San Diego men’s golf has received an at-large selection to the 2026 NCAA Tournament and will compete in the postseason for the sixth consecutive year, according to a May 6 announcement from the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Committee.
The team’s selection means it will participate in a 54-hole NCAA regional tournament hosted by Oregon State at Trysting Tree Golf Club. The event is scheduled from Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 18, with San Diego seeded seventh among participating teams.
The top five teams and the lowest-scoring individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the NCAA finals. The finals are set to take place at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, running from Friday, May 29 through Thursday, June 3.
San Diego’s invitation follows a season highlighted by winning the R.E.L. Invitational on its home course and finishing first in stroke play at the West Coast Conference Championship. Graduate student Ian Maspat captured the individual title at that event. The team also placed third at the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational and secured fourth-place finishes at The Tindall, The Preserve Collegiate, and Thunderbird Collegiate tournaments.
Two players earned All-West Coast Conference honors during head coach Evan Emerick’s second season leading San Diego: both Maspat and freshman Reed Arnaldo were named to the All-WCC First Team. San Diego has now qualified for every NCAA Tournament since the start of the 2020-2021 season.
The field for this year’s Corvallis Regional includes Arkansas (top seed), Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Charlotte, UCLA, Notre Dame, San Diego (seventh seed), Purdue, Georgia Southern, Oregon State (host), Liberty, Xavier and Sacramento State.
