April 22, 2015

COLUMBIA, S.C — Following a tie for second finish at the SEC Championship over the weekend, the South Carolina men’s golf team remained at No. 6 in the Golfstat Relative Rankings, Golfstat announced Wednesday.

The Gamecocks wrapped up the SEC Championship on Sunday tied with Vanderbilt with a 54-hole total of 830 (-10), the lowest total in program history at the SEC Championship. Carolina junior Matt NeSmith claimed medalist honors with a school-record total of 196 (-14), recording just one bogey on the weekend.

The tie for second finish extended Carolina’s school-record streak of top-five finishes to nine, which also ties the school record for most top-five finishes in a single season.

Carolina is one of five SEC schools ranked in the top 25. Vanderbilt is ranked No. 5, followed by the Gamecocks at No. 6, LSU at No. 7, Auburn at No. 15 and Alabama at No. 22.

The Gamecocks will now wait for NCAA Regional pairings to be announced on May 4 on the Golf Channel during the Morning Drive. Regionals will be contested at six sites May 14-16.

Golfstat Relative Rankings
1. Florida State
2. Texas
3. Arizona State
4. Illinois
5. Vanderbilt
6. South Carolina
7. LSU
8. Oregon
9. Texas Tech
10. Oklahoma
11. Georgia Tech
12. Washington
13. Stanford
14. UCLA
15. Auburn
16. Southern California
17. Baylor
18. South Florida
19. North Carolina
20. Oklahoma State
21. New Mexico
22. Alabama
23. Wake Forest
24. North Florida
25. California