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Piedmont men's golf finishes 11th in Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coach's Poll.

NORMAN, Okla. – The Piedmont men's golf team has been selected 11th in the Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coach's Poll the GCAA office announced Friday morning. 

Piedmont finished its regular season with a win in the conference championship, defeating Huntingdon with an exemplary day two to beat the Hawks by nine strokes at the end of the day. 

With the win the men's golf team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the second straight year. 

*Release from the GCAA office:

With victories in five of their last seven tournaments heading into the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship May 12-15, Huntingdon is No. 1 for the fifth consecutive Bushnell/Golfweek DIII Coaches Poll. The Hawks received 17 first-place votes and 449 points on May 8. 

Carnegie Mellon, Sewanee, Methodist, and Emory rounded out the top five, while Mary Hardin-Baylor, Washington and Lee, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Illinois Wesleyan, and Oglethorpe completed the top 10. 

 

See the rest of the top 25 below. Franklin & Marshall, Wittenberg, Dubuque, Guilford, NYU, and Gettysburg were others that received votes.

 

Final 2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll - May 8

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Rank	University	Points	Previous
1	Huntingdon (17)	449	1
2	Carnegie Mellon	400	2
3	Sewanee (1)	399	6
4	Methodist	396	3
5	Emory	365	7
T-6	Mary Hardin-Baylor	329	8
T-6	Washington and Lee	329	4
8	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	326	5
9	Illinois Wesleyan	325	9
10	Oglethorpe	271	12
11	Piedmont	262	13
12	Aurora	258	11
13	Kenyon	257	10
14	Willamette	205	19
15	Trinity (TX)	204	14
16	LeTourneau	172	15
17	Transylvania	157	22
18	Rochester	137	18
19	Gustavus Adolphus	132	23
20	Babson	95	20
21	Lynchburg	87	17
22	Whitman	85	21
23	Southwestern (TX)	80	16
24	Pomona-Pitzer	52	25
25	John Carroll	28	NR

Others Receiving Votes: Franklin & Marshall (21), Wittenberg (16), Dubuque (12), Guilford (5), NYU (2), Gettysburg (1)