CARLSBAD, Calif. – The No. 16-ranked Vanderbilt men’s golf team heads out to the Golden State this week looking for the program’s first team national title, as the Commodores are set to participate in the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship on May 23-28 at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa.
Tournament Format
The 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, hosted by Texas, features 72 holes of stroke play and three rounds of match play. The tournament takes place on the North Course at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
All 30 teams and six individuals play one 18-hole round per day, with the first three rounds taking place on Friday through Sunday.
After Round 3, the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals from non-advancing teams will move on to Round 4 on Monday. Round 4 of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship will air on Golf Channel from 5-9 p.m. CT.
The top eight teams at the end of stroke play move on to match play. The quarterfinals take place on Tuesday morning, while the semifinal matches will be played later that afternoon. The 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship title match is set for Wednesday, May 28, and will broadcast live on Golf Channel.
Course Information
Teams will play on the North Course at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa. It is a 7,538-yard course that plays as a par 72. It is the second-straight season that the NCAA Championship has been at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
Stroke Play Tee Times
Rounds 1-3 of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship feature two waves, with the morning wave teeing off at 8:30 a.m. CT and the afternoon wave beginning at 1:50 p.m. CT.
The top 15 teams after 54 holes move onto Round 4 of stroke play, which begins Monday at 12:30 p.m. CT.
Vanderbilt tees off Round 1 on Friday at 3:40 p.m. CT from the 10th tee box. The Commodores begin Round 2 at 10:20 a.m. CT on Saturday from the first tee. Tee times for Rounds 3 and 4 will be set after the previous round.
Match Play
The top eight teams at the end of stroke play advance to match play. The quarterfinals begin Tuesday at 8:50 a.m. CT, with the semifinal matches taking place that afternoon starting at 3:15 p.m. CT.
The title match at the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship is set for Wednesday, starting at 4:25 p.m. CT.
Golf Channel Coverage
The Golf Channel will cover the final round of stroke play and all three rounds of match play at the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship.
Round 4 coverage takes place from 5-9 p.m. CT. Live coverage of the quarterfinal matches airs on Tuesday from noon to 2:30 p.m. CT, with the semifinal matches following from 5-9 p.m. CT.
The 2025 national championship match airs live on Wednesday from 5-9 p.m. CT.
Vanderbilt Lineup
1) Jackson Van Paris 2) Wells Williams 3) Ryan Downes 4) Chase Nevins 5) John Broderick
Sub) Ben Loomis
Live Results
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The Field
A total of 30 teams and six individuals will compete at the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa.
No. 16-ranked Vanderbilt will be the tournament’s No. 13 seed. Teams playing in Carlsbad this week are, in order of seed, No. 1 Auburn, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Ole Miss, No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Arizona State, No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 7 Florida, No. 9 Florida State, No. 10 Virginia, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 12 Illinois, No. 14 UCLA, No. 19 BYU, No. 20 South Carolina, No. 21 Pepperdine, No. 22 Georgia, No. 23 Tennessee, No. 24 Texas Tech, No. 26 Georgia Tech, No. 27 South Florida, No. 29 Colorado, No. 31 UNLV, No. 36 Purdue, No. 39 San Diego, No. 40 Wake Forest, No. 42 New Mexico, No. 46 Troy, No. 49 California are No. 93 Augusta.
The individuals are Jacob Modleski (Notre Dame), Hunter Thomson (Michigan), Bryan Kim (Duke), Claes Borregaard (Kennesaw State), Braxton Watts (Utah) and Sakke Siltala (Texas State)
Thomas F. Roush, M.D., and Family Vanderbilt Men’s Golf Head Coach Scott Limbaugh
“The NCAA tournament is all about momentum, being thankful and seizing opportunities. I thought our team did a great job doing that last week at Regionals and that’s our goal this week as well. We have to play with purpose and have a proactive mindset. We know it won’t always be easy, but you have to stay in the fight no matter what. We get to choose what we focus on and that has to be on our process all week. It’s fun to see what our team is becoming and I know they are excited for the week ahead.”
Vanderbilt at the NCAA Championship
This marks the 14th appearance for the Commodores at an NCAA Men’s Golf Championship event. It is Vandy’s 11th-straight season competing at the NCAA Championship.
The Commodores have won stroke play at the NCAA Championship in 2017 and 2022. Vanderbilt has appeared in match play a total of six times. The Dores have advanced to the semifinals in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
Senior Gordon Sargent won the individual national championship as a freshman at the 2022 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, finishing at even par 280. He is the lone Commodore to win the NCAA men’s golf individual national title.
Fans can learn more about Vanderbilt’s history at the NCAA Championship and more in the 2025 Vanderbilt men’s golf postseason prospectus.
Last Time Out
Vanderbilt advanced out of the 2025 NCAA Amherst Regional, as the Dores posted a three-round total of 6-under 834 to finish in second place. Senior Jackson Van Paris captured individual medalist honors with a career-low score of 8-under 202.
Van Paris becomes the second Commodore in school history to win an NCAA Regional event, as he joins William Moll, who captured first place at last year’s NCAA West Lafayette Regional. The senior carded a career-low three-round score of 8-under 202. It is the second-lowest 54-hole score a Vanderbilt golfer has posted at an NCAA Regional, behind Jon Curran’s 201 (-15) 54-hole total at the 2007 NCAA West Regional at Arizona State.
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