If Vanderbilt will win the NCAA title for the 11th consecutive time, it will have to be done without Gordon Sargent.

Sargent did not travel to Amherst, Virginia with Commodores, who will start attending the third seed in the NCAA Amherst area on Sunday afternoon at the Poplar Grove Golf Club. This marks the third time this season’s struggling senior has exited the roster.

John Broderick missed his first game of the season in the SEC Championship last month, and he will be inserted into five games to join Jackson Van Paris, Wells Williams, Ryan Downes and Chase Nevins, while Ben Loomis is the replacement. The first round will start at 1:45 pm on Sunday, due to bad weather, more than the scheduled day.

SEC FOES LSU and Oklahoma are the top two teams in the Vanderbilt area, which also include Pepperdine, Tennessee, Arizona, Stanford, Stanford, Wake Forest, Arkansas, Florida Gulf Coast, Kent State, Princeton State and Howard.

"Like we've been doing, we just want to do the best steps for this game," Vanderbilt head coach Scott Limbaugh said on the phone Saturday night. "We're going to stand up and play. We have a good golf course, and we can't control a lot of things relative to the weather and a very good area.

“We have to be a little better than the last time we got out.”

If Commodores qualify, Limbaugh does not rule out Sargent's return to the NCAA championship.

Regardless of how he completes his college career, Sargent, 21, will be on the PGA Tour Tour this summer through the cards he earned through the acceleration program at PGA Tour University. He will debut with Florida State's Luke Clanton at the RBC Canadian Open next month at TPC Toronto, and promises he will be fully complete with the PGA tour by the end of next season.

Sargent chose to postpone his identity last summer so he could return to Vanderbilt’s high school season, but the past year or so year has been a tough year for the former world’s top top amateurs. In each of his first three seasons, he was a National and three-time Haskins Award finalist, while winning six titles, including the 2022 NCAA title. He is also a career scoring leader in the school in three seasons (69.56), but his average this season is 73.63, ranking last in the nine-player roster.

Sargent was in the last top ten of Northeast amateurs last July. He has only 30 in the eight college starts this season and has surpassed the top 50 in all five games this spring, including the T-75 in the SEC Championship. In his 24 rounds, he has calculated only 15 times this season in total in his first three seasons, which is the game this season.

He is currently ranked 522nd in the national university rankings and 19th in the world amateur golf rankings.

Sargent told Tennessee In the home game of Vanderbilt, Mason Rudolph Championships in April, he believes his struggles come from "changing something" early last summer in preparation for professional golf.

"Golf is a fun game," Sargent added in this post. "A bad shot can derail you a little. This is one of them, and if you have confidence in the results, it may always be disappointing."

Vanderbilt wasn't better than third in the season, though it wasn't better than eighth in a match where Sargent didn't play. Still, Commodores is ranked 18th in the national rankings, while Van Paris and Williams are ranked 23rd and 34th respectively, each with each named All-SEC second team. Towns and Broderick are in the top 200 respectively, while Nevins is ranked 480th in the United States.

"It feels like a new season and we need to appreciate these opportunities," Limbaugh added in a press release from the school. "I know this group has a desperate hope to compete and compete with purpose and belief. Only this time of year can there be talent, but it also requires roles, to have a group of people having fun and stick to our vandy standards. Remember, this is what everyone comes here to do, who they want to do, what they want to do is."