Michigan to Journey to Kentucky for Cullen Brown Collegiate

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Riding a streak of three straight top-four finishes, the University of Michigan males’s golf workforce will journey to Lexington, Ky., for the Cullen Brown Collegiate, hosted by Kentucky, Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 6-7) at Lexington Country Club. The Wolverines will make their first look in Lexington in 22 years, having final competed within the 2003 Johnny Owens Invitational on the University Club. The 15-team area will play a 54-hole format (36-18) on a par-71 course measuring 7,255 yards.

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• The Cullen Brown Collegiate will characteristic 15 groups: Cincinnati, Eastern Kentucky, Kennesaw State, Kentucky, Lipscomb, Memphis, Michigan, Mississippi State, NC State, North Alabama, Penn State, Toledo, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Western Kentucky.

• U-M will journey 5 starters and one particular person to the occasion. The Wolverine lineup will characteristic an all-sophomore beginning 5 of RJ Arone, Dean Muratore, Nilay Naik, Nicolas Simon and Johnny Solis. Freshman Jordan Hwang may also make the journey and compete as a person.

• Michigan has posted eight of its 9 workforce rounds below par this season, producing three straight sub-par 54-hole totals to open the autumn. Through 9 rounds, the Wolverines boast a 277.33 workforce scoring common, highlighted by 5 sub-280 rounds, together with a program file–tying 267 (-21) within the remaining spherical of the Island Resort Intercollegiate.

• Across its first three 54-hole occasions, Michigan is a mixed 72-under par, recording three consecutive sub-par workforce totals — 822 (-42) on the Island Resort Intercollegiate, 839 (-25) on the Canadian Collegiate Invitational and 835 (-5) on the Jim DeLapa Collegiate. The Wolverines are averaging 832.00 per occasion throughout that stretch.

• Michigan’s beginning 5 have mixed for 27 under-par rounds in 45 alternatives, together with 5 rounds at even par. Overall, U-M has produced 32 sub-par rounds and 5 at par by means of three tournaments. Collectively, the Wolverines are averaging 71.18 strokes per spherical this season.

• Michigan has recorded 12 sub-par finishes throughout its final 20 54-hole occasions. The Wolverines are averaging practically two strokes below par with a 213.55 workforce scoring common. Muratore holds this system file along with his 196 (-14) on the Jim DeLapa Collegiate — the bottom 54-hole complete in class historical past and simply the second sub-200 complete ever by a Wolverine.

• Muratore was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week following his victory on the Jim DeLapa Collegiate. He turned solely the second Wolverine in program historical past to interrupt the 200-stroke mark, incomes his first profession medalist honor with a program-record 196 (-14, 66-64-66). His complete surpassed the earlier file of 198 (69-65-65) set by Kyle Mueller on the 2015 Alister MacKenzie Invitational.

• Muratore has opened the season with eight of 9 rounds below par, posting a powerful 68.22 scoring common. He fired a career-low 64 (-6) within the second spherical of the Jim DeLapa Collegiate, serving to him seize his first profession particular person title. He has led the Wolverines in two of three occasions this fall.

• Arone has additionally opened the season robust with eight of 9 rounds below par and a 69.00 scoring common. He has posted three straight top-10 finishes, highlighted by a career-best tie for fifth on the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (208, -8) and a career-low 205 (-11) on the Island Resort Intercollegiate.