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THIS WEEK
March 15-16, 2015 -- Talis Park Challenge
Golf Course: Talis Park Golf Club
Location: Naples, Fla.
Par/Yardage: Par 71, 6,891 yards
Live Scoring: BirdieFire.com
Indiana Season Stats: 2014-15 Season
INDIANA PARTICIPANTS (Year | 2014-15 scoring avg.)
Max Kollin | Junior | 77.27
Brendon Doyle | Freshman | 77.82
Andrew Havill | Sophomore | 78.16
Will Seger | Sophomore | 78.50
Andrew Fogg | Senior |
75.88
Nicholas Grubnich | Senior | 75.79
THE FIELD:
Akron
Ball State
Eastern Michigan
FGCU
Indiana
LSU
Miami (OH)
Michigan State
Northern Illinois
Notre Dame
Texas A&M
Toledo
Vanderbilt
Wichita State
Xavier
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The teams will play 36 holes on Sunday followed by 18 holes on Monday. Both days will feature a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. ET.
AT THE BIG TEN MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
The Hoosiers went 1-3 at the Big Ten Match Play Championship, capping it off with a 2-1-2 win against Nebraska on the final day. The first day saw IU fall to Northwestern by a 3-1-1 score after holding leads in three matches coming down the stretch. That same day, a tough Penn State handed the Hoosiers a 4-1 loss.
Then on the second day, Indiana lost to Michigan State by a score of 4-1 before coming back to get the win over Nebraska. In that match against the Cornhuskers, Keegan Vea and Brendon Doyle both won their matches while Max Kollin and Matt Weber halved their matches.
BEST TEAM SCORE OF THE SEASON
In the final team tournament of the fall, the Hoosiers posted their best team score of the season to date, coming in with a score of 882 at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational.
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, 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 five tournaments, head coach Mike Mayer has had two freshmen in the lineup.
Northern Intercollegiate: Brendon Doyle, Christian Fairbanks
Olympia Fields: Brendon Doyle, Matt Weber
Wolf Run: Brendon Doyle, Matt Weber
Sagamore: Matt Weber, Christian Fairbanks, Brendon Doyle (Individual)
Tavistock: Matt Weber, Christian Fairbanks
Big Ten Match Play: Brendon Doyle, Matt Weber
