Texas wins 2022 DI men’s golf national championship

There will probably be a brand new champion in DI males’s golf this season. Arizona State proceed to roll as they take down Pepperdine, defending champs, 4-1. Shortly after, Texas took down top-seeded Vanderbilt, 3-1-1. 

The Solar Devils wanted simply their first three to win the match. Mason Andersen received the primary level after going 19 holes with Pepperdine’s Dylan Menante. David Puig claimed the second on the seventeenth after Joey Vrzich could not make a putt to increase the match.

After a emphatic 7-and-5 win towards Oklahoma’s Chris Gotterup within the quarterfinals, it regarded like Preston Summerhays was going to roll to a different easy win. Summerhays was up 5 with after 10, however Joe Highsmith confirmed that tenacity we noticed in 2021 and introduced the match all the way in which all the way down to the 18th earlier than the freshman lastly closed out the match. 

Just a few hours after the Solar Devils closed out the Waves, Texas was in a position to knock off Vanderbilt. The Longhorns took the primary level due to Cole Hammer profitable 4 and three over the 2022 particular person champion, Gordon Sargent. That is the second time Hammer has defeated a particular person champion. In 2019, he beat Matt Wolff to assist the Longhorns advance within the match play bracket. 

The Commodores responded with a degree from William Moll, who took down Parker Coody on 18. The ultimate two factors for Texas got here from Pierceson Coody and Travis Vick. Each gamers by no means trailed of their matches. Coody received 3 and a couple of, whereas Vick completed 4 and three to ship his crew to the nationwide championship.

Arizona State has by no means been to the finals for the reason that DI males’s golf championship switched to a match-play format in 2009. This will probably be Texas’ first time within the title match since 2019, once they misplaced to Stanford. The final time Texas received the nationwide championship was in 2012 when Jordan Spieth assist elevate the Longhorns to the title. 

You possibly can watch the championship match Wednesday, June 1 at 5 p.m. ET stay on Golf Channel. Click on or faucet right here from the event.