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After winning NCAA title, Methodist finishes No. 1 in the final 2022 Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll

This top 25 poll reflects the order of finish at the Div. III championship.

After winning the 2022 NCAA Div. III Men’s Golf National Championship by eight strokes, Methodist is No. 1 in the final Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll for the spring season.

The Monarchs’ national title is the 13th in program history.

They were led by national individual champion Andre Chi, who became the 11th medalist produced by the Methodist program.

This top 25 is in order of finish at the Div. III championship.

Rank Team
1 Methodist
2 Hampden-Sydney
T-3 Huntingdon
T-3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
5 Emory
6 Carnegie Mellon
7 Wittenberg
8 Washington & Lee
9 Sewanee: The University of the South
10 New York University
11 Piedmont
T-12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
T-12 Babson
14 Aurora
15 Kenyon
16 Oglethorpe
17 Christopher Newport
18 Franklin & Marshall
T-19 Willamette
T-19 Greensboro
21 Mary Hardin-Baylor
22 Hope
23 Webster
24 Gustavus Adolphus
25 Luther

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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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Methodist is the No. 1 team in the Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll

The Methodist men’s golf team closed its regular season with three straight tournaments wins.

The Methodist men’s golf team closed its regular season with three straight tournaments wins, including the 2022 USA South Men’s Golf Championship.

That’s more than enough to keep the Monarchs, who received 16 of 17 first-place votes, in the top spot in the latest Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll.

Emory is No. 2 after receiving one first-place vote. Huntingdon, Wittenberg and Babson take up Nos. 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Kenyon College is new to the poll this time around and checks in at No. 20.

Rank University (First Place Votes) Points Previous
1 Methodist (16) 424 1
2 Emory (1) 408 2
3 Huntingdon 385 3
T-4 Wittenberg 351 5
T-4 Babson 351 4
6 Carnegie Mellon 350 6
7 Christopher Newport 314 8
8 Illinois Wesleyan 314 7
9 Sewanee: The University of the South 296 10
10 Mary Hardin-Baylor 245 9
11 Piedmont 239 11
12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 232 12
13 Greensboro 206 15
14 Washington & Lee 195 16
15 Oglethorpe 178 13
16 Willamette 170 17
17 Texas-Dallas 140 14
18 Hampden-Sydney 124 21
19 Gustavus Adolphus 120 20
20 Kenyon College 107 NR
21 Denison 91 19
T-22 Rochester 74 24
T-22 Berry 74 23
24 Aurora 36 22
25 York College (PA) 26 18
Others receiving votes: Concordia (TX) (16); Dallas (14); Texas Lutheran (11); Guilford (9); Gettysburg (8); Lynchburg (6); New York University (6); Drew (2); Rhodes College (1); Saint John’s (MN) (1); Southwestern (TX) (1).

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Emory is the No. 1 team in the first spring 2022 Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll

Emory starts the spring 2022 spring season where it left off in 2021: In the top-ranked spot.

Emory is the No. 1-ranked team to open the spring 2022 season, according to the latest Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll, which was released on Friday.

Emory collected 497 total votes, 20 ahead of Methodist. Babson checks in at No. 3 with 439 and shoots up the poll from the No. 7 spot it held in the final 2021 poll.

Huntingdon is No. 4, while Claremont-Mudd-Scripps rounds out the top 5.

Big mover: Willamette, up four spots to No. 10. New to the poll for the spring: Pomona-Pitzer, which is 25th after being unranked the last time out.

Rank University (First Place Votes) Points Previous
1 Emory 497 1
2 Methodist 477 2
3 Babson 439 7
4 Huntingdon 427 3
5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 422 4
6 Wittenberg 387 8
7 Carnegie Mellon 379 6
8 Illinois Wesleyan 366 5
9 Greensboro 308 9
10 Willamette 266 14
11 York College (PA) 253 13
12 Oglethorpe 245 12
13 Washington & Lee 244 11
14 Occidental 235 16
15 Christopher Newport 232 10
16 Whitworth 198 18
17 Piedmont 178 15
18 Mary Hardin-Baylor 160 20
19 New York University 122 19
T-20 Gustavus Adolphus 115 17
T-20 Redlands 115 23
22 Sewanee: The University of the South 86 21
23 Whitman 64 T-24
24 Hampden-Sydney 49 22
25 Pomona-Pitzer 47 NR

Others Receiving Votes: Denison University 40, Iowa Wesleyan College 21, Rochester 21, Kenyon College 17, Saint Johns (MN) 14, Trinity University (TX) 12, Skidmore 11, Otterbein 11, Aurora University 9, Berry College 9, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 8, Pacific Lutheran University 7, Wisconsin-Eau Claire 7, Guilford 5, Millikin University 5, Webster University 4, Lynchburg 3, Rhodes 2, University of Texas-Dallas 1, Hope 1.

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