Indiana University Athletics
Monday, October 26
Vero Beach, Fla.
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Indiana University
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Quail Valley Collegiate
Hoosiers In Florida for Quail Valley Invitational
10/25/2015 6:02:00 PM | Men's Golf
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana men's golf team leaves the Midwest for the first time this Fall when they travel to Vero Beach, Florida to compete in the Quail Valley Invitational at Quail Valley Golf Club.
The tournament features 36 holes on Monday followed by 18 holes on Tuesday.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Quail Valley Golf Club • Vero Beach, Fla.
Par 72 • 7,350 yards
Live Scoring: BirdieFire.com
PARTICIPATING TEAMS
McNeese (host), Connecticut, Indiana, Jacksonville, Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Michigan State, Mississippi State, North Carolina State, North Florida, North Texas, Rice, Stephen F. Austin, South Dakota State, West Virginia
INDIANA LINEUP
The Hoosiers will send five guys to compete towards the team score and also have two individual competing. The lineup for the weekend looks like this along with their scoring averages so far this season:
1) Brendon Doyle (Soph., 75.08)
2) Jake Brown (R-Fr., 75.58)
3) Keegan Vea (Jr., 75.92)
4) Andrew Havill (Jr. 76.17)
5) Max Kollin (Sr., 76.25)
STEADY TEAM IMPROVEMENT
After opening the season with a 13th place finish at the Northern Intercollegiate with a score of 920, the Hoosiers came back the following week at Olympia Fields and registered a score of 880 and a tie for 12th place. Then, the last time out, they put together a team effort that resulted in a seventh place finish out of 14 teams.
DOYLE BRINGS CONSISTENCY
Sophomore Brendon Doyle has been the Hoosiers' most consistent performer through the first four tournaments of the season. His scoring average of 75.08 is half of a stroke better than the next best. He has also posted scores of 75 or better in seven of his 12 rounds this year. In the four tournaments this year, Doyle has finished first or second on the team three times.
BROWN BRINGS IT
Redshirt freshman Jake Brown wasted little time etching his name into the IU record book when he posted a 5-under par score of 66 in his final round at the Windon Memorial the last time he was on the course.
His final round score of 5-under par 66 marked the best round by a Hoosier since David Mills carded a 66 in his second round at the NYX Hoosier Invitational on April 6, 2013. It is also the best score by an IU freshman since David Erdy registered a 65 on March 22, 2009 at the Collegiate Match Play qualifier in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
HAVILL HAS IT IN FINAL ROUND
Indiana junior Andrew Havill did not get off to the start he had hoped for in the first tournament of the year at Rich Harvest Farms, posting a score of 81 in round one. But he reversed that trend over the next two rounds, recording rounds of 75 and 71, respectively.
The his final round score of 71 was his best single round score since February of his freshman year when he posted a 68 at the Snowman Getaway in Arizona. It was also the best round of any IU golfer at the tournament.
Another strong final round for Havill came in round three of the Crooked Stick Intercollegiate, where he carded a score of 77 when the average score for the round was 79.6, as the wind picked up during the day and made scoring difficult.
NEW FACES
The true freshman class for the Hoosiers features just one player – Trevor Ranton from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. But there are two other players that sat out last year and are redshirt freshmen this year in Jake Brown and Jack Sparrow.
Ranton joins the Hoosiers after a decorated junior career and a stellar summer season where he won the CN Future Links Pacific Championship as well as the GAO Ontario Junior Amateur after opening both of those tournaments with a score of 65 en route to the win. He also posted four other Top 25 finishes at various tournaments in Canada and Japan.
Brown, a native of Carmel, Indiana, did not compete in any events last season as a true freshman on the team, but produced outstanding results in summer tournaments leading up to the 2015-16 season with the Hoosiers. He won the Indiana Open Championship qualifier with a round of 65 at The Legends Golf Course and then went on to tie for 14th in the Indiana Open. He continued his strong play at the US Amateur qualifier at Prairie View, finishing in a tie for eight place. Then at the Northern Amateur, he posted three rounds of 74 and tied for 29th in that prestigious tournament.
