June 15, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Committee has announced its selection of hosts and sites for the 2010 and 2011 regional competition of the Division I Men's Golf Championship. In 2011, USD will play host to one of six NCAA Regionals with the event being held at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The Farms Golf Club, one of the top courses in San Diego, is a par-72, 6,911 yard layout with a rating of 73.9 and slope of 143. This past March USD hosted the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship there, and this coming August, The Farms will host the United States Amateur Sectional Qualifier.
"We are excited to be hosting the 2011 West Regional at The Farms Golf Club in 2011," said USD head coach Tim Mickelson. ""The Farms Golf Club is a perfect venue for the NCAA west regional and we are honored that The Farms accepted our request to host the event there and we are thankful to the NCAA for granting the event to USD. The course will present a tough challenge and being that The Farms is a Championship style golf course, the best five teams will advance to the national championship. And we certainly hope and expect to be one of those 5 teams."
The six 2010 sites and hosts include the Capital City Club in Alpharetta, Ga., with the Georgia Institute of Technology serving as host; The Warren Golf Course on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.; Carlton Oaks Golf Course in San Diego, Calif., with San Diego State University as host; The Traditions Club in College Station, Texas with Texas A&M University as host; Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash., with the University of Washington as host; and the Yale University Golf Course in New Haven, Conn., with Yale as host.
"The committee was very pleased with the bids we received and the caliber of golf courses these sites represent," said Darin Spease, the chair of the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Committee and senior associate director of athletics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. "The experience for our student-athletes is of utmost importance to the committee, and we feel these courses will offer unforgettable championship events for them."
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Along with USD in 2011, the other five regionals will be held at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Ariz., with the University of Arizona as host; the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colo., with the University of Colorado, Boulder as host; the Golden Ocala Golf Club in Ocala, Fla., with the University of Florida as host; Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, Ind., with Indiana University, Bloomington as host; and the Pete Dye River Course in Blacksburg, Va., with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as host.
