Thomson Earns Second Invitation to NCAA Regional, Will Head to Illinois
4/30/2025 1:55:00 PM | Men's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan men's golf team senior Hunter Thomson received an individual bid to the 2025 NCAA Urbana Regional it was announced Wednesday (April 30) on the Golf Channel. He will head to the regional site hosted by Illinois in Urbana, Ill., Monday through Wednesday, May 12-14, at the Atkins Golf Club.
With his selection, he will make his second consecutive NCAA regional trip and the fifth appearance by a Wolverine. Thomson joins Matt Thompson (2012), Chris O'Neill (2014) and Kyle Mueller (2018) on U-M's individual invitation list.
Thomson will begin his quest to advance to the 2025 NCAA Finals with his practice round on Sunday, May 11. With a 54-hole regional (May 12-14), he will be vying for the top individual spot among non-qualifying teams (top five) to advance to the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa championships in Carlsbad, Calif.
In another career campaign, Thomson led the Wolverines in 11 of 12 events, including the final seven tournaments. Winning the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (202, -14) and the Boilermaker Invitational (203, -10), he recorded nine top-10 finishes, with six in the top five. Averaging 210.36 per 54-hole event, he produced seven sub-par tallies, including all five spring events.
With a career-low 70.09 scoring average, Thomson is on pace to break his own U-M single-season record (70.56 in 2023-24). He has 20 sub-par rounds and shot a season-low 66 three times -- the first and second rounds of the Canadian Collegiate and the second round of the Boilermaker. Overall, he posted 13 sub-70 rounds.
This season, Thomson was named the Big Ten's Golfer of the Week four times (Sept. 19, Feb. 20, April 17, April 24).
In last year's regional, Thomson posted a 218 (+2) total and tied for 27th at the NCAA West Lafayette Regional at Purdue's Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, Kampen Course. The trip was his first NCAA postseason event, and he was the first Wolverine in six years to earn an invitation to an NCAA regional.
Michigan has been represented in regional competition by the team or individual 15 times, with 10 team appearances (1995, '97, 2000, '08, '09, '10, '11, '15, '16 and '17) and five individual selections (2012, '14, '18, '24 and '25). From the regionals, U-M has advanced to the NCAA Finals five times -- as a team (1997, 2009, '11) and individually (2015 and 2018, both by Mueller).
Overall, U-M has 44 NCAA postseason appearances -- 35 team and 19 individual. The Wolverines won back-to-back national titles in 1934 and 1935.
Michigan's Individual Invitations to NCAA Postseason
• 2012 -- Ann Arbor Regional: Matt Thompson (t-19th; 213)
• 2014 -- Sugar Grove Regional: Chris O'Neill (t-20th; 225)
• 2018 -- Columbus Regional: Kyle Mueller (medalist; 208, -5)
• 2024 -- West Lafayette Regional: Hunter Thomson (t-27th; 218)
• 2025 -- Urbana Regional: Thomson
• NCAA release
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