LUBBOCK, Texas – FGCU's Jake Sherwin played his practice round at The Rawls Course on Wednesday in advance of the Lubbock Regional hosted by Texas Tech as part of the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship which gets underway Thursday and continues through Saturday.
 
Sherwin (Fort Myers, Fla./Evangelical Christian HS) is scheduled to begin his first round off the first tee on Thursday at 9:50 local time (10:50 Eastern) alongside Texas-Pan American's Nicolas Platret and Charleston Southern's Nicolas Baena. Sherwin and Platret are both competing as individuals.
 
There are six 54-hole regional tournaments which will be conducted as part of the initial weekend of the championship. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals, while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams.
 
The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals May 29-June 3 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla. South Florida is the host institution for the 2015 championship, which will be broadcast on the Golf Channel.
 
Sherwin will be competing against the following individuals for the right to earn the low three-round score and advance to the finals: Platret, Adria Arnaus (Texas A&M), Victor Lange (Louisiana Tech), Tyler McDaniel (Kentucky), David Snyder (Kentucky), Greg Yates (Texas A&M), Martin Simonsen (UTEP), Matt Mabrey (Tulsa) and Tomasz Anderson (Jacksonville State).
 
This year, Sherwin has competed against four of the nine other individuals in the regional, and is most familiar with Jacksonville State's Anderson as the two competed in three of the same tournaments.
 
The first came at the Pinetree Intercollegiate in Georgia in October as Sherwin finished 14th overall with a 221 three-round total and Anderson tied for 9th with a 218 total. The second occasion came at Jacksonville State's tournament in March when Anderson tied for 1st with a 210 total and Sherwin tied for 6th with a 216. The final occurrence was just a few days later at the FAU Slomin Autism Championship when Sherwin tied for 2nd with a 211 total and Anderson tied for 5th with a 214 total. Anderson is the top-ranked individual in the field at 38 by Golfstat.
 
Sherwin has also teed it up in tournaments this year against Texas A&M's Arnaus and Yates and Texas-Pan American's Platret. Sherwin, Arnaus and Yates all competed in the Talis Park Challenge in Naples in March as Arnaus tied for 2nd with a 208 three-round total, Sherwin tied for 10th with a 211 total and Yates tied for 46th with a 222 total. Meanwhile, Sherwin tied for 4th at Texas State's Jim West Intercollegiate in April with a 211 three-round total, while Platret tied for 36th with a 223 total.
 

Pinetree Intercollegiate	Score	Finish
Tomasz Anderson	218	T-9
Jake Sherwin	221	14
Grub Mart Intercollegiate
Tomasz Anderson	210	T-1
Jake Sherwin	216	T-6
Slomin Autism Champ.
Jake Sherwin	211	T-2
Tomasz Anderson	214	T-5
Talis Park Challenge
Adria Arnaus	208	T-2
Jake Sherwin	211	T-10
Greg Yates	222	T-46
Jim West Intercollegiate
Jake Sherwin	211	T-4
Nicolas Platret	223	T-36

 
Sherwin was one of 45 at-large individual selections into the field as announced last Monday, May 4, as the show aired live on the Golf Channel.
 
He will be teeing it up on The Rawls Course, Texas Tech's home track which will be stretched to a length of 7,349 yards for the regional and played to a par 71. Completed in 2003, the layout features very undulating fairways, bent grass greens and several deep bunkers.
 
The front nine boasts a par-4 2nd hole which will play to a length of 521 yards, while another 500-yard par 4 appears on the back (14th, 506). A 239-yard par 3 16th commences a long, challenging closing stretch as back-to-back par 5s round out the course. The 17th plays to an incredible 630 yards, while the 18th is 578 yards.
 
Sherwin is the third FGCU men's golfer in only four years of eligibility to be selected to the NCAA Championship. In 2012 Brandon Pena competed in the Athens Region, and in 2013 Edward Figueroa was selected to the Tallahassee Region. Sherwin will be the sixth different FGCU representative at NCAA championships this year alone, joining men's soccer, women's soccer, women's basketball, swimming & diving and men's tennis. The Eagles now have an incredible 20 NCAA team or individual championship appearances since 2011-12.
 
Sherwin was named to the Atlantic Sun Conference Second Team and an A-Sun Academic Team selection after leading FGCU with a 72.78 scoring average – nearly two shots better than any other Green and Blue member. In nine tournaments in 2014-15, Sherwin finished in the top 10 five times, top 15 seven times and top 20 an astonishing eight times.
 
During the spring, Sherwin orchestrated one of the best stretches of play in D-I program history as four of his top-10 finishes came in consecutive weeks, including three-straight top-6 finishes or better. His best showing was a tie for 2nd out of 113 golfers at the FAU Slomin Autism Invitational Mar. 27-29 when he carded a three-round 211 (-2) total.
 
In posting five rounds in the 60s this year, Sherwin was responsible for half of FGCU's 10 total rounds in the 60s. He was also responsible for half (13) of the Eagles' par-or-better rounds (26) on the season. The low round(s) of his career and season came on two occasions as he shot a 67 (-5) on Sept. 15 as part of the Saint Mary's Invitational and then again on Mar. 15 (67, -4) at the Talis Park Challenge.
 
In 27 rounds on the season, Sherwin's score was used in FGCU's team total 25 times, including a stretch of 22 in a row to end the season. To conclude the regular season, Sherwin posted eight-straight rounds of par or better (six of which were under par), and for the spring season – excluding the A-Sun Championship in which he finished tied for 19th – 10 of his 12 rounds overall were even par of better.
 
Sherwin's 72.78 scoring average for the year is currently the 9th-best in FGCU single-season program history (which dates back to 2000-01 for men's golf). His 13 par-or-better rounds are tied for the 6th-most in a single season. Sherwin has rolled in 92 birdies this year to also tie for the 6th-most in a single year, and his three eagles are tied for the 3rd-best in single-season history. Sherwin played par-5 holes to a stroke average of 4.72 this year to rank as the 6th-best performance in single-season history, and his 135 (-7) total at the Talis Park Challenge was the 4th-best 36-hole outing posted in program history.
 
For his career, Sherwin has a 74.81 scoring average to rank 13th in program history. His 25 par-or-better rounds are tied for the 6th-most all-time, and his 90 rounds played are just 16 shy of breaking the program record. Of those rounds, Sherwin's score has been used in the team total 73 times – 7th-best all-time and just 25 shy of the record. Additionally, Sherwin is 4th on FGCU's career birdies list with 249, just 64 shy of setting the program record. He's also just four eagles shy of establishing that record as well as he has six on his career.
 
In addition to Sherwin, the A-Sun will be represented at the 2015 NCAA Championship by North Florida and Kennesaw State as the Ospreys won the league tournament and automatic berth into the field while the Owls received an at-large selection. Furthermore, USC Upstate's Ryan Cornfield and Lipscomb's Dawson Armstrong each received individual selections. UNF is seeded 4th in the Lubbock Region, while Kennesaw State is also seeded 4th but in the Chapel Hill Region (hosted by North Carolina). Cornfield and Armstrong are both also in the Chapel Hill Region.
 
For more information regarding the Lubbock Region, visit the Championship Central page by clicking here.
 
Lubbock Region Individuals (Golfstat Ranking, If Applicable)
1. (38) Tomasz Anderson, Jacksonville State
2. (62) Adria Arnaus, Texas A&M
3. (80) Victor Lange, Louisiana Tech
4. (90) Tyler McDaniel, Kentucky
5. (100) David Snyder, Kentucky
6. Greg Yates, Texas A&M
7. Martin Simonsen, UTEP
8. Matt Mabrey, Tulsa
9. Jake Sherwin, FGCU
10. Nocolas Platret, UT-Pan American
 
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