CU men’s golfers make final-round run, but fall short of returning to NCAA Division I national tournament
By Gary Baines
The University of Colorado men’s golf team, having gotten a taste of qualifying a full team for the NCAA Division I national championships twice in the past three seasons, wanted to extend their 2025-26 campaign another couple of weeks.
But though the Buffs made a run at one of the final national team berths available on Tuesday at the NCAA regional in Bryan, Texas, a third trip to nationals in four years wasn’t to be.
With five team spots to nationals up for grabs, CU moved within four strokes of the fifth spot during Tuesday’s 36-hole day at regionals, but ultimately fell seven shots shy of the mark, in seventh place out of 14 teams.
Tennessee, ranked 16th in the nation among men’s DI teams, locked up the fifth and final spot at 18 under par for three rounds. The Vols were joined in earning national berths at the site by No. 4 Texas (-45), No. 27 Texas A&M (-40), Chattanooga (-23) and No. 9 North Carolina (-19)
CU, ranked No. 54, ended up at 11 under, two strokes behind sixth-place TCU.
The Buffs put two players in the top-20 out of the field of more than 70 golfers — Brandon Knight (14th place, 6 under par) and Ty Holbrook (17th place, 4 under).
For all the scores from the Bryan Regional, CLICK HERE.
— Elsewhere in NCAA Division I Golf: The University of Denver women finished second out of 10 teams on Sunday at the Golfweek National Golf Invitational in Maricopa, Ariz. DU (17 over par) ended up eight strokes behind champion Wyoming. DU’s Anna Neumayer (74-72-70) placed third individually and Kaitlin Zingler (73-72-72) fourth. Wyoming’s Elle Higgins (71-73-73) and Meghan Vogt (73-68-77) — like Zingler Colorado residents — finished fourth and seventh, respectively. SCORES
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com