INDIANAPOLIS -- The San Diego State men's golf team will travel to Tennessee for the 2021 Kingston Springs Regional, May 17-19, as announced Wednesday by the NCAA selection committee. The 26th-ranked Aztecs earned the No. 5 seed for their 21st regional appearance in the last 22 tournaments and 24th overall since the regional format was launched in 1989.
SDSU claimed an at-large bid after winning two tournaments (Southwestern Invitational from Jan. 25-27 and Wyoming Cowboy Classic from April 5-6) and logging five top-five finishes in seven events in the spring season. Kingston, Tenn. (Vanderbilt) is one of six regional tournaments that will also be played concurrently in Noblesville, Ind. (Ball State), Tallahassee, Fla. (Florida State), Albuquerque, N.M. (New Mexico), Stillwater, Okla. (Oklahoma State) and Cle Elum, Wash. (Washington).
The top-five squads and lowest individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships, slated for May 28-June 2, at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Vanderbilt, the No. 3 seed, will play host to the Kingston Springs Regional, which features 13 schools and five individuals. The teams and individuals will play 18 holes (54 total) on each of the three days at the par-71, 7,102-yard The Golf of Club of Tennessee, following a practice round on Sunday, May 16. A live hole-by-hole scoring link will be available for all three rounds courtesy of Golfstat on GoAztecs.com.
The 13 teams in the Kingston Springs Regional in order of seed are Clemson, North Carolina State, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, San Diego State, Virginia, Charlotte, Kent State, UTSA, Houston, Loyola-Md., UConn and Iona.
The Aztecs have qualified for nationals 23 times in school history, including eight occasions (1999, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016) since the regional format was initiated. SDSU claimed its first-ever NCAA regional crown in 2011, after finishing in the top spot by seven strokes at the No. 2 seed in Tucson, Ariz., followed by runner-up performances at Stanford, Calif., and New Haven, Conn., respectively, in 2012 and 2015. At the 2016 Albuquerque Regional, San Diego State gained the fifth and final spot to the NCAA championship series after defeating Texas A&M on the first hole of a dramatic sudden-death playoff, before finishing eighth at the 2017 Washington Regional in suburban Seattle and 10th at its last regional appearance in Norman, Okla., in 2018.
Men’s Golf Headed to Tennessee for NCAA Regionals
