COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The NCAA Men's Golf Committee released the field for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships Monday morning and Texas A&M's Adrià Arnaus and Greg Yates have been selected to complete as individuals.
The pair of Aggies will highlight a group of 10 individuals and 13 teams who will tee it up at the NCAA Lubbock Regional which will be held at Texas Tech's Rawls Course.
Arnaus has stood out as Texas A&M's most consistent performer during his junior campaign, appearing in all 13 of the team's events and ending play as A&M's top individual in five tournaments while carding a team-best seven top-20 finishes. The Barcelona, Spain, native leads the squad with a 72.11 scoring average in 36 rounds of competition and has notched 14 rounds of par or lower. Arnaus was selected as the Aggies' Most Valuable Player and Most Improved Player at the program's end of the year banquet.
Yates, meanwhile, has put together a solid senior campaign, playing in 10 events and ranking second on the team with a 72.41 scoring average in 29 competitive rounds. He stands out as one of only two Aggies to capture a tournament win on the season and finished with a team-best four top-10 showings.
The Mansfield, Texas, product fired three consecutive rounds of four-under par 67 to claim medalist honors at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational (201, -12) held at Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, Fla., in late March. His performance garnered Co-SEC Golfer of the Week honors from the league office.
Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted May 14-16. Thirteen teams and ten individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
The teams competing in the Lubbock Regional are (in order of seed) Texas, Texas Tech, Auburn, North Florida, California, Houston, Louisville, Duke, Southeastern Louisiana, Purdue, Georgia State, UC-Irvine and Charleston Southern.
Joining Arnaus and Yates as individuals at the regional are Tomasz Anderson (Jacksonville State), Victor Lange (LA Tech), Tyler McDaniel (Kentucky), David Snyder (Kentucky), Martin Simonsen (UTEP), Matt Mabrey (Tulsa), Jake Sherwin (Florida Gulf Coast) and Nocolas Platret (Texas-Pan American).
The finals will be conducted May 29-June 3 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. South Florida is the host institution for the 2015 championships.