The Bulls will compete in the Rancho Santa Fe Regional.
TOURNAMENT: NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional
WHEN: Monday, May 13 – Wednesday, May 15, 2024
LOCATION: Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
COURSE: The Farms Golf Club
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TAMPA, FLA., May 11, 2024 – The University of South Florida men’s golf team, making their 10th NCAA Regional appearance, will play in the Rancho Santa Fe Regional in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The Bulls, the No. 8 seed, will begin play Monday, May 13 at 8:55 a.m. (PT) off the 1st tee.
The AAC Champion Bulls are competing in the NCAA Regional for the first time since 2022. USF has advanced to the championship round four times, reaching the match play finals and finishing sixth in 2015.
USF will play at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, on May 13-15. Three regional sites will have 13 teams and 10 individuals and three will have 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 NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, May 24-29.
The 46th-ranked Bulls will compete in a 14-team field that includes No. 1Arizona State, No. 2 Washington, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 California, No. 5 Oklahoma State, No. 6 North Florida, No. 7 Chattanooga, No. 8 South Florida, No. 9 San Diego, No. 10 West Virginia, No. 11 Kansas, No. 12 Wright State, No. 13 Seton Hall, and No. 14 Winthrop.
The 2023-24 season marks the eighth NCAA Regional competition under coach Steve Bradley, the American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Bradley led the Bulls to seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (2015-22). He has made three NCAA Championship appearances. Under Bradley, USF has won the American Conference Championship six times in the tournament’s 10 years.
The Bulls are led by junior Jake Peacock (Milton, Ga.), the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a member of the 2023-24 AAC All-Conference team. Peacock won the American Conference individual championship and added another win in the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate, earning the conference player of the week honors.
Graduate student Brock Healy (Norcross, Ga.) is also a member of the 2023-24 AAC All-Conference team. Healy recorded his first win as a Bull in the Fall. Healy posted three top-10 finishes on the season, including in the conference championship.
Senior Sam Nicholson (Atlantic Beach, Fla.) was named to the AAC All-Conference team. He captured his first win as a Bull in the Fall in the USF Invitational. Nicholson had three top-10 finishes in 2023-24.
Joining the charge for the Bulls are redshirt junior Cooper Smith (Tampa, Fla.) who has three top-25 finishes on the season, and junior Shubham Jaglan (Delhi, India), who has two top-10 finishes in 2023-24.
About USF Men’s Golf
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The USF men’s golf program has captured 19 conference titles and has seen players earn 19 All-America honors. The Bulls have won six American Athletic Conference Tournament championships in wire-to-wire fashion, winning four consecutive from 2015-18. The Bulls have had four individual conference champions, including Albin Bergstrom in 2021, and gone on to earn nine straight NCAA Regional appearances, including a 6th place finish in NCAA Championship match-play in 2015. USF is led by Steve Bradley, who has been named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times since taking over the program in 2014. The Bulls have posted 24 tournament wins under Bradley including three in the 2023-24 season, by far the most under any coach in program history.
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