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Four Men's Golf Teams set to Play in NCAA Championships
BYU, New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV earn berths to 2005 NCAA National Championship Field
May 31, 2005 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Mountain West Conference will have four teams represented in the 2005 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship set be to played June 1-4 at the Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Md. The 108th NCAA Championship is a four-day, 72-hole tournament. Loyola College (Md.) is co-hosting the championship at the par-70, 7,129-yard course. The top 10 teams and two individuals from each of three regionals last weekend advanced to the National Championship. UNLV won the West Regional at the Stanford Golf Course by three strokes over MWC Tournament Champion New Mexico. BYU and San Diego State also qualified after placing sixth and seventh, respectively. UNLV's Ryan Moore, the 2005 Ben Hogan Award winner, won individual medalist honors in 2004. He placed sixth in the NCAA West Regional and is the top-ranked collegiate player in the nation and leads the country with a 69.08 stroke average. The field for the NCAA Championships is made up of 30 teams with 23 of them ranked in the top-30 according to Golfweek. The field consists of Oklahoma State (1), Georgia (2), Georgia Tech (3), UNLV (4), New Mexico (5), Florida (6), Augusta State (7), Duke (9), Kentucky (11), Tennessee (12), BYU (13), Wake Forest (14), Arizona State (15), UCLA (16), Georgia Southern (17), Southern Cal (18), Texas (20), Alabama (21), Arizona (23), Washington (24), Georgia State (25), SMU (26), Tulsa (30), Purdue, Texas A&M, Coastal Carolina, Arkansas, San Diego State, Stanford and Missouri.
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