INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2021 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships.
The championships, which will be held May 11-14 at Oglebay, in Wheeling, WV and will be hosted by Bethany College and the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. The team and individual champions will be determined after 72 holes of play or the conclusion of the last fully completed round. Thirty-seven teams and six individuals not on one of those teams will be selected to participate in the championships. After 36 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 18 teams and top six individuals not on one of those teams.
CHAMPS: View the complete 2021 spring selections schedule
A total of 191 participants will compete at the 2021 championships. Thirty conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the championships. Four teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final three berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams. The six individuals are selected from the remaining players who have not qualified with a team. Listed below are the teams and individuals selected for the 2021 championships:
Conferences Receiving Automatic Qualification Berths (30)
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference – Pennsylvania State Univ. Erie, The Behrend College
American Rivers Conference - Nebraska Wesleyan
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin-Baylor
Centennial Conference – Franklin & Marshall
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Illinois Wesleyan
Colonial States Athletic Conference - Rosemont
Commonwealth Coast Conference – Western New England
Empire 8 - Utica
Great Northeast Athletic Conference – Albertus Magnus
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Rose-Hulman
Landmark Conference - Catholic
Liberty League – Rensselaer Polytechnic
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Trine
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth – York College (Pennsylvania)
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom – Stevens Institute of Technology
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – St. John’s (Minnesota)
New England Small College Athletic Conference - Trinity (Connecticut)
North Atlantic Conference - Husson
North Coast Athletic Conference - Denison
North Eastern Athletic Conference – Pennsylvania College of Technology
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference - Aurora
Northwest Conference - Willamette
Ohio Athletic Conference - Otterbein
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Guilford
Presidents’ Athletic Conference – Westminster PA
Skyline Conference – Farmingdale State
Southern Athletic Association – South - Sewanee
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Webster
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - Wisconsin-Superior
USA South Athletic Conference – Piedmont
Pool B Berths (4)
Emory
Trinity Texas
Carnegie Mellon
Christopher Newport
Pool C Berths (3)
Methodist
Huntingdon
St. Thomas Minnesota
Individuals (6)
Kevin Burris, Pfeiffer
Cameron Starr, LaGrange
Lane Roye, McMurry
Jacob Pedersen, Gustavus Adolphus
Declan Hickton, Rochester
Pierce Robinson, Washington & Lee
With the 2020 DIII Men’s Golf Championships canceled last year, we recognize Illinois Wesleyan, who claimed its first national title in school history at the 2019 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships, finishing just three shots ahead of runner-up Huntingdon. Sam Goldenring of Williams earned medalist honors finishing two shots ahead of runner-up Josh Gibson of Hope. The 2019 championships were played at Keene Trace Golf Club, in Nicholasville, Kentucky and were hosted by Transylvania University.
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