Tournament: NCAA Morgan Hill Regional - Individual Participants (Matthew Manganello, Matthew Sutherland)
Format: Stroke play/54 holes (18 each day)
Host: San Jose State
Dates: May 15-17 (Monday-Wednesday)
Golf Course: The Institute Golf Club (Par: 72, Yardage: 7,561)
Location: Morgan Hill, Calif.
Live Scoring: GolfStat.com
Schedule of Events
Monday, May 15 - First Round, 10:04 a.m. PT tee time off #1
Tuesday, May 16 - Second Round, TBA tee time off #1
Wednesday, May 17 - Third Round, TBA tee time off #1
NCAA Championship Breakdown
Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted May 15-17. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The top five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
Team and individual medalist titles will be decided May 26-31 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Arizona State and The Thunderbirds are the hosts for the 2023 championships.
MORGAN HILL REGIONAL
(Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution)
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Pepperdine
2. Florida State
3. Mississippi State
4. Arizona
5. Louisville
6. Baylor
7. Missouri
8. Brigham Young (West Coast Conference)
9. NC State
10. California
11. Charlotte (Conference USA)
12. Grand Canyon (Western Athletic Conference)
13. Northern Colorado (Big Sky Conference)
Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1. Matthew Manganello, Fresno State
2. Matthew Sutherland, Fresno State
3. Riley Lewis, Loyola Marymount University
4. Javier Barcos, Utah
5. Mahanth Chirravuri, Southern California
6. Julien Paltrinieri, Santa Clara
7. Caleb Shetler, San Jose State
8. Pono Yanagi, Washington State
9. Jackson Rivera, Southern California
10. Casey Leebrick, Sacramento State
Notes
Matthew Manganello and Matthew Sutherland represent the eighth and ninth individual regional qualifiers in program history.
The two join Grant Doverspike and Bhavik Patel (2009) as the only other Bulldog teammates to compete together at a regional as individual qualifiers.
As the No. 1 and No. 2 seeded individuals in the regional, they will play together in the opening round.
This past week, Manganello and Sutherland were selected as the fourth and fifth Fresno State golfers to earn All-Mountain West honors. They are the first Bulldogs to be placed on the postseason team together in the same season year.
In 10 tournaments this season, the two have totaled 10 Top-10 results with five apiece.
Manganello ranks No. 84 according to GolfStat and holds a 69.93 scoring average.
This year, Manganello became the first Bulldog to earn two medalist honors in the same season since Nick Watney in 2002 with wins at the Saint Mary's Invitational and the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate.
The junior also twice posted a career-low 203, most recently coming at the Mountain West Championship.
Ranked No. 110, Sutherland holds a 70.24 scoring average on the year.
Sutherland recorded a team-best four Top-5 finishes. His highest came at the El Macero Classic, placing third last month.
Sutherland opened the season with a career-low 202 at the Nick Watney Invitational, the third-lowest 54-hole score for the Bulldogs in the last 30 years.