Cowboys, Sooners take aim at NCAA Championship starting Friday
Oklahoma State will be gunning for its 12th national championship and the Oklahoma Sooners for their third when the 30-team NCAA Championship begins Friday at Omni La Costa’s North Course in Carlsbad, Calif.
The sixth-seeded Sooners are scheduled to tee off at 2:12 p.m. CT on Friday and 8:52 a.m. CT on Saturday. After 54 holes, the field will be cut from 30 teams to 15, with the top eight advancing to match play following Monday’s final round of stroke play. Match play on Tuesday and Wednesday will determine the national champion.
The second-seed Cowboys will begin play on Friday at 1:50 a.m. (CST) and will be grouped with Auburn and Ole Miss. Those three teams will get play underway on Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
Oklahoma coach Ryan Hybl will stick with the same lineup that delivered a regional title. Jase Summy leads the way in the top spot, followed by Ryder Cowan at No. 2. Drew Goodman slots in at No. 3, with Clark Van Gaalen and PJ Maybank III rounding out the lineup. Matthew Troutman will serve as Oklahoma’s substitute for the week.
OSU, coming off of four consecutive tournament victories including the Urbana Regional, will start Ethan Fang, Preston Stout, Eric Lee, Gaven Lane and Felip Fahlberg-Johnsson with John Wild in reserve.
The Sooners are making their 14th consecutive appearance at the national tournament, the second-longest active streak in the country behind Texas (18). The 2025 championships marks the seventh straight season OU has earned a top-10 seed at the event.
Oklahoma enters the NCAA Championships with five team titles this season — tied for the second most in the country — and a 144-28-4 head-to-head record. Ranked No. 6 nationally, the Sooners have recorded wins over every team ranked ahead of them. Led by All-SEC selections Jase Summy (First Team) and Drew Goodman (Second Team), OU brings a deep, veteran lineup to California with more than 415 combined collegiate rounds of experience.
Oklahoma stormed through the final nine holes at Poplar Grove Golf Club at 12-under par, leapfrogging Vanderbilt and Tennessee to claim its fifth regional crown under head coach Ryan Hybl (2015, 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025). The Sooners are one of five teams advancing from Amherst to the NCAA Championships, slated for May 23–28 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
Ryan Hybl, Oklahoma’s winningest coach, has led the Sooners to 13 straight NCAA Finals, a 2017 national title and 49 tournament wins, fourth most among active coaches. Since taking over in 2009, he’s coached 14 Sooners to 30 All-America honors and won three conference titles. The 2022 Dave Williams National Coach of the Year, Hybl was inducted into the GCAA Hall of Fame in 2024.
OSU has won 11 NCAA titles and has produced nine individual national champions with its most recent national championship coming in 2018 at Karsten Creek.
OSU’s first NCAA crown came in 1963 under Labron Harris. Former head coach Mike Holder captured eight titles (1976, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995 and 2000). Mike McGraw won the crown in 2006, while Alan Bratton won his first in 2018, giving all four coaches in program history a title.
OSU has produced 17 runner-up finishes after placing second in 2014 at Prairie Dunes Country Club.
THE FIELD BY CHAMPIONSHIP SEED
- Auburn – Auburn Regional champion
2. Oklahoma State – Urbana Regional co-champion; Big 12 champion
3. Ole Miss
4. Texas
5. Arizona State
6. Oklahoma – Amherst Regional champion
7. Florida – Bremerton Regional champion; SEC champion
8. Florida State – Tallahassee Regional champion
9. Virginia – ACC champion
10. Texas A&M
11. Illinois – Urbana Regional co-champion
12. UCLA – Big Ten champion
13. Vanderbilt
14. BYU – Reno Regional champion
15. South Carolina
16. Pepperdine – WCC champion
17. Georgia
18. Tennessee
19. Texas Tech
20. Georgia Tech
21. South Florida
22. Colorado
23. UNLV
24. Purdue
25. San Diego
26. Wake Forest
27. New Mexico
28. Troy
29. California
30. Augusta – Southland champion
THE COURSE
For the second consecutive year, the North Course at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa will play home to the championship. The par-72, 7,538-yard course is the longest course for a championship since the 2019 title was contested at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. Located just north of San Diego in Carlsbad, Calif., the North Course was ranked as one of the top-100 golf courses in America in 2020. Redesigned by Gil Hanse specifically for the NCAA Championships, the new home of college golf through at least 2026, the North Course opened in 1965 and served as the host of the PGA TOUR’s Mercedes Championships from 1969-1998 and has hosted the WCC-Accenture Match Play Championships eight times.
Hanse and his team made significant design changes to the course with the NCAA’s match-play format in mind, aiming to create a layout that challenges the best players in the game. A key feature of the new design is the increased number of risk-reward decisions players must make during their rounds. Notable changes include a drivable par-4 at hole 11, a repositioned green on the par-3 16th hole inspired by Augusta National’s famous 12th hole, and a formidable finishing hole: the par-5 18th, now stretching over 600 yards from the back tee with water hazards on both sides of the fairway.
FORMAT
The NCAA Championships feature 72 holes of stroke play, with the field cut from 30 to 15 teams after 54 holes. Following Monday’s final round, the top eight teams advance to match play, and the individual champion is crowned. Match play on Tuesday and Wednesday will decide the team national champion.
TV SCHEDULE
Golf Channel will provide live coverage of the final three days of the championship, showcasing the best collegiate golf in the country. The NCAA will crown an individual champion on Monday and a team champion on Wednesday.
Monday, May 26: 5-9 p.m. CT (Individual National Championship)
Tuesday, May 27: 12-2:30 p.m. CT / 5-9 p.m. CT (Match Play)
Wednesday, May 28: 5-9 p.m. CT (Match Play)
NCAA Championship · May 23-28 · Carlsbad, Calif.
Venue: Omni La Costa Resort & Spa • Par 72 • 7,528 Yards
Live Stats: scoreboard.clippd.com
TV: Golf Channel (Monday — 5-9 p.m. CST, Tuesday — 12-2:30 p.m. CST, 5-9 p.m. CST, Wednesday — 5-9 p.m. CST)