East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's men's golf team will begin play in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional on Monday, May 13 at the Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The Spartans are making their seventh NCAA Regional appearance in the last nine years. Michigan State is seeded No. 11 in the regional and were one of 13 teams selected to compete at Finley Golf Club on the campus of the University of North Carolina.

The Chapel Hill Regional is one of six regionals being held nationally, with 81 teams competing. The top five teams advance to the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, Calif.

Michigan State tees off at 8:55 a.m., playing alongside Clemson and Ball State.

"It's a great honor for our program to get the chance to play in an NCAA Regional and our guys are really looking forward to the opportunity to play against the best in the country," Head Coach Casey Lubahn said. "We've had a great spring season after a tough first couple of months and we hope that our best golf is right ahead of us. We have a lot of work to do but we have a veteran group that has been through this before and I think our guys are ready to get out there and show that we can compete among the best."

NCAA CHAPEL HILL REGIONAL
Dates: Monday, May 13 – Wednesday, May 15
Course: Finley Golf Club, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Par/Yardage: 70 / 7,084
Format: Stroke play, 54 holes / Play five, count four
Live Stats: Golfstat
Schedule:  Monday – 18 holes starting with a 9 a.m. shotgun start
Tuesday – 18 holes starting with a 9 a.m. shotgun start
Wednesday – 18 holes starting with a 9 a.m. shotgun start

MSU LINEUP
No. 1 – Ashton McCulloch
No. 2 – August Meekhof
No. 3 – Drew Hackett
No. 4 – Brad Smithson
No. 5 – Lorenzo Pinili

FINLEY GOLF CLUB
Dedicated in October 2023 after a yearlong restoration, the Finley Golf Club is located on Finley Golf Course Road (500 Finley Golf Course Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514) on the Carolina campus. The most recent renovation was led by Love Golf Design and Davis Love III, who played for the Tar Heels from 1982 to 1986, company president Mark Love, also a Carolina graduate and former Tar Heel golfer, and lead architect Scot Sherman.

THE FIELD (NCAA ranking)
The 13 teams competing in the Chapel Hill Regional include (in order of seed): 1. North Carolina; 2. Alabama; 3. Georgia Tech; 4. East Tennessee State; 5. Northwestern; 6. Baylor; 7. VCU; 8. LMU; 9. Long Beach State; 10. Clemson; 11. Michigan State; 12. Ball State; 13. Howard.

RESULTS
Live scoring for the event is available through Golfstat.

MICHIGAN STATE IN THE NCAA REGIONALS
Michigan State is playing in its third-straight NCAA Regional and the seventh in the last eight years. The Spartans have finished in seventh place three times in three of its last four appearances. Last year, MSU finished in seventh place at the Bath Regional at 1-under par 851 (272-285-294), tying a program record with a 12-under par 272 in the first round. The Spartans also finished in seventh place at the 2018 Columbus Regional and in seventh at the 2019 Pullman Regional.

ABOUT THE SPARTANS
Michigan State is coming off a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships in Columbus, Ohio in late April. Over the last two months of the season, MSU has posted six-straight top-five finishes, with runner-up showings at the Hoosier Collegiate and the Illini Spring Collegiate.

Junior Ashton McCulloch, an All-Big Ten Second Team selection, has been the team's top finisher eight times this year, including the last five events and last weekend when he finished in third place at the Big Ten Championships. McCulloch leads the team with a 70.97 scoring average and has four top-5 finishes and six among the top-10. Senior August Meekhof is second on the team with a 72.47 average and has four top-20 finishes during the spring, including a tie for 10th place at Illinois at 5-over par 218 and a tie for fifth place at the Big Ten Championships. Graduate student Drew Hackett is third on the team with a 72.87 scoring average and has five top-20 finishes, including a tie for sixth place at the Johnnie-O at Sea Island at 7-under par 209. Graduate student Bradley Smithson carries a 73.06 average, including a season-best 10th place finish at the Illini Spring Collegiate (5-over par 218) and three-straight top-20 finishes to close out the regular season.