MANHATTAN, Kan. – Coming off over three weeks’ price of preparation, the Kansas State males’s golf workforce will put the ending touches on its fall schedule on the Steelwood Collegiate, Saturday and Sunday, on the par-72, 7,096-yard Steelwood Country Club in Loxley, Alabama.
This is the third-straight 12 months and the fourth time total that the Wildcats will compete within the Steelwood Collegiate. They earned a third-place end final season – which noticed
Nicklaus Mason take house the person title – whereas Okay-State positioned sixth in 2023 and ninth in 2018.
“We are looking forward to getting back out on the road and competing again,” head coach
Grant Robbins stated. “We have had a few weeks off, which has given us a chance to work on all areas of everyone’s game. We had a very competitive qualifier, and the guys have looked pretty sharp as we look to close out the fall against a very strong field. We have a much different lineup heading into this tournament compared to a year ago, however Coach (Cullen) Carstens and I are very familiar with the course having played there multiple times. The greens are pretty severe, so it is going to be imperative that we hit into some tight areas on approaches and be on the correct side of the hole. I am very excited to see how we compete this week.”
Joining Okay-State in Loxley is Iowa State, Kennesaw State, Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Nebraska, Purdue, Rice, Rutgers, host college South Alabama, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and West Virginia.
The Wildcats will make the most of the lineup of seniors
Shea Harmeson and
Alex Lindstrom, sophomore
Fionn Dobbin and freshmen
Ville Virkkala and
Oliver Toyer. This is similar lineup that Okay-State deployed on the final match, the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, when it completed fourth in a aggressive 10-team discipline. Additionally, sophomore
Tyler Strong will compete as a person.
Harmeson, a switch from Saginaw Valley State, leads the workforce with a 72.00 scoring common and two top-10 finishes, together with a tie for second place within the season-opening Wildcat Invitational. He is coming off a tie for seventh place on the Blessings Collegiate Invitational with a 54-hole rating of 3-over par 219.
A product of Halmstad, Sweden, Lindstrom is true behind Harmeson with a 72.42 scoring common thanks partly to a rating of 63 in the course of the first spherical of the Git-R-Done Invitational, an occasion that he tied for first place at 13-under par 200. His 63 tied for the second-lowest spherical at school historical past, whereas his three-round whole ranked fifth.
Virkkala and Toyer are subsequent on the squad with scoring averages of 72.58 and 73.58, respectively, adopted by Dobbin at 74.00. A local of Espoo, Finland, Virkkala has completed within the high 20 in three of his 4 fall occasions, together with an eighth-place end on the Wildcat Invitational at even-par 216. Dobbin and Toyer tied for eighth place within the Git-R-Done Invitational with a 54-hole rating of 2-under par 211.
A product of Olathe, Kansas, Strong has competed in two occasions and holds a 75.17 scoring common along with his finest end being a tie for seventeenth place on the Wildcat Invitational.
A shotgun begin to the primary 36 holes of play begins at 8:30 a.m., on Saturday because the Wildcats will likely be paired with Purdue and Kennesaw State, and tee occasions will likely be used for Sunday’s closing spherical starting at 7:40 a.m. Live outcomes will be adopted on
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