| NCAA Division I Men's Golf Regionals | |
| Dates | Monday-Wednesday, May 16-18 |
| Location | Scarlet Course at the OSU Golf Club | Columbus, Ohio | Par 71, 7,422 yards |
| Scoring | Live Scoring |
| Field | Teams (in order of seed): Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, Clemson, East Tennessee State, Ohio State, Duke, Northwestern, Florida Gulf Coast, San Francisco, Kentucky, Wright State and Southern Illinois Individuals (in order of seed): Hunter Eichhorn (Marquette), Griffin Barela (Wisconsin), Patrick Sheehan (Penn State), Thomas Giroux (Oakland), Connor Burgess (Virginia Tech), Sam Jean (Cincinnati), Lou Olsakovsky (Penn State), Cameron Huss (Wisconsin), Joe Muschong (Morehead State) and Anthony Delisanti (Valparaiso) |
| Competing Nittany Lions | Patrick Sheehan, Lou Olsakovsky |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State men's golf junior Patrick Sheehan and graduate student Lou Olsakovsky are set to compete as individuals in the NCAA Columbus Regional at the Scarlet Course at the Ohio State Golf Club Monday through Wednesday.
Sheehan and Olsakovsky are the first Nittany Lions to earn an individual bid to NCAA Regionals since former All-American T.J. Howe in 2011. The Nittany Lions earned NCAA Regional bids as a team for four-straight years from 2015-18 and have made 24 appearances as a team in program history.
Sheehan, a second team All-Big Ten selection, put together a stellar junior campaign in which he led the Nittany Lions with a 70.79 stroke average. The Doylestown, Pa. native collected six top-10 finishes and eight top-15 finishes while competing in 11 events throughout the 2021-22 season. He is ranked No. 95 in the most recent Golfweek/Sagarin rankings.
Olsakovsky gets the chance to continue his stellar Penn State career at NCAA Regionals. The graduate student ranked second on the team this season with a 71.79 stroke average. He collected six top-15 finishes throughout his final season in the Blue &White, including a pair of top-10 placements.
The Columbus Regional is one of six regional host sites for the 2022 championship. The 7,422-yard Scarlet Course plays at a par of 71. Tee times for the field will begin at 7:30 a.m., with 18 holes being played each day. Olsakovsky will tee off at 9:31 a.m. and Sheehan at 9:53 a.m. Monday, with teams and individuals being re-paired according to score after the first and second rounds.
Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams were selected to compete at three regionals while the other three regionals will feature 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to play in the championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 27–June 1.
Live scoring for each round of NCAA Regionals will be available on GolfStat.