Alabama Men’s Golf Set to Tee Off 2019 NCAA Athens Regional on Monday Morning
5/11/2019 10:31:00 PM | Men's Golf
Crimson Tide is the No. 5 seed in the Athens Regional and will tee off round one at 8 a.m. ET (7 a.m. CT)
ATHENS, Ga. – The No. 28/30 Alabama men's golf team will begin play at the 2019 NCAA Men's Golf Athens Regional on Monday morning. The Crimson Tide will tee off the three-day, 54-hole regional at 8 a.m. ET (7 a.m. CT) off Hole No. 10 and will be paired alongside No. 20 Liberty and No. 33 Tennessee in first-round action.
This year's regional will be held on May 13-15 in Athens, Ga., at the par 71, 7,253-yard University of Georgia Golf Course.
Alabama's lineup for the tournament will be the same as it has been over the last few tournaments, including when UA took home the Shoal Creek Invitational title at the end of April. Sophomore Wilson Furr will be competing in the top slot again after he won his first collegiate medalist honors and led the Crimson Tide to victory at Shoal Creek. Furr finished that tournament with a season-best 7-under par 209 (72-68-69) and led three other Alabama golfers to top-10 finishes. He enters regional play averaging 72.26 strokes per round and owns a +0.94 average vs. par.
Joining Furr will be freshman Prescott Butler, who had a season-best fourth-place finish at the Shoal Creek event, junior Josh Sedeno and freshman Frankie Capan III. Sophomore Jake DeZoort rounds out the Crimson Tide starting five, while senior Alex Green is also on the trip as Alabama's alternate player.
THE FIELD: This year's Athens Regional, which is hosted by The University of Georgia, features five teams from the Southeastern Conference, including No. 1 seed and fourth-ranked Vanderbilt, followed by the No. 2 seed and ninth-ranked Duke, No. 3 seed and 16th-ranked Georgia, No. 4 and 20th-ranked Liberty, with the Crimson Tide rounding out the top-five teams in the regional. The rest of the 13-team field includes: No. 6 and 33rd-ranked Tennessee, No. 7 Campbell, No. 8 Kentucky, No. 9 Nevada, No. 10 SMU, No. 11 Memphis, No. 12 UNC Wilmington and No. 13 Princeton.
REGIONAL FORMAT: The top five teams from each regional championship and low individual not on an advancing team will move on to the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, which will be hosted by the University of Arkansas at the Blessings Golf Club, in Fayetteville, Ark. on May 24-29.
ALABAMA AT THE NCAA REGIONALS: With this year's selection, the Crimson Tide is participating in its 15th consecutive NCAA Regional under head coach Jay Seawell, and the 23rd appearance overall. Alabama has won an NCAA Regional four times, all of which came during a six-year stretch from 2009-14. The team claimed the 2009 NCAA Galloway (N.J.) Regional, the 2012 NCAA Athens (Ga.) Regional, the 2013 NCAA Baton Rouge (La.) Regional and the 2014 NCAA Auburn (Ala.) Regional. Last year, the Crimson Tide finished in a tie for third at the Washington Regional to earn a spot at the NCAA Championships. UA went on to finish national runners-up.
The Crimson Tide has advanced to nationals 11 times under head coach Jay Seawell, including seven of the last eight seasons. Alabama has won the national championship twice (2013 and 2014) and has finished runner up on two occasions (2012 and 2018).
Live scoring for the championship can be found at www.golfstat.com. The final day of regional play (May 15) will have expanded television coverage on the Golf Channel.
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