Men's Golf Selected To The NCAA Championship For The 10th Consecutive Season
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.- The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2026 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships.
After finishing as the Collegiate Conference of the South runner-up, Huntingdon has received an at-large bid to the tournament, marking the 10th straight year the Hawks have qualified.
The championships will be held May 12-15 at Mission Resort & Club in Howey-in-the Hills, Florida, and will be hosted by Oglethorpe University and Greater Orlando Sports Commission. The team and individual champions will be determined after 72 holes of play or the conclusion of the last fully completed round. First and second round competition will be played simultaneously on El Campeon and Las Colinas courses with the final two rounds played on El Campeon. After 36 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 18 teams and top six individuals not on one of those teams.
Forty-three teams and ten individuals not on one of those teams, were selected to participate in the 2026 championships for a total of 225 participants. Thirty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the championships. The final nine berths were at-large selections, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion or independent institutions. The ten individuals are selected from the remaining players who have not qualified with a team.
Listed below are the teams and individuals selected for the 2026 championships:
Conferences Receiving Automatic Qualification Berths (34)
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference – Mount Aloysius
American Rivers Conference – Dubuque
American Southwest Conference – Mary Hardin-Baylor
Centennial Conference – Franklin & Marshall
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Illinois Wesleyan Collegiate Conference of the South - Piedmont
Conference of New England –Hartford
Empire 8 – St. John Fisher
Great Northeast Athletic Conference – New England College
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Transylvania
Landmark Conference – Drew
Liberty League – Rochester (New York)
Little East – Southern Maine
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference – Marymount (Virginia) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Calvin
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth – York (Pennsylvania) Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom – Stevens Institute of Technology Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Bethel (Minnesota) New England Small College Athletic Conference – Williams
North Atlantic Conference – SUNY Delhi
North Coast Athletic Conference – John Carroll
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference - Aurora
Northwest Conference - Willamette
Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Guilford
Presidents' Athletic Conference – Allegheny
At-large Berths (9) (Alphabetical by institution name)
Babson
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
Gustavus Adolphus
Huntingdon
Kenyon
Oglethorpe
Trinity (Texas)
Washington and Lee
Methodist is the defending national champion, winning the 2025 team title at Midvale Country Club in Penfield, NY. The victory marked the 15th title for the Monarchs, and they earned back-to back titles for the first time since 1998 and 1999. Lynchburg's Edward Coffren won the individual championship, shooting a tournament-best 280 over four days of competition.
For more information about the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships, log on to NCAA.com.