Hoosier surge falls short
After standing in ninth place after the first two rounds, the IU men's golf team finished sixth in the Warrior-Wave Intercollegiate Wednesday after shooting the team's lowest single-round score of the season.
After standing in ninth place after the first two rounds, the IU men's golf team finished sixth in the Warrior-Wave Intercollegiate Wednesday after shooting the team's lowest single-round score of the season.
After the second round of play Monday in the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational, the IU men's golf team still sits in last place, 37 strokes behind No. 1 California.
One-time Hoosier golfer Jeff Overton returns to play a PGA event in his home state for the first time this weekend.
The annual Tee Up Against Cancer Golf Outing has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 12, after originally being scheduled for early July, outing co-chairs Phyllis Davidson and Betty Nelson announced Friday.
Former IU Assistant Men’s Golf Coach Jamie Broce was named head men’s golf coach at the University of Toledo, Rockets Athletic Director Mike O’Brien announced Tuesday.
They’re no stranger to topping the leaderboard. In the past two stroke-play events, IU played in contention but fell to third place in the end.
At both the NYX Hoosier Invitational and the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate, the squad placed third among 15 teams. The Hoosiers will look to take their first title of the spring season Saturday and Sunday at the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette.
The Hoosiers sat in third place after three rounds of play at their home course April 8, with an aura of disappointment when Northwestern took the team title. Lessons were learned in the squad’s first stroke-play event of the spring, which will be followed by the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate on Saturday and Sunday.
I will be the first to admit I am not an avid golf fan, despite the best efforts of my late grandfather.
At its first stroke play event of the season, the IU men's golf team placed third with a one-over-par 853. Northwestern finished victorious with an 11-under-par 841 at the 54-hole stroke play tournament Saturday and Sunday. The Hoosiers trailed by one stroke to second-place IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Returning to familiar territory after two events on the road, the squad will be the home team for the NYX Hoosier Invitational at the IU Golf Course.
Traveling to the city of the Masters for the PGA Tour, the IU women’s golf team ventured to Augusta, Ga., for the Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate.The squad placed seventh in the 54-hole stroke play event at Forest Hills Golf Club.
The squad prevailed at the Westbrook Invitational on Feb. 26 and 27 to make their first top-five finish of the season, posting a tournament-total 879. Sitting in 86th for the GolfWeek/Sagarin Rankings, the Hoosiers tied for fifth with No. 77 Iowa.
As Tiger Woods and Tony Romo pair as the dream team for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the IU men’s golf team will await its first opponent at the Big Ten Match Play Championship on Feb. 10 and 11.
The IU women’s golf team is in 10th place after 36 holes in the two-day Challenge at Onion Creek in Austin, Texas.
IU will be among 13 teams, including Texas Tech, Michigan and Xavier. Onion Creek is a par-70 course that had the first Senior PGA Tour event in 1978 and the LPGA Tour Event from 1999 to 2001.
The Hoosiers capped off their final event of the season with a fourth-place finish at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational.
Last Time: With junior Brant Peaper firing a low 65 and senior co-captain Chase Wright making his third top-10 finish of the season, the IU men’s golf team posted its season-best 11-over-par 851 last week at the Windon Memorial.
After posting 317-307 Monday, the Hoosiers dropped strokes in the final round to finish at 302, totaling 926 for the tournament. IU placed fifth, 14 strokes behind first-place Eastern Michigan and two strokes behind fourth-place Nebraska.
The IU men's golf team tied with UCLA for second at the Windon Memorial Classic.