Sautron Set for NCAA Marana Regional

Nebraska's Rudy Sautron is making his final preparations in Lincoln before traveling to the NCAA Men's Golf Marana Regional at The Gallery Golf Club in Arizona, Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 20.

Sautron, who earned first-team All-Big Ten honors just a few hours prior to hearing his name called for an individual regional berth to represent the Huskers, will travel to Arizona on Saturday and participate in a practice round on Sunday.

Sautron, a junior from Reunion Island, France, will join individuals from Loyola Marymount (Trevor Algya), Missouri (Veikka Viskari), New Mexico State (Javier Delgadillo) and UTEP (Dylan Teeter), along with full lineups from 14 regional-qualifying teams (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas State, Clemson, Duke, Florida Gulf Coast, Iona, LSU, North Dakota State, Oklahoma State, San Diego State, Saint Mary's (Calif.), Tarleton State, West Virginia) in trying to advance to the NCAA Championships. The top five teams and the top individual from a non-advancing team at the regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. (May 29-June 3).

Marana Regional action will get underway with first-round tee times off No. 1 and No. 10 at The Gallery Golf Club on Monday at 9 a.m. (CT). The second and third rounds will follow with identical schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Live scoring will be available through Scoreboard on Huskers.com, while live video coverage of all the NCAA Regionals will be available through Babygrande Golf on YouTube.

Sautron, who became the first Husker men's golfer since Michael Colgate in 2017 to qualify for NCAA Regional play, joins Brandon Crick (2010), Andrew Wyatt (2011) and Scott Willman (2012) as Husker NCAA Regional qualifiers since 2010.

In 2026, Sautron shattered his own school record with a 70.21 stroke average while competing in the Nebraska lineup for all 38 rounds this season. In his first season at Nebraska in 2024-25, Sautron established the school record with a 71.70 average.

In 2025-26, Sautron posted 23 subpar rounds, including a school-record 62 (-8) on his way to sharing a tournament title at the Hal Williams Collegiate (Feb. 15-16). 

He set three Nebraska individual tournament scoring records on the season on his way to a school-record-tying three individual titles, beginning with a 200 (-13) to win Nebraska's Git-R-Done Invitational at Firethorn (Sept. 22-23). He smashed that record with a 195 (-15) on his way to a title at the Hal Williams Collegiate in Semmes, Ala., to open the spring, before firing a school-record (-18) with a 198 to win The Johnnie-O at St. Simons Island, Ga. (March 9-10).

All three of Sautron's winning tournament performances earned him Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors during the season.

Sautron capped his regular season by tying for 17th with a 212 (+2) to help Nebraska to an eighth-place finish at the 18-team Big Ten Championship in North Plains, Ore. (May 1-3). It was Sautron's 11th consecutive top-25 individual finish of the season.

During the announcement of the NCAA Regional field (May 6), Sautron was competing in a U.S. Open Local Qualifying tournament at the Omaha Country Club. Following the event, he traveled home to France before returning to Lincoln on Wednesday, May 13.