Arkansas didn’t get the round it needed Saturday at the NCAA Championships.
The sixth‑ranked Razorbacks posted a 10‑over 298 on the North Course at Omni La Costa and slipped into a tie for 20th after two days, sitting at 586 for the tournament.
They’ll need a move Sunday to climb into the top 15 and earn a spot in Monday’s final round of stroke play. Right now, the cut line sits at 3‑over.
Auburn set the pace with a blistering 16‑under 272, jumping eight shots clear of Texas and Vanderbilt. Arkansas didn’t have anything close to that kind of round, but it wasn’t without a few bright spots.
Gerardo Gomez, Erich Fortlage, and John Daly II each turned in 74s. Gomez opened with a birdie on his second hole and got back to even with another on No. 4, but a run of late bogeys kept him from going lower.
Congrats to Erich and Gerardo on earning All-Central Region @GolfCoachesAssn @PingTour 🐗⛳️ pic.twitter.com/z7g9Z5OpRf
— Arkansas Men's Golf 🐗 (@RazorbackMGolf) May 30, 2026
Fortlage and Daly each made four birdies. Fortlage kept the card mostly clean outside of two bogeys and two doubles. Daly nearly had his first collegiate ace on the par‑3 16th, his seventh hole of the day.
Cam Smith shot 76 and Thomas Curry finished with a 77.
Arkansas has work to do, but there’s still a path to Monday if the Razorbacks can put together their best round of the week.
2026 NCAA Championship
- Stroke Play: May 29-June 1 (Fri-Mon.)
- Location: Omni La Costa Resort – North Course || Carlsbad, Calif.
- Par: 72 || Yards: 7,538 yards
- Host: Texas
- Format: 5 count 4, 18 holes each day for 3 Rds; top 15 teams and 9 individuals advance to Rd4; end of Rd4, an individual champion crowned and the top 8 teams advance to match play.
Results Thru Rd2:
1 #1 Auburn 284-272=556 / -20
T2 #3 Texas 287-277=564 / -12
T2 #11 Vanderbilt 287-277=564 / -12
T4 #30 UCLA 280-289+569 / -7
T4 #5 Oklahoma State 295-274=569 / -7
T6 #12 Arizona 287-285=572 / -4
T6 #29 Duke 286-286=572 / -4
T6 #4 Virginia 288-284=572 / -4
T9 #10 North Carolina 287-288=575 / -1
T9 #14 Pepperdine 285-290=575 / -1
11 #16 Oklahoma 292-284=576 / E
T12 #42 San Diego 286-291=577 / +1
T12 #15 Stanford 291-286=577 / +1
T14 #56 Chattanooga 294-285=579 / +3
T14 #18 Tennessee 292-287=579 / +3
16 #2 Florida 291-290=581 / +5
17 #39 Arkansas State 295-287=582 / +6
18 #23 Georgia 292-291=583 / +7
19 #13 Arizona State 291-293=584 / +8
T20 #6 ARKANSAS 288-298=586 / +10
T20 #22 Brigham Young 296-290=586 / +10
22 #20 Texas A&M 299-289=588 / +12
23 #33 Louisville 294-296=590 / +14
24 #40 Purdue 296-295=591 / +15
25 #37 Mississippi State 298-294=592 / +16
26 #57 Memphis 301-293=594 / +18
T27 #9 Ole Miss 303-293+596 / +20
T27 #7 LSU 303-293+596 / +20
29 #28 USC 297-300=597 / +21
30 #26 Florida State 307-292=599 / +23
