AUBURN, Ala. – The No. 14 Auburn men's golf is set to begin postseason play when it travels to St. Simons Island, Ga. for the 2021 Southeastern Conference Championship, April 21-25.
The annual event, set to take place at the par-70, 7,005-yard Sea Island Golf Club, begins with 54 holes of stroke play to determine an individual SEC champion with the top-eight teams advancing to match play to determine the team champion.
Quarterfinal and semifinal matches will take place Saturday, with the title bout set for Sunday morning live on the SEC Network.
The Tigers are one of eight ranked teams in the field this year, joining No. 10 Georgia, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 15 Vanderbilt, No. 17 Florida, No. 19 Tennessee, No. 22 Arkansas and No. 23 LSU.
Auburn is set to field a lineup of J.M. Butler, C.J. Easley, Graysen Huff, Andrew Kozan, Jovan Rebula and Alex Vogelsong during the week.
The Tigers have won four SEC titles in program history: 1976, 1981, 2002 and 2018. Auburn shot 24-under in the last installment in 2019 to win the stroke play portion by 16 strokes, tied for the biggest margin since Georgia won by 18 strokes in 1988.
Rebula defeated Huff in a 4-hole playoff to become the fifth Tiger in program history to be crowned as the conference's individual champion, joining Jimmy Green (1991), Bryant MacKellar (1997), Roland Thatcher (2000) and Patton Kizzire (2007).
Auburn is paired with Georgia and Texas A&M for the first round off the No. 1 tee box at 6:30 a.m. CT. Live scoring is available on Golfstat.com.
