RENO, Nev. - Following a practice round on Sunday, May 11 at Montreux Golf and Country Club in Reno, Nev., the Duke men's golf team turns its attention to the first round of the NCAA Reno Regional on Monday, May 12. The 14-team field is slated to play 54 holes of stroke play, across three days of competition, culminating with the top-five teams, and the top individual on a non-advancing team, punching their tickets to the 2025 NCAA Championship.
Montreux Golf and Country Club will play to a par of 72 and at a distance of 7,550 yards. The course is a Jack Nicklaus Signature Championship course and hosted the PGA TOUR tournament in Reno for 21 years. Duke, ranked 21st nationally, is seeded fourth and is joined by the site's top seed Texas, along with Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi State, BYU, San Diego, Santa Clara, California, Grand Canyon, Sam Houston, East Tennessee State, Central Arkansas and Fairfield.
The Blue Devils' lineup consists of
Bryan Kim,
Ethan Evans,
William Love,
Kelly Chinn and
Luke Sample, while
Daniel Choi will serve as the Blue Devils' designated substitute for the event. Duke tees off of No. 10, beginning at 12 p.m., ET, playing alongside the No. 5-seed Mississippi State and No. 6-seed BYU. Live scoring for the Reno Regional is available on
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Duke enters NCAA Tournament play after a fifth-place finish at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate to close the regular season and an 11th-place finish at the ACC Championship. The team currently ranks fifth in program history with a team stroke average of 285.58 and highlighted the regular season with a sweep of the prestigious Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate, claiming the team title at 28-under, 836, while
Ethan Evans took home individual medalist honors at 9-under, 207.
The Blue Devils will look to advance out of the NCAA Regional round for the second time in three years, after falling just short at the Baton Rouge Regional last season with a seventh-place finish. Evans finished as the low individual on a non-advancing team in Baton Rouge, tying for second place at 6-under, 210, and shot a 4-over, 220, in the first three rounds of the 2024 NCAA Championship.
Sophomore
Bryan Kim currently leads the Blue Devils in stroke average, at 71.33, which is tied for the seventh-best single-season stroke average in program history. The Brookeville, Md., native has also tallied a team-high 13 under-par rounds so far this season and is joined with double-digit under-par rounds by Evans and senior
Kelly Chinn who have 12 and 10, respectively.Â
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