Michigan
Inverness Intercollegiate
This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Inverness Intercollegiate
9/21/2019 5:45:00 PM | Men's Golf
» Michigan heads to Toledo, Ohio, for the Rockets Inverness Intercollegiate at the Inverness Club.
» Tuesday's final round will be broadcast live on ESPN3 at noon.
» Senior Brent Ito, who will start at U-M's No. 1 spot, posted his first career top 10 finish (T9th)to open the season at last week's Windon Memorial Classic.
THIS WEEK
Mon-Tue, Sept. 23-24 -- at Inverness Intercollegiate (Toledo, Ohio)
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Next on the Tee: Inverness Intercollegiate
The University of Michigan men's golf team will play its second of five fall events when the Wolverines travel down US-23 to Toledo, Ohio, for the Rockets' Inverness Intercollegiate at the Inverness Club. The 15-team field will play 54 holes over the two-day event with 36 holes on Monday and a final 18 on Tuesday. The course will be set up for a par 71 and 7,122 yards.
The Inverness Intercollegiate Field
There will be 15 teams in the field at the Inverness Intercollegiate, including Auburn, Kennesaw State, Kent State, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, UNC-Wilmington, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Ohio State, St. Mary's, Tennessee, Texas Tech and host Toledo. Selected teams will be granted an individual, including U-M.
The Inverness Intercollegiate Classic Lineup
Michigan will bring a five-member starting squad and one invited individual for the Inverness Intercollegiate.
• Senior Brent Ito (17th career start)
• Junior Charlie Pilon (21st career start)
• Junior Henry Spring (17th career start)
• Sophomore Ben Dunne (10th career start)
• Sophomore Patrick Sullivan (ninth career start)
• Freshman Kevin Healy (individual)
The Inverness Intercollegiate Schedule
Sunday, Sept. 22 -- Travel Day & Practice Round (18), 1 p.m. (shotgun)
Monday, Sept. 23 -- First Round (18), 8:45 a.m. (shotgun, starting on Nos. 10-13); Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Tuesday, Sept. 24 -- Final Round (18), 8 a.m. (tee times off No. 1 and 10)
The Inverness Intercollegiate History
• Michigan has made six Inverness Intercollegiate appearances since the tournament began.
• U-M competed in the inaugural event in 2000, tying for ninth (306-298-305/909). Playing as an individual, Scott Hayes won the event in a scorecard playoff after he finished with an even-par 213 (71-72-70). Seven years later the Wolverines returned to the event in 2007 finishing 15th (909).
• Over the past six years, the Maize and Blue has made four trips to the Rockets' home event -- 2011 (T7th, 301); 2012 (T9th, 900); 2015 (3rd, 884), 2016 (3rd, 862) and 2017 (T-3rd, 565)
• At the 2016 event, Nick Carlson used a final-round 67 (-4), to share the co-medalist honors with Duke's Jake Shuman and set the event's 54-hole record with 209 totals. In an individual playoff, Carlson parred the first playoff hole to claim the outright title over. In 2015, Kyle Mueller was the medalist runner-up with a one-over 214 (70-74-70).
• Michigan's 270 (-14) in the final round in 2016 set the U-M and Inverness Intercollegiate single-round record, breaking the U-M mark by two shots and Inverness' by seven
• The Wolverines paid a visit to the Inverness Club during the 2009 NCAA Championships. They finished sixth (296-285-287/868) in the stroke play team qualifier, and U-M was as a national semifinalist in the new match play format to determine the team champion. Michigan defeated USC, 3-2, in the quarterfinal, before they fell to eventual national champion Texas A&M, 3-1-1, in the semifinal. [ NCAA Finals | MP: USC | MP: Texas A&M ]
Wolverine Bites
• In the season-opening Windon Memorial Classic, senior Brent Ito posted his first career top 10 individual finish after he tied for ninth with a 212 (-1) 54-hole total -- just his second career sub-par event finish. He surpassed his previous best of a tie for 15th at the 2018 Fighting Irish Classic where he posted a career-low 207 (-6), which included a final round 64 (-7) -- tying the second lowest round in program history. The Wolverines will head back to Notre Dame's event to start October.
• This season, Michigan is under the guidance of new head coach Zach Barlow, who spent the last five seasons at Illinois. Over that span, Barlow helped Mike Small guide Illinois to five consecutive Big Ten titles, three NCAA regional championships while the Illini advanced to five consecutive NCAA finals and made it to the match play semifinal three times. [ Release ]
• In addition to the hiring of Barlow, the Wolverines welcome his college teammate Matt Hoffman as his assistant coach. After a six-year professional career, Hoffman spent the last two years as an assistant coach with one of Canada's most prestigious golf programs at Humber College (2017-19) in Toronto. In his two seasons, the Hawks won back-to-back Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) championships and were second in the 2019 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) championships after a third-place finish in 2018. [ Release ]
• U-M has 41 NCAA postseason appearances with 13 regional stops since the format changed to regional play in 1989. The Wolverines have participated as a team in six Central Regionals (1995, 1997, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2011), two Washington Regionals (2015, 2017), the Southwest Regional (2009) and the Franklin Regional (2016). The Wolverines add three regional invitations in 2012 (Matt Thompson), 2014 (Chris O'Neill) and 2018 (Kyle Mueller).
Up Next
• Mon-Tue., Oct. 7-8 -- at Fighting Irish Classic (South Bend, Ind.)
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