Sooners Eye SEC Championship Run at Sea Island

NORMAN — Oklahoma males’s golf is ready to compete on the SEC Championship this week on the Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The Sooners, pursuing their twentieth convention title and fourth beneath head coach Ryan Hybl, tee off Wednesday morning.

 

The championship, which hosts 10 top-20 groups and 14 of the nation’s high 50, begins with stroke play Wednesday by means of Friday that includes all 16 groups. The high eight groups after 54 holes advance to match play, with quarterfinals and semifinals scheduled for Saturday and the championship match set for Sunday. Match play rounds might be broadcast on SEC Network and SECN+.

 

One of the nation’s premier packages over the previous decade, Oklahoma has received 43 tournaments for the reason that begin of 2015, highlighted by the 2017 nationwide championship. The Sooners have superior to a program-record 14 consecutive NCAA Championships and have earned a top-10 nationwide seed in every of the final seven seasons. Since the beginning of the 2021-22 marketing campaign, OU leads all SEC packages with 20 stroke-play victories.

 

Hybl, Oklahoma’s all-time winningest coach, has guided the Sooners to 50 match titles, a 2017 nationwide championship and 14 straight NCAA Finals appearances. A 2022 Dave Williams National Coach of the Year and 2024 GCAA Hall of Fame inductee, Hybl has coached 17 Sooners to 34 All-America honors since taking up in 2009.

 

Oklahoma enters the week with one workforce victory this season, capturing the Ka’anapali Classic final fall with a program-record 63-under-par efficiency. The Sooners look to regain momentum following a spring stretch that featured six consecutive finishes of fifth or decrease.

 

At final 12 months’s SEC Championship, OU positioned fourth in stroke play to advance to match play behind Drew Goodman’s runner-up particular person end earlier than falling to Florida within the quarterfinals.

The Sooners’ lineup consists of All-American and Hogan Award watch record choice Ryder Cowan, All-SEC performer Jase Summy, 2025 freshman All-American Clark Van Gaalen, PJ Maybank III and Cameron Cheek. True freshman Coltrane Mittag might be OU’s substitute on the championhip.

Admission is free. Spectators are inspired to park alongside Avenue of the Oaks and stay conscious of gamers teeing off close to the Plantation Course.

 

Live scoring might be obtainable through Scoreboard by Clippd.

 

The championship match on Sunday will air dwell on SEC Network at 7:30 a.m. ET (6:30 a.m. CT), with Saturday’s semifinals streaming on SEC+ at 1 p.m. ET (Noon CT

THE FIELD WITH NCAA CLIPPD RANKING

No. 1 Auburn, No. 3 Texas, No. 4 Florida, No. 5 Arkansas, No. 8 LSU, No. 11 Vanderbilt, No. 12 Ole Miss, No. 14 Tennessee, No. 16 Oklahoma, No. 17 Alabama, No. 25 Georgia, No. 30 Texas A&M, No. 39 South Carolina, No. 41 Mississippi State, No. 54 Kentucky, No. 89 Missouri. 

COURSE INFO

The SEC Championship returns to Sea Island Golf Club for the twenty fifth time in 2026. The occasion has been held on St. Simons Island yearly since 2001, with the Seaside Course serving as host from 2001-07 and 2010-21. 

This 12 months’s championship might be performed on the Seaside Course, a par-70, 7,005-yard ocean-side hyperlinks structure identified for its tight fairways, pure dunes and swirling coastal winds. Originally inbuilt 1929 and redesigned by Tom Fazio in 1999, Seaside can be house to the PGA TOUR’s RSM Classic.

TEE TIMES AND PAIRINGS

The first three rounds of the 2026 SEC Men’s Golf Championship start at 7 a.m. CT every day in staggered tee instances. The Sooners go off starting at 8:15 a.m. CT with Alabama, Georgia and Texas A&M. 

Match play begins Saturday, with quarterfinals beginning at 6:30 a.m. CT and semifinals set for midday. The championship match tees off Sunday at 7 a.m. CT.