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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - After 54 holes of stroke play, the semifinals for the 2026 OVC Men’s Golf Championship Match Play event are set for Wednesday.
Little Rock, UT Martin, Tennessee Tech and Bryant are the top four seeds and will play for the OVC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship on Wednesday. This marks the fifth year of Match Play to determine the OVC champion.
No. 1 Little Rock and No. 4 Bryant will tee off beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET on Hole 1 while No. 2 UT Martin and No. 3 Tennessee Tech will tee off on Hole 10 beginning at 8:03 a.m. ET. The winners will play in the Championship Match at approximately 1:00 p.m. ET.
Little Rock, ranked No. 57 nationally, is the No. 1 seed for the fourth-consecutive season; the Trojans are looking for its second-straight and third overall OVC Championship. UT Martin won the inaugural OVC Match Play event (2022) and has made the final four in four of the five years the event has been held. Tennessee Tech won Match Play in 2024 and is in the event for the third time. Bryant, in its second year as an OVC affiliate member, advanced to Match Play for the first time. The Bulldogs were the No. 7 ranked team entering this year’s OVC Championship.
Little Rock finished stroke play at -28, which was 45 shots ahead of UT Martin (+17). Tennessee Tech finished third at +24, while Bryant was fourth at +33. The teams were rounded out by Western Illinois (+34), Morehead State (+38), SIUE (+43), Southern Indiana (47), Lindenwood (+60), Eastern Illinois (+60) and Tennessee State (+67).
Little Rock’s
Mark Stockdale earned medalist honors after a 54-hole total of 200 (-13) with rounds of 68-68-64. He finished five shots ahead of a pair of his teammates in
Elliott Simonsen and
Ed Featherstone who were each 8-under. The Trojans Rhett South finished fourth (+1) while UT Martin teammates
Luke Caldwell and
Grant Phillips tied for fifth (+3) to round out the All-Tournament Team.
Following the final round, the league head coaches voted on the Player, Freshman and Coach of the Year awards. Little Rock swept the awards with sophomore
Ed Featherstone being named Player of the Year,
Viggo Talasmaki taking home Freshman of the Year honors and Trojans head coach
Austin Eoff being tabbed Coach of the Year for the second-straight year.
The OVC Championship is being played on the Ackerman-Allen Course of the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on the campus of Purdue University. The course played par 71 with a yardage of 7,083 on Tuesday.
Live scoring for Wednesday’s Match Play can be accessed through links at OVCSports.com.
OVC Player of the Year: Ed Featherstone, Little Rock
OVC Freshman of the Year: Viggo Talasmaki, Little Rock
OVC Coach of the Year: Austin Eoff, Little Rock
OVC All-Tournament Team
Mark Stockdale, Little Rock (MVP)
Ed Featherstone, Little Rock
Elliott Simonsen, Little Rock
Rhett South, Little Rock
Luke Caldwell, UT Martin
Grant Phillips, UT Martin