Spring Season Begins With Big Ten Match Play Championship

PALM COAST, Florida – For the Indiana men's golf team, the spring championship season gets underway on Friday at the Big Ten Match Play Championship in Florida, with 12 of the 14 conference teams competing. The tournament will take place Friday and Saturday at the Hammock Beach Resort Conservatory Course.

The Hoosiers enter the tournament as the No. 9 seed and they will take on Iowa – the No. 8 seed – in the opening round. The winner will move on to play No. 1 seed Michigan State on Friday afternoon. The loser will fall into the consolation part of the bracket.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Hammock Beach Resort Conservatory Course • Palm Coast, Florida
Par 72 • 7,183 yards
Live Scoring

TEAMS COMPETING (GolfStat ranking)
Michigan State (29)
Michigan (35)
Northwestern (36)
Purdue (40)
Penn State (57)
Ohio State (64)
Minnesota (72)
Iowa (80)
Indiana (95)
Nebraska (129)
Rutgers (191)

INDIANA LINEUP
The Hoosiers will send six guys to compete this weekend:

Golfer	16-17 Rounds	Scoring Avg.	Career Match Play
1) Andrew Havill	14	73.07	3-2
2) Brendon Doyle	14	74.57	4-3
3) Brock Ochsenreiter	14	75.29	0-0
4) Jake Brown	14	75.36	2-2
5) Christian Fairbanks	2	80.50	0-0
6) Keegan Vea	11	77.45	5-5

SCORING FOR BIG TEN MATCH PLAY
• Individual matches can end in Win, Loss or Tie. An individual match win is worth one point, and a halved match is worth ½ point.
• Team matches will end in Win or Loss.
• For team matches ending in a 3-3 (except the Championship Match), the winning team will be determined by the following tiebreaking procedure:
1. Most holes won by a team (For example, winning a match 7&6 will give a team 7 holes, 4&2 will give a team 4 holes, etc.)
2. Outcome of anchor first match, second match, third match, etc. These match numbers will respond to order coaches choose. It will not be number one player on team, but whoever is in first match working back to sixth match.
3. Highest seeded team in Golfstat ranking assigned prior to event.
• In event of a tie during the Championship Match, Co-Champions will be declared.

INDIANA HISTORY AT BIG TEN MATCH PLAY
Here's a look at how the Hoosiers have played over the course of this event:

2015-16
Penn State, W (3.5-2.5)
Minnesota, L (2-4)
Rutgers, W (4-2)
Purdue, L, (1-5)

2014-15
Northwestern L,1-3
Penn State L,1-4
Michigan State L, 1-4
Nebraska W, 2-2

2013-14
Wisconsin W, 3-0
Northwestern L, 0-1
Ohio State W, 3-2
Minnesota T, 1-2 (Minnesota won tiebreaker)

2011-12
Ohio State L, 2-3
Iowa T, 3-4 (Iowa won tiebreaker)

2010-2011
Wisconsin W, 6-0
Iowa W, 4-2
Ohio State T, 4-3 (IU won tiebreaker)
Northwestern L, 2-4

2009-2010
Minnesota L, 2-3
Illinois, W, 4-2
Ohio State L, 1-5

2008-2009
Purdue W, 4-2
Michigan State W, 4-1
Michigan W, 3-2
*Big Ten Match Play Champions*

QUAIL VALLEY INTERCOLLEGIATE RECAP
The final tournament of the fall season saw the Hoosiers travel to Vero Beach, Florida for the Quail Valley Intercollegiate and they came away with a 14th place team finish out of 15 teams. Senior Andrew Havill led the way with an Even par score of 216 for the tournament to tie for 28th and has finished inside the top 30 of each event so far this season. Redshirt sophomore Jake Brown was just one shot behind him at 1-over par and a tie for 35th, capped off by a final round 69.

NORTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE RECAP
The Hoosiers earned a second place team finish at the Northern Intercollegiate at Beverly CC in Chicago on Oct. 10. Brendon Doyle led a trio of Hoosiers inside the top 16 individually for the tournament, as he finished tied for eighth with a score of 7-over par (220) to tie for his best career finish. Andrew Havill was behind him at 11-over par and Ochsenreiter was 13-over par.

WINDON MEMORIAL RECAP
At the Windon Memorial, Indiana posted a 11th place finish with a score of 896 (295-298-303; +32) while Keegan Vea was the top IU individual with a score of 221 (70-76-75; +5) and a tie for 21st. For Vea, it marked his eighth career top 25 finish and the fifth overall Top 25 by a Hoosier this season. Vea's first round 70 (-2) was also the best round in relation to par so far this season. Andrew Havill continued his steady start to his senior season with this third straight Top 30 finish after a score of 224 put him in a tie for 29th.

RECAP FROM OLYMPIA FIELDS
In what is annually one of the best – if not the best – fields in collegiate golf, the Hoosiers entered the final round in 10th place out of 14 teams at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. But when the dust settled on the final round, Indiana slipped to 14th place but were just four shots out of 10^th place and showed that they can compete with some of the best teams in the country.

Senior Andrew Havill continued to show the way for IU early in the season, as he posted scores of 73-70-73 to earn his second Top 20 finish of the season (T19). Brendon Doyle was just one shot behind him at 217 and in 21^st place.

SEASON OPENER AT WOLF RUN
The Hoosiers hosted 14 teams at Wolf Run Golf Club to open the 2016-17 season and finished sixth with a score of 590 after the tournament had to be shortened to 36 holes due to rain. Andrew Havill led Indiana with a T6 finish and a score of 143 (+1). Doyle joined Havill in the top 20 with a score of 145 that was good for a tie 14th.

Freshman Brock Ochsenreiter also made his college debut at Wolf Run, posting scores of 76 and 77 to tie for 45th.

Spring Season Begins With Big Ten Match Play Championship

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Players Mentioned

Jake Brown

Brendon Doyle

Christian Fairbanks

Andrew Havill

Brock Ochsenreiter

Keegan Vea

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