KANSAS CITY, Mo. – After five-consecutive ratings at No. 1 in the 2025-26 regular season and a top 10 finish in the 2026 NAIA Men’s Golf National Championship, Keiser (Fla.) is the No. 1 team to start the 2026-27 season in the NAIA Men’s Golf Coaches’ Top 25, released August 21.
The Seahawks collected 13 first-place votes, 30 points better than No. 2 Friends (Kan.), as the Falcons appeared at No. 1 on four of the 18 ballots cast. Reinhardt (Ga.), in a tie at No. 5 with Webber International (Fla.), picked up the 18th first-place nod in the rating, while Dalton State (Ga.) and Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) are No. 3 and No. 4, respectively. Lindsey Wilson is one point ahead of the fifth-place tie between Reinhardt and Webber. One tie existed in the preseason rating, at No. 12, between Wayland Baptist (Texas) and Victoria (B.C.).
Friday’s rating is the first of seven this season in NAIA men’s golf, including two fall ratings – Oct. 16 and Oct. 30 – and a spring ratings schedule that begins March 25, concluding with the final rating of the season May 6 ahead of the 2027 NAIA Men’s Golf National Championship, in Fayeteville, Ga.
| RANK | INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keiser (Fla.) [13] | 473 |
| 2 | Friends (Kan.) [4] | 443 |
| 3 | Dalton State (Ga.) | 433 |
| 4 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 425 |
| T-5 | Reinhardt (Ga.) [1] | 424 |
| T-5 | Webber International (Fla.) | 424 |
| 7 | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 381 |
| 8 | Missouri Valley | 356 |
| 9 | Coastal Georgia | 330 |
| 10 | Texas Wesleyan | 297 |
| 11 | Marian (Ind.) | 293 |
| T-12 | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | 282 |
| T-12 | Victoria (B.C.) | 282 |
| 14 | Science & Arts (Okla.) | 264 |
| 15 | British Columbia | 263 |
| 16 | Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.) | 255 |
| 17 | Grand View (Iowa) | 246 |
| 18 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 224 |
| 19 | Indiana Wesleyan | 192 |
| 20 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 143 |
| 21 | William Carey (Miss.) | 123 |
| 22 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 103 |
| 23 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 74 |
| 24 | Morningside (Iowa) | 60 |
| 25 | William Woods (Mo.) | 56 |
Receiving Votes: Bellevue (Neb.), Columbia (Mo.), Cumberland (Tenn.), Embry-Riddle (Ariz.), Hastings (Neb.), IU East (Ind.), MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), Mount Mercy (Iowa), Northwestern (Iowa), Northwestern Ohio, Point (Ga.), Southwest (N.M.).
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