Michigan
Boilermaker Invitational
Wolverines to Close Regular Season at Purdue's Team, Individual Invitationals
4/16/2025 1:37:00 PM | Men's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- With the regular-season finale on tap for the University of Michigan men's golf team, the Maize and Blue heads to West Lafayette, Ind., and the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on Saturday and Sunday (April 19-20) for not only Purdue's main team invitational, but a secondary individual event. U-M's main starting five will play 54 holes (36-18) on the Ackerman-Allen Golf Course (par 71, 7,275 yards), while three Wolverine individuals will play 54 holes (36-18) on the Kampen Course (par 72, 7,465 yards).
Notes
• There will be 18 teams competing at the 2025 Purdue Invitational, including Ball State, Bowling Green, Butler, DePaul, Georgetown, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Marquette, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Purdue, South Dakota, South Dakota State and Toledo.
• Michigan's starting five will include senior Hunter Thomson, freshman Dean Muratore, freshman RJ Arone, fifth-year senior Ben Hoagland and senior Yuqi Liu. Playing in Purdue's individual event will be fifth-year senior Jack O'Donnell, freshman Nicolas Simon and freshman Johnny Solis.
• With a season-low 847 (-17), Michigan recorded a runner-up finish at the Buckeye Classic. Thomson posted his fourth straight sub-par 54-hole total and seventh of the season as his 207 (-9; 67-68-72) earned him his third runner-up finish. Overall, U-M placed three Wolverines among the top 10, with Liu tied for fourth (210, -6) and Muratore tied for eighth (214, -2). The Buckeye Classic replaced the canceled Hoosier Collegiate on U-M's spring calendar.
• Thomson continues to be on pace to set the U-M single-season record with his career-best 70.07 scoring average, which would break his U-M record of 70.56 (2023-24). This season, he has 17 sub-par rounds, including a season-best 66 (-6) in back-to-back rounds (first, second) in his win at the Canadian Collegiate Invitational. Thomson has 59 of 133 (44 percent) career rounds under par.
• Thomson has led the Wolverines in nine of U-M's 10 events, including winning the Canadian Collegiate Invitational and posting three runner-up finishes at the Qubein Cup, the Desert Mountain Collegiate and the Buckeye Classic. He has finished as the top Wolverine in 32 of his 46 (70 percent) career events. Over his last two seasons, Thomson has produced 17 of his 24 top-10 finishes.
• Highlighting the fall season, Thomson's victory at the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (202, -14) not only helped him to his second career medalist honor but also awarded him an exemption to play in the 2025 RBC Canadian Open (June 3-5) at the TPC of Toronto.
• Liu is averaging a career-low 72.42 in nine starts. He has nine sub-par rounds, with six of those in the spring season. So far, he has tied his career-low 68 (-4) three times at the Island Resort Intercollegiate (final), the Virtues Intercollegiate (second) and the Palmas del Mar Collegiate (second). In the fall, Liu tied for medalist honors at the Virtues Intercollegiate (137, -7).
• U-M's freshman duo of Muratore and Arone has continued to make strides and impacts in their first seasons. Both have played in all 10 events this season, with Muratore holding a slight edge in scoring average, 73.00 to 73.52. Muratore has two top-10 finishes, while Arone has one.
• Michigan has seven top-five team finishes in its 10 events, including a team win at the Virtues Intercollegiate (559, -17) and runner-up finishes at the Canadian Collegiate (852, -12) and the Buckeye Classic (847, -17). U-M averages 287.41 per round with 13 team totals under par, including its season-low 275 (-13) tallied in the final round of the Palmas del Mar Collegiate.
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