Next up for the Sun Devil Men’s Golf team is NCAA Regional play set for May 18-20, with locations and seedings announced on Wednesday, May 6.
Words from the NCAA
The 2026 DI Men’s Golf Championship will feature 81 teams and 45 individuals beginning in regional competition. The regional field will be revealed in a selection show on Wednesday, May 6, at 2 p.m. ET on the Golf Channel. Teams will be split into six different regionals, with regional play beginning on Monday, May 18.
The low five teams and low individual from each region will qualify for a spot in the championship finals. Thirty teams and six individuals in total will compete in the finals from Friday, May 29, to Wednesday, June 3, at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.
2026 DI Men's Golf Championship schedule
- Selection show: 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 6 on Golf Channel
- Regionals: Monday, May 18 - Wednesday, May 20
- Athens | University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Georgia
- Bermuda Run | Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North Carolina
- Bryan | Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas
- Columbus | OSU Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio
- Corvallis | Trysting Tree Golf Club in Corvallis, Oregon
- Marana | The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona
- Finals: Friday, May 29 - Wednesday, June 3: Omni La Costa Resort & Spa| Carlsbad, California
NCAA regional success
ASU won back-to-back regional titles in 2022 and 2023 (shot a combined 97-under) and has won or tied for an NCAA regional title nine times. ASU tied with Arizona in 1991 and tied with New Mexico in 1998. It won the title outright in 1995, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2016, 2022 and 2023. Only Oklahoma State (17) and Texas (10) have won more NCAA Regional titles.
Sun Devil Men's Golf regional titles
2023: Las Vegas, Nevada
2022: Stockton, California
2016: Albuquerque, New Mexico
2009: Daly City, California
2001: Corvallis, Oregon
1999: Tucson, Arizona
1998: Tempe, Arizona (tie)
1995: Albuquerque, New Mexico
1991: Albuquerque, New Mexico (tie)
Not easy to make it
Nine top-30 teams didn't make the trip to the NCAA Championships in 2025, as LSU (6), North Carolina (10), San Diego State (15), Alabama (16), Utah (17), Duke (21), SMU (24), Long Beach State (26) and Louisville (27) all stayed home. I
n 2024, nine top-30 teams didn't advance, including five top-10 teams, as third-ranked ASU, Ole Miss (7), Arkansas (8), Alabama (9), Washington (10), Georgia (20), Oregon (24), Duke (25) and Northwestern (28) all didn't make the regional cut. ASU had avoided that since 2014, prior to 2024.
2023 NCAA Regional title in Las Vegas
ASU emerged victorious in record-breaking fashion from four strokes down to win the 2023 Las Vegas NCAA Regional, shooting 21-under 267 (65-67-67-68=267) to outpace No. 8 Stanford by two strokes. ASU shot 59-under (262-276-267=805), led by Preston Summerhays' magnificent round of 65, while Josele Ballester's and Michael Mjaaseth's rounds of 67 placed them in the top-10 at Bear’s Best. The final round of 59-under set the NCAA postseason record as well as the Pac-12 record previously set by USC in 2005 at 54-under. It marked the team’s ninth regional victory, tying Texas for second-most all-time and the second consecutive year ASU had claimed a regional title after winning the Stockton regional in 2022 by ten strokes. It marked the 58th time the program had reached the national championship.
2022 NCAA Regional title in Stockton
The Sun Devil Men's Golf team advanced to the 2022 NCAA Championship in convincing fashion with a win at the Stockton Regional. The Sun Devils shot 38-under 826 (279-276-271) and had all four players who competed each day finish in the top 10. All-American David Puig -- who sat out the first round as he returned from a back injury -- wasted no time in proving he is back, going 8-under in his two rounds (69-67). Mason Andersen tied for second at 10-under 206 (70-68-68), while freshman Josele Ballester tied for sixth at 8-under 208 (68-69-71). Freshman Preston Summerhays (72-70-67) and senior Cameron Sisk (69-71-69) tied for tenth at 7-under 209.
Sun Devil NCAA Regional finishes under Coach Thurmond
2025: 2nd/Bremerton, Washington
2024: 6th/Rancho Santa Fe, California
2023: 1st/Las Vegas, Nevada
2022: 1st/Stockton, California
2021: T-2nd/Albuquerque, N.M.
2019: T-2nd/Stanford, California
2018: 5th/Raleigh, N.C.
2017: 5th/Austin, Texas
Coach Thurmond's regional note
Coach Thurmond has reached the NCAA Championship in seven of eight chances at ASU. Since becoming a head coach in 2002, his squads have made the NCAA Championship in 19 of his 23 chances, missing only in 2024, 2016, 2011 and 2007.
Random Pacific Time Zone note
The 2025 regional marked just the seventh time ASU competed in an NCAA regional in the Pacific Time Zone in 15 years (2010-present). It won the Las Vegas Regional in 2023, the Stockton Regional in 2022, tied for second at Stanford in 2019, was second in San Diego in 2015 and fifth in Tempe in 2013. It didn’t advance out of Rancho Santa Fe in 2024.
Sun Devil Men's Golf regional finishes
2025: 2nd/Bremerton, Washington
2024: 6th/Rancho Santa Fe, California
2023: 1st/Las Vegas, Nevada
2022: 1st/Stockton, California
2021: T-2nd/Albuquerque, New Mexico
2019: T-2nd/Stanford, California
2018: 5th/Raleigh, N.C.
2017: 5th/Austin, Texas
2016: 1st/Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015: 2nd/San Diego, California
2014: 6th/Columbia, Mo.
2013: 5th/Tempe, Arizona
2012: DNC
2011: T-4th/Erie, Colorado
2010: T-4th/Atlanta, Georgia
2009: 1st/Daly City, California
2008: 8th/Bremerton, Washington
2007: T-3rd/Tempe, Arizona
2006: T-3rd/Tucson, Arizona
2005: T-4th/Stanford, California
2004: 4th/Sunriver, Oregon
2003: T-5th/Seattle, Washington
2002: 20th/Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001: 1st/Corvallis, Oregon
2000: T-6th/Fresno, California
1999: 1st/Tucson, Arizona
1998: T-1st/Tempe, Arizona
1997: 2nd/Santee, California
1996: 2nd/Stanford, California
1995: 1st/Albuquerque, New Mexico
1994: 2nd/Tucson, Arizona
1993: 2nd/Provo, Utah
1992: 2nd/Tucson, Arizona
1991: T-1st/Albuquerque, New Mexico
1990: 3rd/Las Cruces, New Mexico
1989: 2nd/El Paso, Texas
Sun Devil individuals as NCAA Regional champions
Jon Rahm, 2016 and 2015
Jesper Kennegard, 2009
Ben Alvarado, 2007
Matt Jones, 2001 (shared)
Jeff Quinney, 1999
Paul Casey, 1998