KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has officially released the qualifier field for the 59th Annual NAIA Men's Golf National Championships and the Wayland Baptist Pioneer team has made the field for the eighth straight year.

The national championship tournament will be held May 18 - 21 at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill. Pairings for the event will be announced Friday at 3:30 p.m. CDT.

The 156-player championships field is comprised of 21 automatic qualifying teams from NAIA affiliated conferences/unaffiliated groupings and seven at-large selections, which are determined using the final Top 25 rating released on April 30. The Pioneers, which were ranked #9 in the final NAIA poll, received one of the at-large bids.

Other Sooner Athletic Conference schools earning bids to the tourney were top-ranked Oklahoma City, #2 Oklahoma Christian and #8 Southern Nazarene University.