HOUSTON \u2014 The Rice Men’s Golf team enters the NCAA Athens Regional as the 10th seed, played May 18-20 at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga.
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\nTEAM FIELD
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\nRice, who is ranked 62nd in the latest Scoreboard rankings, will be joined by No. 1 seed Auburn, No. 2 seed Illinois, No. 3 seed Vanderbilt, No. 4 seed BYU, No. 5 seed Georgia, No. 6 seed Louisville, No. 7 seed Kansas, No. 8 seed Northwestern, No. 9 seed College of Charleston, No. 11 seed Southern Miss, No. 12 seed Harvard, and No. 13 seed Howard.
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\nJUSTIN EMIL QUOTABLE
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\n“We are thrilled to be selected for regionals but our goal since Day One has been to get to Nationals. This is the next step toward that goal. We have to be disciplined and in the moment this week to advance.”
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\nHOW TO WATCH<\/p>\n
Fans can watch the NCAA Athens Regional on Babygrande.com or by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>. The Owls will tee off at 8:25 a.m. CT from hole No. 10. Rice will compete in groups with student-athletes from Southern Miss and Harvard. Tuesday and Wednesday tee times and pairings will depend on results following the previous round. With a top five finish at the NCAA Athens Regional, Rice will advance to the NCAA Championship, played May 29-June 3 at the Omni La Costa Golf Resort in Carlsbad, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The Rice Men’s Golf team enters the NCAA Athens Regional as the 10th seed, played May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-676288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLIVE SCORING
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\nFans can follow live scoring of the NCAA Athens Regional by visiting Scoreboard.com or by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>.
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\nLINEUP
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\nLukas Boandl<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 1 position \u2026 ranked 93rd in the latest Scoreboard rankings \u2026 American Conference Golfer of the Week (4\/16) \u2026 leads the team with a 70.53 stroke average \u2026 school record 23 rounds of par or better and 13 rounds in the 60’s \u2026 team-high 127 birdies \u2026 three top five, four top ten, and eight top 20 finishes \u2026 is third in school history in career stroke average (72.60) and average vs. par (0.98) \u2026 career leader in rounds of par or better (61) and rounds in the 60’s (27), second in top five finishes (6) and top 20 finishes (20), and ninth in top 10 finishes (7) \u2026 tied for first at the Trinity Forest Invitational at -12 before falling on the second hole of a playoff \u2026 opened with consecutive 66’s before closing with a 69 \u2026 set the school record for 36-hole score (132), and his 54-hole score of 201 is the second lowest in school history \u2026 runner-up finish at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), finishing -8 and helping the Owls to the team title \u2026 tied for fifth at the Mossy Oak Collegiate (4\/13-14) \u2026 fired a second round 65, tying the second lowest round in school history \u2026 tied for ninth at the American Championship (4\/27-29), finishing -8 after rounds of 66-68 … tied for 12th-place at the Argent Financial Classic (9\/7-9) \u2026 tied for 11th at the Cabo Collegiate \u2026 tied for 13th at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational (10\/25) \u2026\u00a0 2025 AAC All-Conference … 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional participant.
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\nDaniel<\/a> Zou\u00a0\u2013 No. 2 position \u2026 One of four golfers to participate in all 11 team tournaments … American All-Conference … second on the team with a 71.66 stroke average \u2026 second with 19 rounds of par or better and third with 104 birdies \u2026 seven rounds in the 60’s \u2026 tied for fifth at the American Championship (4\/27-29), finishing -11 … closed the tournament with a bogey-free eight-under 64, the second lowest round in school history … tied for seventh at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30) finishing at -5 \u2026 tied for 11th at the All-American Intercollegiate (3\/16-17) \u2026 tied for 15th-place at the Argent Financial Classic \u2026 2025 AAC All-Conference … 2025 AAC Freshman of the Year … AAC Golfer of the Week (3\/5) \u2026 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional participant.
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\nHenry Daly<\/a> \u2013 No. 3 position \u2026 transfer from Virginia \u2026 in his second stint at Rice, where he began his collegiate career as a freshman in 2022 \u2026 third on the team with a 72.89 stroke average \u2026 third with 16 rounds of par or better \u2026 second on the team with 122 birdies \u2026 six rounds in the 60’s \u2026 had a career-best tie for fourth-place finish at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), where he tied his career-low round 67 in the first round \u2026 tied for eighth-place at the Cabo Collegiate (3\/1-3), where he opened with rounds of 69-68 \u2026 his 54-hole score of 208 was a career-low \u2026 tied for 18th-place at the Trinity Forest Invitational (10\/5-7).
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\nReggie Zhu<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 4 position \u2026 participated in 10 tournaments … averaging 73.17 strokes per round \u2026 13 rounds of par or better \u2026 is sixth in school history in career stroke average (73.36) and average vs. par (1.80) \u2026 tied for 12th-place at the Trinity Forest Invitational (10\/7-9), where he fired a season-low 67 in the final round \u2026 tied for 13th at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), where he helped the Owls to the team title … finished in 13th-place at the American Championship (4\/27-29) … began the tournament with a 66-69 to become the first golfer in Rice history to start the conference championship with back-to-back rounds in the 60’s .. the 66 tied his career-best, while his 36-hole score of 135 was a career-low.
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\nRaines Watson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 5 position \u2026 averaging 73.75 strokes per round \u2026 13 rounds of par or better \u2026 three rounds in the 60’s \u2026 has recorded 99 birdies \u2026 tied for fourth-place at the Bentwater Intercollegiate (2\/9-10), closing with a pair of 70’s \u2026 12th-place at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30) \u2026 set a season-best for low 54-hole score (212) at the Hal Williams Collegiate (2\/16-17) \u2026 fired a season-best 67 in the first round of the Cabo Collegiate (3\/1).
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\nDavis Byrd<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Substitute \u2026 has a 74.78 stroke average \u2026 six rounds of par or better \u2026 has 45 birdies on the year \u2026 tied for 19th-place at the Colin Montgomerie HCU Invitational (3\/2-3) \u2026 tied for 23rd-place at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic after opening with rounds of 72-71 (10\/29-30) \u2026 tied for 28th-place at the All-American Individual (3\/16-17) \u2026 tied for 32nd-place at the Bentwater Intercollegiate (2\/9-10).
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\nPAIRINGS<\/p>\n
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\nUP NEXT<\/p>\n