OFF THE TEE

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS LINEUP
1. Collin Morikawa
2. KK Limbhasut
3. Kaiwen Liu
4. Sebastian Crampton
5. James Song
6. Ben Doyle

TEAM NOTES
Cal has finished in the top five in 10 of its 12 stroke-play events in 2018-19. Cal has two victories (Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational, The Farms Invitational), a trio of second-place showings (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Southwestern Invitational, Western Intercollegiate), two third-place finishes (OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational, Pac-12 Championships), two fourth-place efforts (The Goodwin, NCAA Myrtle Beach Regional) and one fifth-place finish (Southern Highlands Collegiate). The Golden Bears were also eighth at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational and 11th at the Carpet Capital Collegiate.

NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE COLLIN MORIKAWA
Pac-12 individual medalist Collin Morikawa is a bonified National Player of the Year candidate and the nation's third-ranked golfer according to both Golfstat and Golfweek/Sagarin. He is also third nationally with a 68.65 stroke average that is within 0.07 strokes of national leader Matthew Wolff (68.58) and 0.06 behind second-place Viktor Hovland (68.59), as well as 0.03 strokes ahead of Morikawa's all-time single-season NCAA record of 68,68 he set in 2017-18. Morikawa has finished tied for 14th or better in all 11 of his events in 2018-19 while he was in the top five for each of his first eight and the top seven for each of his first 10.

SENIOR TRIO
Cal has three seniors in its NCAA Championships lineup – Collin Morikawa, KK Limbhasut, Sebastian Crampton – that are returning to the NCAA's for the first time since their only previous appearance in Eugene in 2016. The trio has combined for 11 career victories (Morikawa 5, Limbhasut 4, Crampton 2) while compiling cumulative totals of 144 events, 446 rounds and 31630 strokes. All three graduated from Cal on May 18.

INDIVIDUAL MEDALISTS
Collin Morikawa and Sebastian Crampton have been Cal's individual medalists in 2018-19. Both of Morikawa's wins came in the spring at The Farms Invitational and the Pac-12 Championships while Crampton was the individual medalist at the Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational to wrap up the fall schedule.   

FIRST NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE HELM FOR WALTER CHUN
Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf Walter Chun will be making his ninth appearance for Cal at the NCAA Championships but his first in his current role at the helm of the club. Chun previously appeared as a player (2000), administrative assistant (2004) and six times as the associate head coach (2010, '11, '12, '13, '14, '16).   

FIVE RECOGNIZED WITH PAC-12 HONORS
Five Cal players have been honored by the Pac-12 in 2018-19 including four that were named to the All-Pac-12 team led by the selection of Collin Morikawa as the Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Year. Morikawa became the second Cal player to earn the honor following Michael Kim in 2012-13. Sebastian Crampton joined Morikawa on the first-team for the first time while KK Limbhasut was a second-team selection and James Song was on the conference's All-Freshman squad. Kaiwen Liu was a first-team Pac-12 All-Academic selection while Crampton and Morikawa were honorable mention. Morikawa also won the Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month honor twice (September 2018, April 2019) while Crampton captured the honor in December of 2018. 

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

2019 INFORMATION 
Dates (Opening Tee Times)
Friday-Wednesday, May 24-29 (4:50 am/4:50 am/4:50 am/9 am/5 am/12:25 pm)

Hosts
NCAA/Arkansas

Course
Blessings Golf Club (Par-72, 7550 yards)

GOLF Channel Live Television Coverage
Monday-Wednesday, May 27-29 (1-5 pm/8-10:30 am and 1-5 pm/1-5 pm PT)

GOLF Channel Coverage Team
Bob Papa – Play-By-Play; Curt Bynum – Lead Analyst; Steve Burkowski – Hole Announcer; Notah Begay – On Course Reporter; Billy Ray Brown – On Course Reporter; John Cook – On Course Reporter; Chantel McCabe – Interviews, Reporter; George Savaricas – Golf Central Host; Arron Oberholser – Golf Central Analyst; Ryan Lavner – College Insider; Brentley Romine – Writer; Alexandra O'Laughlin – Social Media Host

Live Scoring
calbea.rs/19ncaachampionshipslivescoring

Additional Coverage
Web (CalBears.com/GolfChannel.com); Twitter (CalMensGolf); Instagram (CalMensGolf); Hashtags (#CalMensGolf, #NCAAGolf)