Jack Sparrow, like Brown, did not compete for the Hoosiers as a true freshman, but produced results this past summer. The Floyds Knob, Indiana, product was third at the Indiana Amateur qualifier and then finished eighth at the Indiana Open qualifier before matching that finish in the Indiana Open with two rounds in the 60s (68, 69). He wrapped up his summer with a 10th place finish at the Northern Amateur with scores of 72-69-75.
The tournament features 36 holes on Monday followed by 18 holes on Tuesday.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Quail Valley Golf Club • Vero Beach, Fla.
Par 72 • 7,350 yards
Live Scoring: BirdieFire.com
PARTICIPATING TEAMS
McNeese (host), Connecticut, Indiana, Jacksonville, Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Michigan State, Mississippi State, North Carolina State, North Florida, North Texas, Rice, Stephen F. Austin, South Dakota State, West Virginia
INDIANA LINEUP
The Hoosiers will send five guys to compete towards the team score and also have two individual competing. The lineup for the weekend looks like this along with their scoring averages so far this season:
1) Brendon Doyle (Soph., 75.08)
2) Jake Brown (R-Fr., 75.58)
3) Keegan Vea (Jr., 75.92)
4) Andrew Havill (Jr. 76.17)
5) Max Kollin (Sr., 76.25)
STEADY TEAM IMPROVEMENT
After opening the season with a 13th place finish at the Northern Intercollegiate with a score of 920, the Hoosiers came back the following week at Olympia Fields and registered a score of 880 and a tie for 12th place. Then, the last time out, they put together a team effort that resulted in a seventh place finish out of 14 teams.
DOYLE BRINGS CONSISTENCY
Sophomore Brendon Doyle has been the Hoosiers' most consistent performer through the first four tournaments of the season. His scoring average of 75.08 is half of a stroke better than the next best. He has also posted scores of 75 or better in seven of his 12 rounds this year. In the four tournaments this year, Doyle has finished first or second on the team three times.
BROWN BRINGS IT
Redshirt freshman Jake Brown wasted little time etching his name into the IU record book when he posted a 5-under par score of 66 in his final round at the Windon Memorial the last time he was on the course.
His final round score of 5-under par 66 marked the best round by a Hoosier since David Mills carded a 66 in his second round at the NYX Hoosier Invitational on April 6, 2013. It is also the best score by an IU freshman since David Erdy registered a 65 on March 22, 2009 at the Collegiate Match Play qualifier in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
HAVILL HAS IT IN FINAL ROUND
Indiana junior Andrew Havill did not get off to the start he had hoped for in the first tournament of the year at Rich Harvest Farms, posting a score of 81 in round one. But he reversed that trend over the next two rounds, recording rounds of 75 and 71, respectively.
The his final round score of 71 was his best single round score since February of his freshman year when he posted a 68 at the Snowman Getaway in Arizona. It was also the best round of any IU golfer at the tournament.
Another strong final round for Havill came in round three of the Crooked Stick Intercollegiate, where he carded a score of 77 when the average score for the round was 79.6, as the wind picked up during the day and made scoring difficult.
NEW FACES
The true freshman class for the Hoosiers features just one player – Trevor Ranton from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. But there are two other players that sat out last year and are redshirt freshmen this year in Jake Brown and Jack Sparrow.
Ranton joins the Hoosiers after a decorated junior career and a stellar summer season where he won the CN Future Links Pacific Championship as well as the GAO Ontario Junior Amateur after opening both of those tournaments with a score of 65 en route to the win. He also posted four other Top 25 finishes at various tournaments in Canada and Japan.
Brown, a native of Carmel, Indiana, did not compete in any events last season as a true freshman on the team, but produced outstanding results in summer tournaments leading up to the 2015-16 season with the Hoosiers. He won the Indiana Open Championship qualifier with a round of 65 at The Legends Golf Course and then went on to tie for 14th in the Indiana Open. He continued his strong play at the US Amateur qualifier at Prairie View, finishing in a tie for eight place. Then at the Northern Amateur, he posted three rounds of 74 and tied for 29th in that prestigious tournament.
Jack Sparrow, like Brown, did not compete for the Hoosiers as a true freshman, but produced results this past summer. The Floyds Knob, Indiana, product was third at the Indiana Amateur qualifier and then finished eighth at the Indiana Open qualifier before matching that finish in the Indiana Open with two rounds in the 60s (68, 69). He wrapped up his summer with a 10th place finish at the Northern Amateur with scores of 72-69-75.
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