ATLANTA—Oglethorpe University's sixth-ranked men's golf team heads down the turnpike in Florida to Howey-in-the-Hills, just north of Orlando, and Mission Inn Resort & Club to do battle in the National Preview next Sunday-Tuesday, Sept. 21-23.

"Oglethorpe has a nearly 25-year history hosting NCAA Championships and NCAA Previews at the diamond in the rough that is Mission Inn," commented Coach Jim Owen.

The NCAA in 2022 first approached Oglethorpe about Partnering with Greater Orland Sports, Lake County Tourism, and Mission Resort & Club to begin a relationship with NCAA Division III. Coach Owen was overwhelmed with the hospitality calling the Mission Inn personnel simply professional hosts.

"When I met the world-class staff at Greater Orlando Sports and learned of Mission Resort & Club's already dozen-year partnership with NCAA Division I and Division II, I felt confident I was joining a trio of partners that could lift Division III to new horizons," Owen said. "I could not have been more right, as May 2026 will mark our 14th time hosting the NCAA DIII National Championships. We hosted our first men's championship in 2005 and quickly followed up in 2006 and 2007 with consecutive NCAA Women's Golf Championships. The rest, as they say, is history."

Oglethorpe and Mission Inn hosted the men's championships most recently in 2022, marking the fourth time. In 2023, they hosted the women's championships for the ninth time.

"Every time we host in Howey-in-the-Hills, Mission Inn manages to raise the bar for the next championship," Owen continued. "I am proud to have hosted 14 of the last 22 national championships here, nearly a dozen fall previews and watched Greater Orlando Sports and The Mission Inn lift Division III golf to amazing new heights the last 20-plus years."

Owen continued to explain that this year's field is the strongest collection of teams ever assembled at an NCAA National Preview. Each of the top 19 teams, and 23 of the top 26, in last year's final Scoreboard clipped final poll will descend on El Campeon and Las Colinas for the 54-hole event.

Play will begin Sunday, Sept. 21, on Las Colinas and then move Monday and Tuesday to the championship El Campeon Course that will hold the final two rounds of the 2026 National Championships.