Six PBC Golf Teams Advance to NCAA Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS, IND -- Six Peach Belt Conference golf teams learned that they will get a shot at the national championship as they received bids to the Southeast Regional Tournament. USC Aiken, GCSU, Columbus State, Clayton State, Lander and Armstrong Atlantic State will all compete May 5-7.

USC Aiken received the league’s automatic bid to the NCAAs after winning the PBC Championship last week in Aiken, finishing 10 strokes ahead of Clayton State. The other five teams received at-large bids. Clayton State makes their first NCAA appearance since 2003 while the other five schools competed in the 2007 event.

The six PBC schools are among the 80 teams and 50 individuals selected nationwide to compete. Also competing in the Southeast Region are Newberry and Carson-Newman. Five individuals will also compete, none from PBC schools.

The Southeast Regional will be played alongside the Atlantic Regional for a super regional at the Point Lake Golf Club in Belmont, N.C. The event will be hosted by Belmont Abbey. The top team from each region within the super regional and the top individual not with a team from each super regional (regardless of region) will advance to the finals May 14-17 at the Division II Spring National Championships Festival in Houston, Texas. The finals will be hosted by Rice University and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority.

In addition to the Atlantic Regional winner and the Southeast Regional winner, the top three other teams from the combined super regional standings will also advance to the national finals in Houston.

PBC teams have won the Southeast Regional for six straight years, with Columbus State taking the title in 2007. The Peach Belt Conference is home to seven national championships.