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Golfers Headed To NCAA Northwest/Washington Regional
April 30, 2025 | Men's Golf
Buffaloes Earn A No. 6 Seed, Matching Their Best In History
BOULDER — The University of Colorado men's golf team is one of a record 11 Big 12 Conference teams to earn berths in one of six NCAA Championship Regionals, as the Buffaloes will participate in the Northwest/Bremerton, Wash. Regional which begins Monday, May 12, off the Sinclair Inlet about 15 miles west of Seattle.
Colorado, ranked No. 32 in the nation in the Clippd/Scoreboard rankings is the No. 6 seed in the regional, in which No. 5 Arizona State is the top seed. The No. 6 seed matches the highest a Buffalo team has ever been seeded in the history of the regionals, along with the 2016-17 team. The regional will take place at Gold Mountain Golf Club on its Olympic Course which features a 7,167-yard, par-72 layout with a 74.9 rating with a slope of 148. The University of Washington is serving as the host institution.
"Obviously we are quite excited about being selected to the NCAA Championships and the regional in Washington," CU head coach Roy Edwards said. "We've had a great year so far and are looking forward to continue working and getting better over the next few weeks. The team is hungry and motivated. It's a great regional site as Gold Mountain is one of the best championship courses in college golf. It will be a great test and will reward five worthy teams.'
The Big 12 is sending the second-most members into the postseason behind the Southeastern Conference (14), with the Atlantic Coast (10), the Big 10 (7) and Mountain West (4) sending the next-most schools; the five conferences account for 46 teams in all. (Cincinnati, Iowa State and West Virginia had an individual selected, thus 14 of the 16 schools from the league have participants). As usual, the regionals have a distinct warmer, southern flavor with only 18 of the 81 team participants located north of the 37th parallel (not including Stanford; think the Colorado-New Mexico border).
Colorado has enjoyed arguably one of – if not its —best seasons in its 101-year history, with one win, six runner-up efforts, a third and a record-tying nine top five finishes. CU is fresh off a sixth place finish in the Big 12 Championship, claimed by Oklahoma State over Arizona State, but a logjam followed. The Buffaloes have a 162-26-2 record against Division I competition, the most wins of any school in the nation and the .858 winning percentage in the NCAA's fourth-best.
Edwards has finalized his squad for the regional, and the starting lineup will feature three seniors, Justin Biwer, Jack Holland and Dylan McDermott, junior Hunter Swanson and sophomores Ty Holbrook and Brandon Knight. Starting eight years ago, the NCAA adopted a format where a team can enter six players, with five designated scorers and the sixth utilized as alternate in the event that a player suffers an injury, illness or is struggling in play. At the recent Big 12 Championships, Biwer tied for 14th, McDermott tied for 17th, Swanson tied for 34th and Holbrook tied for 43rd; Knight "came off the bench" and provided a key pair of 2-over 72's, while Holland did not participate.
Biwer leads the team in stroke average with a 69.50 figure, with McDermott right behind at 69.65; those numbers rank 1-2 in the Big 12 but are also the seventh- and 10th-best in the nation. Swanson has the league's 11th-best average (70.63), with Knight 20th (71.04) and Holbrook (71.33); Holland owns a 71.72 norm, but is just three rounds shy of the minimum number needed to make the list (he has 18).
This is the 24th time that Colorado has been selected as a team to play in the regionals, which were created in 1989 with the help of CU's head coach at the time and NCAA Golf Committee chairman, the late Mark Simpson. CU individuals have been invited to compete on seven other occasions. This is just the third time that three seniors will represent the Buffaloes, previously done in 2002 (with two juniors) and 2018 (with two sophomores).
The remainder of the field, in seeded order, includes No. 8 Florida, No. 17 Utah, No. 20 South Carolina, No. 29 South Florida, No. 41 Charlotte, No. 44 Kansas, No. 54 Colorado State, No. 57 Kansas State, No. 68 Elon, No. 85 Coastal Carolina, No. 130 Oral Roberts and No. 140 Seattle.
The Buffs have lined up this year 19 times against seven teams in the Northwest Regional, going 14-5 with a 34-22-5 mark in individual rounds. CU has been in tournaments with Kansas (3-0), Kansas State (2-0), Oral Roberts (1-0), Seattle (1-0), Utah (4-1), CSU (3-2) and Arizona State (0-2).
There are six regional sites and those competing will play 54 holes with the top five teams along with the top individual who is not a member of those squads earning the right to advance to the NCAA Championship Finals. Those are scheduled for May 23-28 at the Omni La Costa Resort Champions Course in Carlsbad, Calif.
The teams will play a shotgun practice round at 11 a.m. MDT on Sunday, May 11, and the regional will begin at 9 a.m. mountain time on all three competition days. The Buffaloes will be paired with No. 4-seed Utah and No. 5-seed South Carolina and will start on the 10th tee in their bid to return to the NCAA Finals for the second time in three years.
NOTES: All five Buff seniors – Biwer, Holland, McDermott, Tucker Clark and Freddy Eisenbeis – are set to graduate next Thursday. Thus, in Edwards' tenure as head coach, all 42 seniors on his team will have earned their degrees … Gold Mountain has hosted many events, including Washington's annual Husky Invitational, the 2008 and 2015 NCAA regionals (when CU was sent to Ohio and Indiana), the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur, and the 2022 Mountain West Championship … That 2001-02 CU team is the only one that has ever played in UW's Husky Invitational at Gold Mountain, which was a 6-score-5 event; Ben Portie tied for 11th (221, +5), but was in third place after 36 holes; CU finished eighth out of 10 … The course record is a 7-under 65 and boasts tree-lined fairways but is open off the tee; hilly at times, there is a lot of mounding with large collection areas around every green … According to AI, "The Seattle area does see some sunshine in May, with an average of 7 hours and 36 minutes per day. The average high temperature is 63 degrees, and while not overly wet, May can still see some rain."
