April 30, 2014

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina men’s golf team moved up two spots to No. 22 in the Golfstat Relative Rankings, Golfstat announced Wednesday.

The Gamecocks finished fifth at the SEC Championship last weekend with a total of 838 (-2), which is the lowest 54-hole SEC Championship total in school history. The top-five finish is South Carolina’s eighth in 10 tournaments this season.

South Carolina is also in the top 25 in Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings at No. 19 and the Golf World/Nike Coaches’ Poll at No. 24.

The Gamecocks will now wait for NCAA Regional pairings to be announced. The pairings will be announced live on the Golf Channel from 10 to 11 a.m. on Monday, May 5. South Carolina will be selected to compete in one of the following regionals: Auburn University Club in Auburn, Ala., The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Mo., Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C., Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill., Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Ore., and Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas.

Golfstat Relative Rankings

1. Alabama

2. Oklahoma State

3. Stanford

4. California

5. Georgia Tech

6. Georgia

7. UCF

8. Washington

9. Illinois

10. Houston

11. Virginia

12. Virginia Tech

13. Texas

14. LSU

15. Oklahoma

16. Southern California

17. Florida State

18. UCLA

19. Vanderbilt

20. Texas A&M

21. UAB

22. South Carolina

23. Auburn

24. Arkansas

25. New Mexico