Tag: 2022 NCAA Division III Championship

Emory women’s golf wins 2022 NCAA Division III Championship

Emory women’s golf won the team and individual title at the 2022 NCAA Division III championship.

Emory University shot 8 over in the final round to finish 23 over for the week to win the 2022 NCAA Division III women’s golf championship on Friday at Bay Oaks Country Club in Houston.

The Eagles also had the individual champ as Ellen Dong outlasted Alison Takamiya of George Fox University, winning medalist honors on the first playoff hole after each golfer finished the championship tied at 1 over. Dong’s second-round 68 tied the record at the NCAA championships.

Led by head coach Katie Futcher, Emory, located in Atlanta, won the women’s golf title for the first time in program history. Futcher was hired July of 2018. She played collegiate golf at Penn State and competed on the LPGA for nine years.

The University of Redlands came in second. George Fox was third.

Emory’s 26-stroke victory is the largest margin of victory at the Div. III women’s golf championships since 2013.

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Methodist men’s golf wins 2022 NCAA Division III Championship

Methodist won the team and individual title at the 2022 NCAA Division III Championship.

The Methodist men’s golf team made it a sweep with the team and individual titles at the 2022 NCAA Division III Championship on Friday.

The Monarchs finished 20 over to win by eight shots over Hampden-Sydney College in Howey-In-The-Hills, Florida. Huntingdon College and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps tied for third at 34 over. Emory was fifth at 40 over.

Methodist, a private school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, won its first title since 2018 and 13th team Div. III national championship overall. The school was runner-up in 2021.

Andre Chi of Methodist won medalist honors. He shot 73-70-70-70 over the four days to finish at 4 under, two better than Will Hocker of Webster. Chi is Methodist’s10th individual winner.

Nick Rubino of Hampden-Sydney and JF Aber of Wittenberg University finished tied for third at 1 under. Those four golfers were the only ones to finish under par among the 96 golfers in the championship.

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