ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Championship season begins for the No. 18/17-ranked Vanderbilt men’s golf team this week, as the Commodores are set to travel to Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia, for the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship.
Tournament Format
The 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship takes place April 23-27 on the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club. Teams will play in a 54-hole stroke-play tournament over the first three days, with one 18-hole round being played per day. The top eight finishing teams from stroke play advance to match play.
The SEC Men’s Golf Championship quarterfinal matches will be held Saturday morning, with the semifinals taking place that afternoon. Saturday’s semifinal matches will stream live on SEC Network+ starting at 1 p.m. CT.
The championship match of the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship will be held on Sunday and air live at 7:30 a.m. CT on SEC Network.
Vanderbilt Lineup
1) Jackson Van Paris
2) Wells Williams
3) Ryan Downes
4) Gordon Sargent
5) Chase Nevins
Sub) John Broderick
Course Information
Once again, the SEC Men’s Golf Championship will be played on the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in St Simons Island, Georgia. It is a 7,005-yard course that plays as a par 70. This marks the 24th year for the Southeastern Conference Championship to be contested at Sea Island Golf Club
Live Results
Fans can follow all of the action at the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship via live results at GolfStat.com. Fans can click here for stroke play results and click here for match play results.
Live Coverage
SEC Network+ will stream the semifinal matches of the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship starting at 1 p.m. CT.
Sunday’s championship match will air live starting at 7:30 a.m. CT on SEC Network.
The Field
All 16 conference teams will compete at the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship. Along with No. 18-ranked Vanderbilt, a total of 13 SEC teams are currently ranked inside the top 35 of the Clippd rankings.
Tee Times and Pairings
The first three days of the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship get underway at 7 a.m. CT. Pairings for the first round will be determined by the final regular season Clippd rankings. For the second and third rounds, teams will be paired according to score.
Saturday’s quarterfinal matches begin Friday at 6:30 a.m. CT, with the semifinal matches taking place at noon that same day.
The 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship match tees off Sunday at 7 a.m. CT.
Thomas F. Roush, M.D. and Family Men’s Golf Head Coach Scott Limbaugh on the 2025 SEC Men’s Golf Championship
“This time of year is like a new season, and that means new focus, energy, and enthusiasm for the road ahead. Everything that’s been done to this point is training for this opportunity that begins this week. We have had some great times at the SEC Championship, so we have a lot of strong memories to draw on. I’m excited about where this team is right now because I know we are well prepared. It’s important that they always know they are never alone this time of year, and they have allies out there with them.
“We don’t have to be perfect this week, but we will need to be good and, most importantly, we have to be tough. We have to be tough enough to keep playing the next shot, have great body language, and do the little things well. Finally, we need everyone to give us their best. That’s the best feeling there is, knowing that you gave your best and left it all out there on the course.”
Vanderbilt at the SEC Men’s Golf Championship
The Commodores have recently enjoyed a fair amount of success at the SEC Men’s Golf Championship, as Vandy has won three of the last seven conference titles. Vanderbilt won its first SEC Men’s Golf Championship in 2017, then captured the title in both 2021 and 2022. The Dores have advanced to the SEC Championship match in each of the last four seasons.
The Last Time Out
Junior Wells Williams captured his second win of the season this weekend, as he carded 15-under 198 to win the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship at Vanderbilt Legends Club.
The junior rode the momentum from Round 1, where he carded a career-low 8-under 63, to claim his third career collegiate victory. The West Point, Mississippi, native finished under par in the tournament’s final two rounds on Saturday. Williams went 3-under 68 in Round 2 before shooting 4-under 67 over his final 18 holes to win the tournament by two strokes over the NCAA’s defending individual champion Jackson Koivun of Auburn.
The Commodores had three golfers place inside the top 10 on the player leaderboard at the Mason Rudolph Championship to help the No. 18/19-ranked Commodores finish in third place as a team. Vanderbilt carded a season-low 27 under 825 over 54 holes of play on a split course at Vanderbilt Legends Club. Due to weather, teams played the front nine of the South Course and the back nine of the North Course.
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