INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Under the direction of head coach Chris Greenwood, Saint Leo men's golf has made its return to NCAA postseason as the Lions were announced as one of 10 teams from the South Region to head to the Super Regional at the Rock Barn Country Club (Jones Course) in Conover, North Carolina on May 7-9.
 
Joining the Green and Gold from the South are No. 1 seed West Florida, No. 2 seed Florida Southern, No. 3 seed Nova Southeastern, No. 4 seed Florida Tech, No. 5 seed Barry, No. 6 seed Lynn, No. 7 seed Rollins, No. 9 seed Delta State, and No. 10 seed Albany State. Florida Tech and West Florida are going as automatic qualifiers from the Sunshine State Conference and Gulf South Conference, respectively, where Albany State won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) for the second year in a row to claim the SIAC automatic bid.
 
Ten teams and four additional individuals were selected from each of the eight NCAA regions, which are then combined into four super regional tournaments to be conducted May 7-9. The South and Southeast will play together in one of those, and it has traditionally been the most challenging of the super regionals each year since that format was adopted in 1996. The top seven teams from the South/Southeast Regional will move on to the Division II National Championships along with the top two individuals not with one of the advancing teams. The National Finals will be played May 21-25 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at the Shoals, Fighting Joe Course.
 
The Southeast Region is represented in order of seed by South Carolina-Aiken, Newberry, Columbus State, Limestone, Carson-Newman, Lincoln Memorial, Lander, Young Harris, North Greenville, and Georgia Southwestern. USC-Aiken is the automatic qualifier from the Peach Belt Conference for the second year in a row, North Greenville won its first Conference Carolinas championship to claim that league's automatic bid, and Carson-Newman is the champion and automatic qualifier from the South Atlantic Conference for the second year in a row.
 
In addition to the teams, four individuals from each region were also selected. Those golfers from the South Region are Matt Anderson and Davis Roche from Valdosta State, Samuel Jones from West Georgia, and Scott Odell from Lee. Coming in from the Southeast Region are Nick Stafford and Levi Kettelhut from Belmont Abbey, Logan Archer from North Georgia and Wanjoo Lee from Coker.
 
This year marks the second time Lenoir-Rhyne and Rock Barn Country Club have hosted the South/Southeast Super Regional, with the first in 2012. The format calls for one round each day beginning at 7:30 a.m. First- and second-round pairings are pre-determined based on seeding, with the final round based on team scores up to that point. As the No. 2 seed from the South, Florida Southern will play the first two rounds with Nova Southeastern and Columbus State.
 
Saint Leo owns one national championship coming in 2016 when the Lions won the title at the Division II Festival in Denver, Colorado behind individual national champion, Hugo Bernard. The starting five for the Lions in Denver were, Hugo Bernard, Liam Ainsworth, Joey Savoie, Ryan Gendron and Griffin Clark. 
 
The Lions are recently coming off a seventh place finish at the Sunshine State Conference tournament after carding a 867 (+15), where Simon Knutsson led the way tied for 20th at three-over, 216.

Coach Greenwood will determine his lineup in the coming days.
 
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