INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Committee has selected the teams and individuals to participate in the 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships, with Southern Conference champion ETSU heading to the Ohio State Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio, Furman’s Ross Funderburke, Mercer’s Tobias Jonsson and UNCG’s Nick Lyerly earning an at-large selection to the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, regional and Chattanooga’s Paul Conroy securing an at-large bid to the Norman, Oklahoma, regional.
 
The Bucs earned their 27th conference title in program history, including the 22nd SoCon Championship in school history on April 24 in Greensboro, Georgia. ETSU earned the league’s automatic bid into the NCAA Regionals for the second consecutive year and second time in the Jake Amos era. This will be the 28th NCAA Regional appearance in program history.
 
The regional includes 13 teams and 10 individuals. Four of the 13 teams are ranked inside the Golfstat Top-25, with 11 ranked inside the Top 50, including the Bucs who are 30th. Ohio State will serve as the host, seeded sixth in the region, while Oklahoma State claims the No. 1 seed in Columbus. The Ohio State Golf Club, designed by Alister MacKenzie, will serve as the host course, with the Scarlet Course having been the host to 10 men’s national championships and the site of several U.S. Open and Amateur Qualifiers.
 
The Bucs claimed the NCAA Regional title last season in Cle Elum, Washington, shooting a 14-under 838 to best San Francisco by double digits and secure their first title victory since winning the East Regional on May 19, 2001. ETSU has made it out of the regional bracket and into the NCAA Championship 18 times in program history, the last being in the 2020-21 campaign.
 
UNCG’s Lyerly has received the No. 1 at-large bid to participate in the NCAA Men's Golf Palm Beach Gardens Regional, which will be held May 16-19, at the at the PGA National Resort - Champion Course. Lyerly, who was recently named the Southern Conference Men’s Golf Player of the Year for the first time in his career, earns his third NCAA Regional bid after competing at the Pacific Regional in 2018 and the Stanford Regional the following year.
 
Lyerly, the second-highest-ranked golfer in the SoCon at No. 76 nationally, leads the SoCon in stroke average this season at 69.93, and has posted six top-five finishes this season, including wins at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate, the Grandover Collegiate and the Dorado Beach Intercollegiate, a fourth-place finish at the Advance Golf Partners Collegiate and a third-place tie at Rod Myers Invitational. Most recently, he placed second at the SoCon Men’s Golf Championship, concluding the tournament with a 10-under-par 206 performance. The Salisbury, North Carolina, native was the SoCon Player of the Month in October, February and March and earned SoCon Player of the Week honors four times this season, while also being named as a finalist for the Ben Hogan Award.

Furman’s Funderburke and Mercer’s Jonsson join Lyerly at the Palm Beach Gardens Regional. Jonsson concluded the 2021-22 campaign with seven top-five finishes and is second in the league in stroke average at 69.96, while Funderburke posted six top-20 finishes and is sixth in the league in stroke average at 71.83.
 
Chattanooga’s Paul Conroy heads to Norman, Oklahoma, on May 16-18 for the NCAA Norman Regionals. Conroy, who placed fourth at this year’s Southern Conference Championship and finished eighth in the league in stroke average at 72.00, earned the Mocs’ fourth individual berth in program history.

Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted May 16-18. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The top five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
 
Team and individual medalist titles will be decided May 27-June 1 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Arizona State and The Thunderbirds are the hosts for the 2021 championships.

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Ohio State Golf Club – Columbus, Ohio
Hosted by Ohio State
 
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Oklahoma State
2. Georgia Tech
3. Arkansas
4. Clemson
5. East Tennessee State [Southern Conference]
6. Ohio State
7.  Duke
8. Northwestern
9. Florida Gulf Coast
10. San Francisco
11. Kentucky
12. Wright State [Horizon League]
13. Southern Illinois [Missouri Valley Conference]
 
Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1. Hunter Eichhorn, Marquette
2. Griffin Barela, Wisconsin
3. Patrick Sheehan, Penn State
4. Thomas Giroux, Oakland
5. Connor Burgess, Virginia Tech
6. Sam Jean, Cincinnati
7. Lou Olsakovsky, Penn State
8. Cameron Huss, Wisconsin
9. Joe Muschong, Morehead State
10. Anthony Delisanti, Valparaiso
 
PGA National Resort – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Hosted by Florida Atlantic and Palm Beach County Sports Commission
 
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Vanderbilt [Southeastern Conference]
2. Florida
3. Notre Dame
4. Florida State
5. Purdue
6. New Mexico
7. South Florida [American Athletic Conference]
8. Little Rock [Sun Belt Conference]
9. College of Charleston [Colonial Athletic Association]
10. Indiana
11. San Diego
12. Davidson [Atlantic 10 Conference]
13. Loyola Maryland [Patriot League]
14. Charleston Southern [Big South Conference]
 
Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1. Nick Lyerly, UNC Greensboro
2. Tobias Jonsson, Mercer
3. Henrik Lilja, Campbell
4. Ross Funderburke, Furman
5. Zack Byers, Gardner-Webb

Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club – Norman, Oklahoma
Hosted by Oklahoma

Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Oklahoma [Big 12 Conference]
2. Texas
3. Auburn
4. South Carolina
5. Ole Miss
6. Louisville
7. Missouri
8. San Diego State [Mountain West Conference]
9. Utah
10. Kent State [Mid-American Conference]
11. Kansas State
12. UT Martin [Ohio Valley Conference]
13. Rider [Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference]

Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1. Johnny Keefer, Baylor
2. Vicente Marzilio, North Texas
3. Mac McClear, Iowa
4. Justin Biwer, Colorado
5. Evan Davis, Belmont
6. Ronan Kleu, Iowa
7. Paul Conroy, Chattanooga
8. Sam Murphy, Louisiana Tech
9. Nick Wolf, Middle Tennessee
10. Michael Barnard, Middle Tennessee