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The Aggie Invitational
This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Aggie Invitational
4/3/2019 3:26:00 PM | Men's Golf
» Michigan heads to Bryan, Texas, for Texas A&M's Aggie Invitational at the Traditions Club.
» U-M will make its sixth straight trip to the event.
» Last year, the Wolverines posted a ninth-place team finish with a 900 tally in the event.
» U-M's Nick Carlson played in the 2016 (T-49th) and 2017 (T-50th) Aggie Invitational. He missed last year's event due to injury.
THIS WEEK
Sat-Sun., April 6-7 -- The Aggie Invitational (Bryan, Texas)
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Next on the Tee: The Aggie Invitational
With just two regular-season tournaments scheduled, the University of Michigan men's golf team heads to Bryan, Texas, Saturday and Sunday (April 6-7) for Texas A&M's Aggie Invitational -- the sixth straight year the Wolverines will play in the event. The two-day, 54-hole event will feature 12 teams playing at the Traditions Club. The course will be set up for a par 72 and 7,146 yards.
The Aggie Invitational Field
There will be 12 teams competing at the Aggie Invitational, including -- Arizona State, Baylor, Kent State, LSU, Michigan, New Mexico, New Mexico State, North Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Washington.
The Aggie Invitational Schedule
Thursday, April 4 -- Travel Day
Friday, April 5 -- Practice Round (18) tee times starting at 8 a.m. CDT
Saturday, April 6 -- First Round (18) begins with tee times at 7:30 a.m. CDT
Saturday, April 6 -- Second Round (18) continuous play after completion of first round
Sunday, April 7 -- Final Round (18) begins with tee times at 7:30 a.m. CDT
The Michigan Lineup at the Aggie Invitational
The Wolverines will travel five starters to the Aggie Invitational. The starting five will include senior Nick Carlson, freshman Ben Dunne, sophomore Henry Spring, junior Brent Ito and sophomore Charlie Pilon.
History at the Aggie Invitational
• April 5-6, 2014: Michigan tied for ninth at 926. The Maize and Blue featured a pair of top-25 finishers in Noori Hyun (tie-19th, 226) and Chris O'Neill (tie-21st, 227). [ Recap ]
• April 4-5, 2015: Paced by top-30 finishes from Kyle Mueller (T-21st), 225 and O'Neill (T-29th, 228), Michigan was ninth with a 919 total. The Wolverines got off to a slow start, opening with a 318 total, before rebounding with team tallies of 302 and 299. [ Recap ]
• April 2-3, 2016: Michigan used three top-20 finishes to finish eighth with an 887 total. Chris O'Neill led tying for 10th (217), while Kyle Mueller tied for 16th (219) and Reed Hrynewich tied for 20th (222). U-M descended its team tallies -- 304, 296 and 287 and finished eighth. [ Recap ]
• April 1-2, 2017: With the event cut short due to weather, Kyle Mueller used back-to-back rounds of 69 to claim medalist honors as U-M tied for ninth with a 594 total. [ Recap ]
• April 7-8, 2018: U-M finished ninth with a 900 total, while Kyle Mueller led U-M with a fifth-place individual finish [ Recap ]
Wolverine Bites
• Nick Carlson is expected to start his 43rd career event at the Aggie Invitational. The rest of the Wolverines expected starter's combines for 51 total starts -- Charlie Pilon (17), Brent Ito (15), Henry Spring (13) and Ben Dunne (six).
• Nick Carlson continues to lead the Wolverines in scoring with his 73.33 per round average. He leads U-M with seven sub-par round including a career-low-tying 67 (-4) in the final round of the Fighting Irish Classic -- the fourth time in his career. After Carlson, Henry Spring is second at 73.61, while Charlie Pilon is third at 74.05 followed by Brent Ito's 74.10.
• Freshman Ben Dunne has turned up his play in his second semester of play, leading U-M in the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate (t-28th; career-low) on March 9-10. He posted back-to-back career-low 54-hole totals of 223 at the Gator Invitational (Feb. 16-17) and then the Desert Mountain. He also has shot a career-low 73 four times over his last seven rounds, averaging 75.22 per round. During the first semester, he started two events and averaged 81.0 per round.
• After missing several months with an ankle injury, Patrick Sullivan returned to the lineup at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate. With a 225 tally, he tied for 37th. After opening with a 77 and 78, he found his rhythm posting a career-low 70 (-2) in the final round. He is averaging 75.93 per round in his first season starting the five events he has participated in.
• U-M is averaging 294.38 per round as a team. So far this season the Wolverines have improved as each event goes on as they have averaged 299.29 in opening rounds. The Maize and Blue improves by four shots in the second round -- 295.71 -- and have closed seven shots lower than the second round with a near even-par average of 288.14.
• Using the career-low final rounds by Brent Ito (64, -7), Charlie Pilon (65, -6) and Nick Carlson (67, -4) in the final round of the Fighting Irish Classic, Michigan set a new team single-round tally of 267 (-17). The amazing score lowered the previous best tally by three shots -- 270 (-14) totaled in the final round of the 2016 Inverness Intercollegiate (Sept. 20) -- which was paced by a Carlson 67 (-4).
• Brent Ito recorded the second-lowest round in program history with his 64 (-7) in the final round of the Fighting Irish Classic (Oct. 8). Ito used seven birdies and 11 pars to record his career-best round and lower it by three shots. It is the fifth time a 64 has been recorded by a Wolverine golfer and was a single shot away from the U-M record 63 (-7) from former All-American Kyle Mueller (2015-18).
U-M Record Rounds
63 (-7), second, Kyle Mueller 2017 Jerry Pate Intercollegiate (Oct. 9-10)
64 (-7), third, Brent Ito 2018 Fighting Irish Classic (Oct. 7-8)
64 (-7), second, Kyle Mueller 2015 Alister MacKenzie Invite (Oct. 12-13)
64 (-8), second, Bill Rankin 2008 Bridgestone Intercollegiate (Oct. 27-28)
64 (-7), second, Christian Vozza 2005 Alister MacKenzie Invite (Oct. 10-11)
64 (-7), second, Michael Harris 1998 Northern Intercollegiate (Sept. 18-19)
• With his final round 64 (-7) at the Fighting Irish Classic, Brent Ito went on to record a career-best 207 (-6) 54-hole tournament total as well as his first career top 20 finish -- tying for 15th. In addition to Ito's career-lows at the Warren Golf Course, Nick Carlson tied his career low with a 67 (-4) in the final round, as did Charlie Pilon, who posted a career-low 65 (-6) in the final round. Pilon's tally also led to a career-low 211 (-2) 54-hole tournament total.
• After spending his first three years on U-M's Club Team, fifth-year senior Ian Martin went undefeated at the Big Ten Match Play (Feb. 8-9) with a 3-0-1 record in his first varsity event. In his first stroke play event, He got off to a slow start, but rallied in the final round shooting a career-best 69 (-1) -- the Wolverines' ninth sub-70 round of the season. He has started two of his three events and averaged 76.17 per round.
Up Next
• Sat-Sun., April 13-14 -- Boilermaker Invitational (West Lafayette, Ind.)
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