Trio Of Hoosiers at Rocket Individual Invite

Oct. 26, 2014

THIS WEEK
Oct. 27-28, 2014 -- Rocket Individual Invitational
Golf Course: Belmont Country Club (Toledo, Ohio)
Par/Yardage: Par 72 / 6,918 yards
Indiana Season Stats: Through Oct. 21

INDIANA PARTICIPANTS (Year | 2014-15 scoring avg.)
Will Seger | Sophomore | (78.77)
Keegan Vea | Sophomore | (First Tournament)
Andrew Havill | Sophomore | (78.33)

THE FIELD:
Golfers from Bowling Green State University, Indiana, Kent State, Toledo and Valparaiso will be competing.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The tournament is an individual-only tournament, and no team score will be kept. The participants will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday (weather permitting), starting at 10:00 a.m. each day.

PLAYING WITH CONFIDENCE
The Hoosiers are coming off their best team performance of the season at the Sagamore Fall Preview, finishing in seventh place out of 14 teams. Indiana opened with a team score of 299, marking the first time this season that they posted a score under 300. But they followed that up with a 297 in the second round - the best team score for a single round this season. All totaled, four players posted their top individual finishes of the year at the Sagamore Preview.

KOLLIN CLIMING THE RANKS
Junior Max Kollin has steadily been improving since a rocky start to the fall schedule. He opened his season with three rounds in the 80s at the Northern Intercollegiate and a 72nd place finish. The next time out - at Wolf Run - he finished T48 with rounds of 77-81-75. He registered his best finish of the season at the Sagamore Fall Preview, coming in T26 after carding his best round of the season - a 72 in round two. Then last time out, at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational, a tournament that had 11 of the 15 teams ranked inside the top 50 in the country, Kollin opened with a 74 before logging 72 and 71 in his final two rounds to tie for 40th place in one of the best fields of the season.

FAIRBANKS FINISHES T12
Indiana freshman Christian Fairbanks used a second round score of 72 (E) to vault up the leaderboard at the Sagamore Preview in Noblesville, Ind. He finished T12 in the tournament, the best finish of his career and the best finish by an IU freshman since Will Seger's T4 finish at the NYX Hoosier Invitational last year.

GIVE IT UP FOR GRUB
Senior Nicholas Grubnich has started his final collegiate campaign with a couple of strong showings in very good fields. He opened the season with a T4 finish at the Northern Intercollegiate played at Rich Harvest Farms. He opened with a round of 77, but rallied to post scores of 72 and 69 and surge up the leaderboard. So far this season, Grubnich has posted rounds of 75 or better six times.

Over the summer, Grubnich claimed the Indiana state amateur title and earned a spot in the U.S. Amateur at the Atlanta Athletic Club. All of that comes on the heels of his T7 finish at the Big Ten Championship last spring.

KEEPING THE LINEUP "FRESH"
In each of the first four tournaments, head coach Mike Mayer has had two freshmen in the lineup. It started at the Northern Intercollegiate where Brendon Doyle and Christian Fairbanks made their collegiate debuts. The following week, Matt Weber joined Doyle in the lineup at Olympia Fields and those same two were in the lineup at Wolf Run. Then at Sagamore, Weber and Fairbanks were in the lineup while Doyle competed as an individual.

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