Men's Golf comes in at #10 in the NAIA Preseason Poll
from the NAIA:
2022-23 NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll - Preseason (August 26)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Keiser (Fla.) receives all 19 first-place votes in the 2022-23 NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll after being victorious in last year's National Championship. Runner-Up Dalton State (Ga.) maintains second position while Houston-Victoria (Texas), Ottawa (Ariz.), and USC Beaufort (S.C.) each move up on place from the championship finish a year ago.
After last season's success in the spring, the Reinhardt Men's Golf team sit at an impressive #10 spot nationwide. Hunter Clay leads the way for the Eagles after placing in the tenth spot in the NAIA Nationals last season and he had an incredible offseason moving up in the World Amateur Rankings. Jack Haller, Chanc Willis, Brooks Gineris, and Dalton Henson are just a few of the names that make up this talented squad of golfers. This is the team that won the AAC Championship last spring which gave them an automatic qualifier for the NAIA nationals. Coach Evans Nichols has been working hard improving both the men's and women's sides in golf so Eagle Nation can look for many good things to come from both teams.
The fall season starts in mid-September with each team competing in four different tournaments and then they will start the conference season just after the new year begins. It should be an exiting time out on the course for men's and women's golf this 2022-23 school year.
| RANK | LAST | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | CONFERENCE | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Keiser (Fla.) [19] | The Sun | 529 |
| 2 | 2 | Dalton State (Ga.) | Southern States | 512 |
| 3 | 4 | Houston-Victoria (Texas) | Red River | 482 |
| 4 | 5 | Ottawa (Ariz.) | Golden State | 447 |
| 5 | 6 | USC Beaufort (S.C.) | Continental | 445 |
| 6 | 3 | Bellevue (Neb.) | North Star | 441 |
| 7 | 12 | Coastal Georgia | The Sun | 424 |
| 8 | 8 | British Columbia | Cascade | 416 |
| 9 | 10 | Texas Wesleyan | Sooner | 411 |
| 10 | 13 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | Appalachian | 379 |
| 11 | 11 | Oklahoma City | Sooner | 368 |
| 12 | 13 | Southeastern (Fla.) | The Sun | 330 |
| 13 | 9 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | Sooner | 329 |
| 14 | 7 | Point (Ga.) | Appalachian | 323 |
| 15 | NR | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | Cascade | 259 |
| 16 | NR | Southwestern Christian (Okla.) | Sooner | 255 |
| 17 | NR | Cumberlands (Ky.) | Mid-South | 237 |
| 18 | 13 | Morningside (Iowa) | Great Plains | 199 |
| 19 | NR | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | Mid-South | 186 |
| 20 | NR | The Master's (Calif.) | Golden State | 176 |
| 21 | NR | SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | The Sun | 161 |
| 22 | NR | Truett McConnell (Ga.) | Appalachian | 160 |
| 23 | NR | Columbia (Mo.) | American Midwest | 135 |
| 24 | 16 | Victoria (B.C.) | Continental | 133 |
| 25 | NR | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | Frontier | 132 |
Dropped from poll: Midway (Ky.)
Receiving Votes: Central Methodist (Mo.) 113; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 99; William Woods (Mo.) 62; Sterling (Kan.) 59; Midway (Ky.) 56; Tennessee Southern (Tenn.) 38; Mount Mercy (Iowa) 35; William Carey (Miss.) 30; Montana Tech 22; Milligan (Tenn.) 19; St. Thomas (Fla.) 17; Tennessee Wesleyan 16; Doane (Neb.) 15; Kansas Wesleyan 13; Lawrence Tech (Mich.) 7; Webber International (Fla.) 3
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
• Each conference is represented by one rater.
• The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
• The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team's ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes.