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Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational
Hoosiers Set To Compete At Olympia Fields
9/17/2015 10:09:00 PM | Men's Golf
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the ninth straight year, the Indiana University Men's Golf team will compete at Olympia Fields Country Club near Chicago in the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. The tournament will get underway with 18 holes on Friday followed by 18 holes each on Saturday and Sunday.
The tournament is annually one of the best in the country and this season is no different, boasting eight out of 15 teams ranked inside the top 25 in the GolfStat rankings.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Olympia Fields Country Club • Olympia Fields, Ill.
Par 70 • 7,353 yards
Live Scoring via GolfStat
PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Alabama (24)
Arizona State (11)
Arkansas (34)
Baylor (16)
Florida State (3)
GRU Augusta (49)
Illinois (1)
Indiana (166)
UNLV (33)
Northwestern (70)
Oklahoma State (19)
Stanford (13)
Texas A&M (46)
Texas (2)
Texas Tech (12)
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:
1) Jake Brown (Freshman)
2) Andrew Havill (Junior)
3) Brendon Doyle (Sophomore)
4) Max Kollin (Senior)
5) Keegan Vea (Junior)
Individual) Christian Fairbanks (Sophomore)
IU AT OLYMPIA FIELDS
This season marks the ninth consecutive year that Indiana has competed at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitaitonal. Here's a look at how they have finished the previous eight years:
2007: 3rd (870; 287-291-292)
2008: 2nd (863; 288-292-283)
2009: T13th (905; 302-299-304)
2010: 13th (878; 286-293-299)
2011: 12th (892; 288-299-305)
2012: T10th (887; 300-291-296)
2013: 11th (883; 299-292-292)
2014: 15th (922; 303-312-307)
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 last week, 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.
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 11th at the Hoosier Invitational and a tie for 12th 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 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 is annually one of the best in the country and this season is no different, boasting eight out of 15 teams ranked inside the top 25 in the GolfStat rankings.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Olympia Fields Country Club • Olympia Fields, Ill.
Par 70 • 7,353 yards
Live Scoring via GolfStat
PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Alabama (24)
Arizona State (11)
Arkansas (34)
Baylor (16)
Florida State (3)
GRU Augusta (49)
Illinois (1)
Indiana (166)
UNLV (33)
Northwestern (70)
Oklahoma State (19)
Stanford (13)
Texas A&M (46)
Texas (2)
Texas Tech (12)
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:
1) Jake Brown (Freshman)
2) Andrew Havill (Junior)
3) Brendon Doyle (Sophomore)
4) Max Kollin (Senior)
5) Keegan Vea (Junior)
Individual) Christian Fairbanks (Sophomore)
IU AT OLYMPIA FIELDS
This season marks the ninth consecutive year that Indiana has competed at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitaitonal. Here's a look at how they have finished the previous eight years:
2007: 3rd (870; 287-291-292)
2008: 2nd (863; 288-292-283)
2009: T13th (905; 302-299-304)
2010: 13th (878; 286-293-299)
2011: 12th (892; 288-299-305)
2012: T10th (887; 300-291-296)
2013: 11th (883; 299-292-292)
2014: 15th (922; 303-312-307)
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 last week, 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.
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 11th at the Hoosier Invitational and a tie for 12th 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 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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