Wolverines Set for Season Opener at Island Resort Intercollegiate

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For the fifth straight season opener, the University of Michigan males’s golf staff heads to the Upper Peninsula and Bark River, Mich., to play in South Dakota State’s Island Resort Intercollegiate, Sunday and Monday (Aug. 31-Sept. 1) on the Sage Run Golf Club. The 12-team area will play 54 holes (36-18) at Sage Run Golf Club.

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• The Island Resort area can be made up of 12 groups, together with Ball State, Central Florida, Illinois State, Miami (Ohio), Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Purdue, Saint Mary’s, South Dakota State, UTEP and West Virginia.

• U-M will journey 5 starters and three people to the Island Resort. Freshman Jordan Hwang and sophomores Nilay Naik, Dean Muratore, Nicolas Simon and RJ Arone make up the U-M beginning 5. Freshmen Jack Harrington, Tristan Wieland and sophomore Johnny Solis will journey and play as people.

• Michigan makes its fifth journey to the Island Resort Intercollegiate in Bark River, Mich. After back-to-back third-place staff finishes in 2021 (880) and 2022 (860), Hunter Thomson’s runner-up end paced a record-breaking efficiency for the Maize and Blue in 2023 because the Wolverines received the staff title with an 834 (-30). Last season, U-M had three Wolverines among the many prime 20 and closed fifth.

• With the commencement of All-American Thomson, Yuqi Liu and Ben Hoagland, Michigan has a 10-golfer roster made up solely of underclassmen. The younger Wolverines will look to depend on the experiences gained final season by Muratore and Arone. Muratore began 11 of 12 occasions in his rookie marketing campaign, whereas averaging 73.06 per spherical with 4 top-15 particular person finishes. Arone began all 12 of his occasions and posted a 73.40 common, with three top-15 finishes and ending among the many prime three Wolverines in seven occasions.

• U-M welcomes 4 newcomers, together with the signing of 2025 NCAA Division III All-American Naik, who performed his freshman season at Pomona Pitzer in Claremont, Calif. During the November signing interval, U-M signed Hwang, Harrington and Wieland, who’re all anticipated to battle for beginning spots.

• Michigan has a balanced common season with 5 fall and 5 spring occasions. This fall, the Wolverines make return journeys to the Island Resort Intercollegiate and Canadian Collegiate (Sept. 14-16), earlier than coach Zach Barlow‘s squad highlights the highest half of the schedule enjoying within the inaugural Jim DeLapa Collegiate (Sept. 28-29) at Benton Harbor’s famed Point O’ Woods Golf and Country Club. The Maize and Blue shut with journeys to Kentucky’s Cullan Brown Collegiate (Oct. 6-7) and Miami (Ohio)’s Morian Intercollegiate (Oct. 13-14).