WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Coming off its best NCAA Regionals finish in 22 years, the Purdue men's golf team earned the No. 19 seed in this week's NCAA Championships.
Making Purdue's first appearance since 2017 and fourth under Rob Bradley, the Boilermakers' seed is its highest under the new match-play championship format that was started in 2009. The Boilermakers are paired with No. 20 seed Stanford and No. 21 seed Wake Forest in the first two rounds on Friday and Saturday at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa's North Course in Carlsbad, California.
Purdue's previous high seed was No. 26, coming in the 2017 and 2016 National Championships.
In Friday's first round, Purdue will be part of the first group off the No. 1 tee, starting at 7:02 a.m. PT / 10:02 a.m. ET. In Saturday's second round, Purdue will start off No. 10, beginning at 12:22 p.m. PT / 3:22 p.m. ET.
After three rounds of stroke play, the field will be whittled down to the top-15 teams from the three rounds of stroke play. A fourth round on Memorial Day will be played to narrow the field to eight teams for match play. The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds will be played on Tuesday, May 28, with the National Championship being played on Wednesday, May 29.
The Boilermakers enter the tournament with a 17-21-1 record in head-to-head competition against the championship field. Purdue is 0-8-0 against teams seeded in the single-digits (Auburn, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida State, Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma), but is 17-13-1 against teams seeded 10 through 30.
Purdue will be making its 30th trip to the National Championships and is looking to become the 17th school to win multiple National Championships, and the first Big Ten school to win a National Championship since Minnesota in 2002. The Boilermakers won a national title in 1961.
Purdue will have a practice round on Thursday morning at Omni La Costa.
Making Purdue's first appearance since 2017 and fourth under Rob Bradley, the Boilermakers' seed is its highest under the new match-play championship format that was started in 2009. The Boilermakers are paired with No. 20 seed Stanford and No. 21 seed Wake Forest in the first two rounds on Friday and Saturday at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa's North Course in Carlsbad, California.
Purdue's previous high seed was No. 26, coming in the 2017 and 2016 National Championships.
In Friday's first round, Purdue will be part of the first group off the No. 1 tee, starting at 7:02 a.m. PT / 10:02 a.m. ET. In Saturday's second round, Purdue will start off No. 10, beginning at 12:22 p.m. PT / 3:22 p.m. ET.
After three rounds of stroke play, the field will be whittled down to the top-15 teams from the three rounds of stroke play. A fourth round on Memorial Day will be played to narrow the field to eight teams for match play. The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds will be played on Tuesday, May 28, with the National Championship being played on Wednesday, May 29.
The Boilermakers enter the tournament with a 17-21-1 record in head-to-head competition against the championship field. Purdue is 0-8-0 against teams seeded in the single-digits (Auburn, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida State, Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma), but is 17-13-1 against teams seeded 10 through 30.
Purdue will be making its 30th trip to the National Championships and is looking to become the 17th school to win multiple National Championships, and the first Big Ten school to win a National Championship since Minnesota in 2002. The Boilermakers won a national title in 1961.
Purdue will have a practice round on Thursday morning at Omni La Costa.