NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale Golf Course, consistently ranked the nation's top college golf venue, is hosting a regional playoff for the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. The three-day, 54-hole event runs from Monday, May 16 to Wednesday, May 18.
 
Some of the nation's top collegiate golfers, including the Ivy League Champion Bulldogs, will be playing Yale's legendary course beginning with a practice round on Sunday, May 15.
 
TEAMS COMING TO YALE
North Carolina, the No. 1 seed in this regional, is joined by Texas Tech, Wake Forest, Illinois, North Carolina State, Charlotte, North Florida, Georgia Southern, Mississippi State, Virginia, Central Florida, Seton Hall, Yale and Sacred Heart. There will also be individuals playing from UCLA, UConn, Virginia Commonwealth, Delaware and Lafayette.
 
NCAAS
This month's tournament marks the sixth time (1991, 1995, 2004, 2010, 2015) that Yale has hosted an NCAA regional.
 
THE YALE GOLF COURSE
Designed by Charles Blair Macdonald—renowned golf course architect, champion golfer and co-founder of the USGA—and opened for play in 1926, the Yale Golf Course is recognized globally as an exemplar of early American course design. The 6,749-yard, par-70 course features large and deeply bunkered greens and narrow fairways that challenge golfers at all levels of play. Two of the holes—the 432-yard par-4 fourth and the 238-yard par 3 ninth—have been ranked among the world's 100 most difficult holes.
 
OTHER VENUES
The five other regional sites hosting on May 16-18 are Traditions Club (Bryan, Texas), PGA National Resort (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), The Reserve at Spanos Park (Stockton, Calif.), Jimmie Austin Golf Club (Norman, Okla.), OSU Golf Club (Columbus, Ohio) and Grayhawk Golf Club (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
 
BULLDOGS AND REGIONALS
The Yale men's golf team, which qualified for this year's NCAA Tournament by winning the 2022 Ivy League Championship, competed in three (1991, 1995, 2004) of the five regionals in New Haven. The Bulldogs will be at the Yale Regional for the fourth time.
 
FORMAT
There are six regionals – three of which have 13 teams and 10 individuals and three with 14 teams and five individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to play in the championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 27- June 1.