Indiana Opens Season at Northern Intercollegiate

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the fifth straight season, the Indiana University Men's Golf team will open it's season at the Northern Intercollegiate at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. The event is hosted by Northern Illinois University and will be played Sept. 12-13, with 36 holes on Saturday followed by 18 holes on Sunday.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Rich Harvest Farms • Sugar Grove, Ill.
Par 72 • 7,151 yards
Live Scoring
Tournament Headquarters

Participating Teams
Ball State
Houston
Illinois
Indiana
Louisville
Marquette
New Mexico State
Northern Illinois
Purdue
Toledo
UCF
UCLA
Virginia
Winthrop

INDIANA LINEUP
The Hoosiers will send five guys to compete towards the team score and also have one individual competing. The lineup for the weekend looks like this:

Name (year, 2014-15 average)
1) Jake Brown (R-Fr., First Collegiate Event)
2) Max Kollin (Sr., 76.03)
3) Keegan Vea (Jr., 74.76)
4) Andrew Havill (Jr., 78.06)
5) Brendon Doyle (So., 76.46)
Individual) Trevor Ranton (Fr., First Collegiate Event)

AT THE NORTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE
This season marks the fifth time that Indiana has competed at the Northern Intercollegiate to open the season. Here's a look at how they have finished the previous four years:

2011: T3rd, 888 (293-300-295)
2012: 1^st , 888 (308-291-289)
2013: 8^th, 899 (306-297-296)
2014: 11^th, 927 (307-317-303)

TOP RETURNERS
Keegan Vea, a junior from Evansville, Indiana, is the top returning player from last year's team, as he posted a scoring average of 74.76 to lead the team. In his first action of the 2014-15 season at the Rocket Individual Classic, he posted a second place finish with a score of 227. He used that to propel himself into the lineup on a regular basis and would go on to post a pair of Top 30 finishes.

Senior Max Kollin completed 27 rounds of stroke play as a junior, which ranked second on the team. He enters his final season at IU with 70 rounds played and a scoring average of 75.50. He posted a pair of top 25 finishes at the end of the 2014-15 season with a tie for 11^th at the Hoosier Invitational and a tie for 12^th at the Boilermaker Intercollegiate.

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 14^th 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 29^th 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 10^th place finish at the Northern Amateur with scores of 72-69-75.

Indiana Opens Season at Northern Intercollegiate

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Players Mentioned

Jake Brown

Brendon Doyle

Andrew Havill

Max Kollin

Trevor Ranton

Jack Sparrow

Keegan Vea

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