Stroke-Play Format (Friday-Sunday)
30 Teams/Six Individuals – Three rounds, 54 holes, 18 holes each day ... top 15 teams and nine individuals advance to fourth-round Monday
*Five golfers on each team participate/top four golfers on each team in each round count towards team score

Stroke-Play Format (Monday)
Top 15 Teams/Top Nine Individuals Not On Those Teams After Three Rounds – Fourth and final round, 18 holes ... top eight teams advance to match-play beginning Tuesday, individual medalist crowned
*Five golfers on each team participate/top four golfers on each team in each round count towards team score

Match-Play Format (Tuesday)
Quarterfinals And Semifinals ... top two teams advance to Championship Match

Match-Play Format (Wednesday)
Championship Match 
*Each team has one alternate golfer who can be subbed into the five-player lineup at the beginning of any stroke-play or match-play round

Weather Forecast (according to weather.com)

30-Team/Six-Individual Field And Seedings
Team – 1. Oklahoma State, 2. Arizona State, 3. Wake Forest, 4. Vanderbilt, 5. Texas, 6. Oklahoma, 7. Georgia Tech, 8. Duke, 9. USC, 10. Stanford, 11. Auburn, 12. California, 13. Clemson, 14. Georgia, 15. Brigham Young, 16. South Carolina, 17. LSU, 18. Texas A&M, 19. North Florida, 20. Pepperdine, 21. Louisville, 22. Liberty, 23. Baylor, 24. Illinois, 25. North Carolina, 26. TCU, 27. UNLV, 28. Ohio State, 29. Georgia Southern, 30. SMU ... *Seedings match 5/15/19 Golfstat rankings
Individuals – Kyler Dunkle (Utah), Tripp Kinney (Iowa State), Julian Perico (Arkansas), Billy Tom Sargent (Western Kentucky), Zach Smith (UC Santa Barbara), Edwin Yi (Oregon)

First And Second-Round Pairings (All Others TBD)
Friday, May 24 – Cal will play in five threesomes along with No. 10 Stanford and No. 11 Auburn beginning from the first tee at 11:27 am PT
Saturday, May 25 – Cal will play in five threesomes along with No. 10 Stanford and No. 11 Auburn beginning from the 10th tee at 6:07 am PT

CAL'S HISTORY AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Cal is making its 15th appearance at the NCAA Championships with the Golden Bears' lone title coming in 2004 at the Homestead Resort's Cascade Course in Hot Spring, Va. Cal's national title was before the onset of match play but the Bears have also reached match play twice, finishing tied for third in both 2012 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. and 2013 at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga. Cal won the stroke-play portion of the 2013 event and was the top-seed in match play.
• Cal last played at an NCAA Championships in 2016 when the Bears finished tied for 10th in Eugene, Ore., in the 37th and final season of legendary head coach Steve Desimone.
• Four members of the 2019 NCAA Championships contingent – Jamie Cheatham, Sebastian Crampton, KK Limbhasut and Collin Morikawa – made up four-fifths of the lineup at the 2016 NCAA Championships with Morikawa's tied for 10th place finish the best in the group followed by Limbhasut (T17th), Cheatham (T66th) and Crampton (77th)

DID YOU KNOW

• Four of Cal's last six scheduled events in 2018-19 will have at least a portion either televised or streamed live.
• Sebastian Crampton and KK Limbhasut have both earned status on the 2019 Mackenzie Tour after playing as amateurs in separate qualifying events of the tour's Q-school earlier the spring.
• Kaiwen Liu moved to the United States from China along with his mother at the age of 11 with both having a very limited knowledge of the English knowledge. Liu was recently accepted into Cal's Haas School of Business.
• Cal has three golfers – Kaiwen Liu, Jamie Cheatham and James Song – at the NCAA Championships who prepped at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego.
• Former Cal men's golfers currently playing professionally include Byeong Hun An, Shotaro Ban, George Gandranata, Brandon Hagy, James Hahn, Max Homa, Michael Kim, Han Lee and Joël Stalter.
• Max Homa became the third former Cal golfer along with James Hahn and Michael Kim to win a PGA TOUR event when he captured the Wells Fargo Championship in May of 2019. Nine Cal golfers have won a total of 29 professional events.
• Additional information on the Cal men's golf program including the team's 2018-19 annual report is available online (CalBears.com), as well as on Twitter and Instagram (CalMensGolf)