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Oklahoma golf: Sooners No. 1 overall seed in NCAA Men’s Championship

By Chip Rouse

PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA - MAY 01: Sam Burns of the United States plays a shot from a bunker on the eighth hole during the third round of the Valspar Championship on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort on May 01, 2021 in Palm Harbor, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA - MAY 01: Sam Burns of the United States plays a shot from a bunker on the eighth hole during the third round of the Valspar Championship on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort on May 01, 2021 in Palm Harbor, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) /
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The No. 1-ranked men’s Oklahoma golf team is headed to the Albuquerque Regional as the top overall seed in the 2021 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship.

Oklahoma remained No. 1 in the national rankings despite finishing second to Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Championship, losing by a single stroke.

The Sooners recorded four regular-season tournament wins in the 2020-21 season, the most in a single season in program history. The OU men have finished in the top five in 24 of the last 25 tournaments.

This is the third consecutive postseason the Sooners have been awarded a No. 1 seed and the team’s 10th consecutive year appearing in NCAA regional competition.

The Albuquerque Regional, to be contested May 17-19, is one of six NCAA Regional sites. Each site consists of 14 teams in a 54-hole tournament. The Sooners will be playing at the par-72 University of New Mexico Championship Course in Albuquerque.

The five teams with the lowest 54-hole scores and the low individual not on a qualifying team will go to the NCAA Championship May 28-June 2 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In addition to No. 1 Oklahoma, the top-five seeds at the Albuquerque Regional are No. 12 Arizona State, No. 14 Texas A&M, No. 22 Texas Tech from the Big 12, and No. 29 New Mexico.

The Sooners, featuring four All-Americans, are the only team in the country that has appeared in every NCAA Championship match-play round since 2016. OU won the national title in 2017. The Sooners were eliminated in the quarterfinals in the last NCAA Golf Championship, held in 2020.

Oklahoma is joined by six other Big 12 schools who are headed to the NCAA Regionals: Oklahoma State and Baylor (Stillwater, Oklahoma), Texas (Noblesville, Indiana), Texas Tech (Albuquerque), and TCU and Kansas (Tallahassee, Florida).

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