Grand Rapids Reporter

The Ferris State University men's golf team began their participation in the 2025 NCAA Division II Midwest/Central Super Regional Championships on Thursday, May 8, in St. Joseph, Missouri. The team scored a total of 300 on the first day of the event.

Currently positioned at 13th overall after the opening round of this 54-hole tournament, the Bulldogs are set to continue with round two on Friday, May 9, and conclude with the final round on Saturday, May 10, at the St. Joseph Country Club.

The competition is tight as less than ten strokes separate teams ranked from third to fourteenth place. Central Oklahoma leads with a score of 280, followed by Central Missouri at 290. Arkansas Tech and Missouri S&T are tied for third place with scores of 292 each.

A total of twenty teams are competing in this regional championship, including eleven schools ranked among the nation's top fifty teams. Ferris State University is among these ranked institutions.

Zach Koerner led Ferris State individually with a two-over-par score of 73, placing him tied for 23rd on the leaderboard. Kole Putnam scored a 75 and is tied for 49th position while Drayton Cleaver recorded a score of 76 along with McCoy Biagioli; both are tied for 58th place. Sam Havey ended his first round in a tie for 107th place with an overall score of 83.

The Midwest/Central Regional is organized by the St. Joseph Sports Commission and Missouri Western University and features ten teams from each region alongside four individual competitors from each region participating in this tournament.

To advance to the finals scheduled for May 19-23 at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at least three top-performing teams and two leading student-athletes not affiliated with any team will qualify from each regional contest. Additional berths will be distributed based on previous year's head-to-head medal play outcomes with no more than seven teams per region permitted entry into finals hosted by Palm Beach Atlantic and Palm Beach County Sports Commission.

This marks the twentieth occasion over twenty-two years that Ferris State has been represented at an NCAA Tournament when held—a testament to one of collegiate men's golf's most consistent championship representations nationwide.

For live scoring updates from NCAA Super Regional visit: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/237016/scoring/team