Maize & Blue Readies for Inverness Intercollegiate in Toledo

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's golf team will head to Toledo, Ohio, on Monday and Tuesday (Sept. 9-10) for Toledo's Inverness Intercollegiate, which features a 14-team field with five among the preseason top 25. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played at the famed Inverness Club.

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• The 2024 Inverness Intercollegiate will be comprised of 14 teams, including No. 1 Auburn, Cal Poly, No. 40 Clemson, College of Charleston, No. t-36 Louisville, Michigan, No. 12 Oklahoma, Purdue, No. t-41 SMU, No. 15 Texas Tech, Toledo, No. 4 Vanderbilt, No. 6 Virginia and No. 31 Wake Forest. (GCAA Preseason poll)

• U-M will travel six to Toledo for the Inverness Intercollegiate. The Wolverines will use their practice round to determine the starting five and assigned individual. Heading to Toledo will be seniors Yuqi Liu and Hunter Thomson, fifth-year senior Ben Hoagland, sophomore Caden Pinckes and freshmen RJ Arone and Dean Muratore.

• The Inverness Intercollegiate will have YouTube coverage available on Monday on holes 12 and 18. Coverage is expected to begin at 10 a.m. and last until late afternoon and includes a running leaderboard, score graphics and natural sound. On Tuesday, ESPN+ will provide coverage beginning at noon and stay on air through the conclusion of the tournament. They will be covering Holes 12, 15, 16, 17, and 18 as well as doing live interviews with golfers and coaches after they've finished No. 18.

• Michigan makes its ninth Inverness Intercollegiate appearance. U-M competed in the inaugural event in 2000, tying for 9th (306-298-305/909). Playing as an individual, former Wolverine Scott Hayes won the event in a scorecard playoff after finishing with an even-par 213 (71-72-70). Seven years later, the Wolverines returned to the event in 2007 finishing 15th (909). The Maize and Blue have made six more trips to the Rockets home event -- 2011 (t-7th, 301); 2012 (t-9th, 900); 2015 (3rd, 884), 2016 (3rd, 862), 2017 (T-3rd, 565) and 2019 (9th, 883).

• At the 2016 event, former Wolverine 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 hole to claim the outright title. In 2015, former Wolverine Kyle Mueller was the medalist runner-up with a 214 (70-74-70).

• The Inverness Club is a historic place for the Wolverines. After advancing out of the Southwest Regional, U-M headed to the Inverness Club for the 2009 NCAA Finals. Finishing sixth (296-285-287/868) in the stroke play team qualifier, U-M was a national semifinalist in the new match-play format to determine the team champion. Michigan defeated USC, 3-2, in the quarterfinal, before losing to eventual national champion Texas A&M 3-1-1 in the semifinal. [ NCAA Finals | MP: USC | MP: Texas A&M ]

• The Inverness Club was founded in 1903 and along with the University of Toledo served as host for the 2009 NCAA Men's Golf Championships. Inverness will host the 2027 U.S. Women's Open, the 2029 U.S. Amateur and has also hosted four U.S. Opens, two U.S. Senior Opens, two PGA Championships and one U.S. Amateur, one U.S. Junior Amateur and the 2021 Solheim Cup.