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Division II Men's Golf Championships, played in late May, is an annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate

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. From its inception through 2010, it was a 72-hole

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team competition, with an additional award for the lowest scoring individual competitor. The team format changed starting in 2011 to 54 holes of stroke play followed by an eight-team

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competition. The 54-hole individual leader is the individual champion. Many of the individual champions have gone on to successful professional careers. The most successful individual winner is

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(1986) who won eight times on the

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including two major championships, the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Opens.

Results

Stroke play (1963–2010)

Match play (2011–present)

^P = Won in a playoff
† = 54-hole tournament, scheduled
‡ = 54-hole tournament, due to weather

Multiple winners

Team

The following schools have won more than one team championship: *13:

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*6: Columbus State *3:

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, Troy State, South Carolina-Aiken *2: Lamar State, LSU-New Orleans, Rollins, Tampa,

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, Nova Southeastern, Lynn

Individual

The following men have won more than one individual championship: *2:

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, J. J. Jakovac, Jeff Leonard

Individual champion's school

The following schools have produced more than one individual champion: *9: Florida Southern *6: Columbus State *3: Cal State Northridge, Cal State Chico *2:

Middle Tennessee State Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU or MT) is a public university in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Founded in 1911 as a normal school, the university consists of eight undergraduate colleges as well as a college of graduate studies, together of ...

, Tampa,

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, South Carolina-Aiken, Abilene Christian,

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References

External links

NCAA men's golf
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