Thanks to a Top 5 finish at the West Lafayette Regional in Indiana, the Arizona Wildcats men's golf team is advancing to the NCAA Championship for the second time in three years.
No. 11-ranked Arizona finished the three-day event at Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on Wednesday and placed fourth after shooting 3 under par as a team, edging fifth-place New Mexico (-2) by a shot. The Wildcats finished behind Vanderbilt (-24), host Purdue (-11) and Florida (-4). The aforementioned teams are all moving on to the NCAA Championship next week.
Arizona senior Sam Sommerhauser finished 2 under par and tied for 14th place on the individual leaderboard. Junior Tiger Christensen, a Hamburg, Germany native, tied for 18th after shooting 1 under. Czech Republic product Filip Jakubcik, who won the Western Intercollegiate earlier this season, shot 2 over par and ended the regional tied for 27th.
The Wildcats are one of four Pac-12 teams advancing to the NCAA Championships, along with Utah, California and Stanford. Arizona State missed the cut by six shots at the Rancho Santa Fe Regional in San Diego.
The NCAA Championships are at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, from May 24-29.
