Michigan
Hoosier Collegiate
Wolverines to Travel to Bloomington for Hoosier Collegiate
4/5/2024 12:01:00 PM | Men's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's golf team is in the stretch run of its spring season and are off to Bloomington, Ind., on Saturday and Sunday (April 6-7) for Indiana's Hoosier Collegiate. The 54-hole event is scheduled to be played at the Pfau Golf Course at Indiana University with 14 teams in the field.
Notes
• U-M will travel five starters to the Hoosier Collegiate. Junior Hunter Thomson, redshirt-junior Ben Hoagland, senior Will Anderson, junior Yuqi Liu and redshirt-junior Jack O'Donnell will make up the Wolverines' starting five. Senior Jude Kim will join them as an individual.
• There will be 14 teams among the field for the Hoosier Collegiate, including Butler, DePaul, Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, High Point, Indiana (host), IUPUI, Michigan, Michigan State, Murray State, Northwestern (individuals only), Notre Dame, Purdue Fort Wayne, Rice, Southern Illinois and Valparaiso.
• Thomson is expected to make his 33rd consecutive start. He has not missed a tournament for U-M in three seasons. Anderson is set up to make his 23rd straight start and 37th of his 38-event career. Liu has started his last 18 events, while Hoagland has started all 10 tournaments this season.
• Michigan has two team titles this season -- the Island Resort Intercollegiate and the Virtues Intercollegiate -- while collecting seven top-five finishes in the eight total events. Individually, U-M has had four medalists with three runners-up. The Wolverines have posted 14 top-10 and 10 top-five individual finishes this season. Thomson has paced U-M, closing as the top Wolverine in six events.
• Including 11 straight to start the spring season, U-M has had 23 of its 27 team rounds below par with a season-low 273 (-15) in the second round of the Island Resort Intercollegiate. Overall, the Wolverines average 283.81 per team round. The Maize and Blue has posted six 54-hole events under par, including two sub-30 finishes -- 830 (-34) at the Virtues Intercollegiate and 834 (-30) at the Island Resort Intercollegiate.
• Thomson has posted a 69.48 scoring average, a U-M record pace. He fired 24 of his 27 rounds at or below par with a team-best 19 sub-par tallies. He has highlighted the season with a career-low 64 (-8) in the final round of the Palmas del Mar, which ties Michigan's second lowest single-round score record, and marks the second time a Wolverine has reached that mark after Hoagland fired a 64 (-8) in the second round of the Island Resort Intercollegiate (Sept. 3-4). No Wolverine has finished a season with a sub-70 scoring average.
• With those six sub-par 54-hole totals, Thomson is averaging 208.44 per event, nearly eight shots under par. Overall, he has 17 sub-par 54-hole totals in 32 career events. During his career, he has averaged nearly even par per event (215.87).
• Thomson's career-low 201 (68-69-64, -15) total at the Palmas del Mar tied the program's second lowest single-round total, trailing only Kyle Mueller's record 198 (69-65-65, -15) at the 2015 Alister MacKenzie Invitational. This season, Thomson has two of the top three best individual 54-hole totals in U-M history -- that 201 total and his 202 (71-65-66, -14) at the Island Resort Intercollegiate (Sept. 3-4).
• With 12 sub-par single round tallies, Hoagland is averaging a career-best pace of 71.67 per round, nearly four shots better than any prior season. His average sits as the third lowest in a season for a Wolverine. Hoagland has posted five sub-par 54-hole totals after recording just one in his two prior seasons. He set a career low with his 206 (-10) total in the season opener at the Island Resort Intercollegiate.
• Alongside Thomson (69.48) and Hoagland (71.67), a total of four Wolverines are averaging below 72 per round. Anderson adds his name to the list with his career-best pace of 71.96 per round which incldes 10 sub-par tallies, while Kim is at 71.71 with five sub-par rounds. With eight tallies of par or better, Liu is just behind with his career-low pace of 72.96, nearly four shots better than any of his prior two seasons.
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