return from last season’s lineup, Preston Summerhays and Josele Ballester.
- Ryggs Johnston has a career-best third place individual finish at the 2021 NCAA Championships.
- Sun Devil Men’s Golf led the field on par-3 holes at the Las Vegas Regional, shooting even for the event. Second-best was ETSU at four-ver.
THE COURSE
- Grayhawk Golf Club has hosted the last the three NCAA National Championships and is located in Scottsdale, less than 25 miles from ASU’s home.
- The course measures 7,289 yards and is a par 70.
THE FORMAT
- Squads will play four rounds – 18 holes per day from Friday – Monday – before the top eight teams advance to match play.
- Should the Sun Devils advance, the schedule…
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