Colorado, ranked No. 32 in the nation in the Clippd/Scoreboard rankings is the No. 6 seed in the regional, in which No. 5 Arizona State is the top seed. The No. 6 seed matches the highest a Buffalo team has ever been seeded in the history of the regionals, along with the 2016-17 team. The regional will take place at Gold Mountain Golf Club on its Olympic Course which features a 7,167-yard, par-72 layout with a 74.9 rating with a slope of 148. The University of Washington is serving as the host institution.
"Obviously we are quite excited about being selected to the NCAA Championships and the regional in Washington," CU head coach Roy Edwards said. "We've had a great year so far and are looking forward to continue working and getting better over the next few weeks. The team is hungry and motivated. It's a great regional site as Gold Mountain is one of the best championship courses in college golf. It will be a great test and will reward five worthy teams.'
The Big 12 is sending the second-most members into the postseason behind the Southeastern Conference (14), with the Atlantic Coast (10), the Big 10 (7) and Mountain West (4) sending the next-most schools; the five conferences account for 46 teams in all. (Cincinnati, Iowa State and West Virginia had an individual selected, thus 14 of the 16 schools from the league have participants). As usual, the regionals have a distinct warmer, southern flavor with only 18 of the 81 team participants located north of the 37th parallel (not including Stanford; think the Colorado-New Mexico border).
Colorado has enjoyed arguably one of – if not its —best seasons in its 101-year history, with one win, six runner-up efforts, a third and a record-tying nine top five finishes. CU is fresh off a sixth place finish in the Big 12 Championship, claimed by Oklahoma State over Arizona State, but a logjam followed. The Buffaloes have a 162-26-2 record against Division I competition, the most wins of any school in the nation and the .858 winning percentage in the NCAA's fourth-best.
Edwards has finalized his squad for the regional, and the starting lineup will feature three seniors, Justin Biwer, Jack Holland and Dylan McDermott, junior Hunter Swanson and sophomores Ty Holbrook and Brandon Knight. Starting eight years ago, the NCAA adopted a format where a team can enter six players, with five designated scorers and the sixth utilized as alternate in the event that a player suffers an injury, illness or is struggling in play. At the recent Big 12 Championships, Biwer tied for 14th, McDermott tied for 17th, Swanson tied for 34th and Holbrook tied for 43rd; Knight "came off the bench" and provided a key pair of 2-over 72's, while Holland did not participate.
Biwer leads the team in stroke average with a 69.50 figure, with McDermott right behind at 69.65; those numbers rank 1-2 in the Big 12 but are also the seventh- and 10th-best in the nation. Swanson has the league's 11th-best average (70.63), with Knight 20th (71.04) and Holbrook (71.33); Holland owns a 71.72 norm, but is just three rounds shy of the minimum number needed to make the list (he has 18).
This is the 24th time that Colorado has been selected as a team to play in the regionals, which were created in 1989 with the help of CU's head coach at the time and NCAA Golf Committee chairman, the late Mark Simpson. CU individuals have been invited to compete on seven other occasions. This is just the third time that three seniors will represent the Buffaloes, previously done in 2002 (with two juniors) and 2018 (with two sophomores).
The remainder of the field, in seeded order, includes No. 8 Florida, No. 17 Utah, No. 20 South Carolina, No. 29 South Florida, No. 41 Charlotte, No. 44 Kansas, No. 54 Colorado State, No. 57 Kansas State, No. 68 Elon, No. 85 Coastal Carolina, No. 130 Oral Roberts and No. 140 Seattle.
The Buffs have lined up this year 19 times against seven teams in the Northwest Regional, going 14-5 with a 34-22-5 mark in individual rounds. CU has been in tournaments with Kansas (3-0), Kansas State (2-0), Oral Roberts (1-0), Seattle (1-0), Utah (4-1), CSU (3-2) and Arizona State (0-2).
There are six regional sites and those competing will play 54 holes with the top five teams along with the top individual who is not a member of those squads earning the right to advance to the NCAA Championship Finals. Those are scheduled for May 23-28 at the Omni La Costa Resort Champions Course in Carlsbad, Calif.
The teams will play a shotgun practice round at 11 a.m. MDT on Sunday, May 11, and the regional will begin at 9 a.m. mountain time on all three competition days. The Buffaloes will be paired with No. 4-seed Utah and No. 5-seed South Carolina and will start on the 10th tee in their bid to return to the NCAA Finals for the second time in three years.
NOTES: All five Buff seniors – Biwer, Holland, McDermott, Tucker Clark and Freddy Eisenbeis – are set to graduate next Thursday. Thus, in Edwards' tenure as head coach, all 42 seniors on his team will have earned their degrees … Gold Mountain has hosted many events, including Washington's annual Husky Invitational, the 2008 and 2015 NCAA regionals (when CU was sent to Ohio and Indiana), the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur, and the 2022 Mountain West Championship … That 2001-02 CU team is the only one that has ever played in UW's Husky Invitational at Gold Mountain, which was a 6-score-5 event; Ben Portie tied for 11th (221, +5), but was in third place after 36 holes; CU finished eighth out of 10 … The course record is a 7-under 65 and boasts tree-lined fairways but is open off the tee; hilly at times, there is a lot of mounding with large collection areas around every green … According to AI, "The Seattle area does see some sunshine in May, with an average of 7 hours and 36 minutes per day. The average high temperature is 63 degrees, and while not overly wet, May can still see some rain."
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