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Northern Intercollegiate
This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Northern Intercollegiate
9/22/2017 11:49:00 AM | Men's Golf
» Michigan heads to Sugar Grove, Illinois, for Northern Illinois' Northern Intercollegiate at Rich Harvest Farms.
» Kyle Mueller will lead U-M with his expected 39th straight start at the Northern Intercollegiate. He has yet to miss an event in his four seasons.
» After opening the season playing as an individual at the Inverness Intercollegiate, Henry Spring will make his first collegiate start.
» Rich Harvest Farms served as the host site for the 2017 men's and women's NCAA Championships.
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THIS WEEK
• Sun-Mon., Sept. 24-25 -- Northern Intercollegiate (Sugar Grove, Ill.)
Live Scoring | Rich Harvest Farms
On the Tee: Northern Intercollegiate
After the season-opening Inverness Intercollegiate had its final round rained out, the University of Michigan men's golf team will return quickly to competition at Northern Illinois' Northern Intercollegiate, Sunday and Monday (Sept. 24-25). The 54-hole event will be held in Sugar Grove, Illinois, at Rich Harvest Farms Golf Course. The 12-team field will play 36 holes on Sunday and a final 18 on Monday. Selected teams including U-M will be allowed an individual. Rich Harvest Farms will be set up for a par 72 and 7,253 yards
The Northern Intercollegiate Field
There will be 12 teams in the field at the Northern Intercollegiate: Eastern Kentucky, Grand Canyon, Illinois State, Iowa State, Louisiana-Monroe, Loyola (Maryland), Marquette, Michigan, Northern Illinois, Purdue, Virginia and Wisconsin.
The Northern Intercollegiate Schedule
Saturday, Sept. 23 -- Practice Round (18), 9:06 a.m. CDT (tee times off No. 1)
Sunday, Sept. 24 -- First Round (18), 8:15 a.m. CDT (shotgun start)
Sunday, Sept. 24 -- Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Monday, Sept. 25 -- Final Round (18), 7:45 a.m. CDT (tee times off No. 1 and 10)
The Northern Intercollegiate Lineup
Michigan will bring a five-member starting squad for the Northern Intercollegiate: senior Kyle Mueller, junior Nick Carlson, senior Ian Kim and freshmen Connor Prassas and Henry Spring. Freshman Charlie Pilon and Sophomore Brent Ito will travel and play as an individual.
WOLVERINE BITES
• U-M opened the season by tying for third in the rain-shortened Inverness Intercollegiate, hosted by Toledo. The Maize and Blue posted team tallies of 285 (+1) and 280 (-4) -- the second-lowest of the round -- and shared the third position with UCLA (282-285). Senior Kyle Mueller had a bogey-free 67 (-4) in the second round en route to a third-place finish at 135 (68-67), seven under par. Junior Nick Carlson recorded a team-best 10 birdies, the second most in the tournament field, and tied for sixth with a 138 total (67-71).
• With his expected start at the Northern Intercollegiate, Mueller will have started 39 straight tournaments -- not missing an event his entire careers. He played in 13 events as a freshman, 11 as a sophomore and 13 as a junior. In addition, Carlson has yet to miss a tournament in two-plus seasons, starting 25 consecutive events.
• All three Wolverine newcomers made their collegiate debuts at the Inverness Intercollegiate. Connor Prassas (78-71/149) and Charlie Pilon (76-75/151) were starters and tied for 62nd and 69th, respectively. Playing as an individual, Henry Spring tied for 54th at 148 (72-76). All three are expected to play in the Northern Intercollegiate.
• After becoming the first, and subsequently second, Wolverine golfer to finish a season with a sub-72 scoring average, Mueller started this season with rounds of 68 (-3) and 67 (-4). Over his last three seasons, Mueller has recorded 32 sub-par rounds in 59 attempts (54.2 percent). As a sophomore he set the U-M record with a 71.72 per round average, only to break that with his 71.36 mark last season.
INSIDE THE MAIZE AND BLUE
• Michigan made its third straight NCAA regional appearance as a team in 2016-17, finishing 10th at the Washington Regional. Kyle Mueller led the Wolverines, tying for eighth individually and missing advancing to his second NCAA Finals by a single shot.
• Mueller earned his third straight All-Big Ten selection and second first-team accolade in 2016-17. He became the second Wolverine in program history to earn three All-Big Ten honors, joining Michael Harris, who was a three-time first teamer (1998-2000). Mueller has second-team honors as a freshman (2015) and back-to-back years of first-team selections (2016 & 2017).
• In addition to his Big Ten honor, Mueller garnered PING All-America honorable mention by the Golf Coaches Association of America, becoming the 10th Wolverine to earn an All-America accolade and the first in six years (2011).
• Mueller and Carlson both competed at the 2017 U.S. Amateur in California. Mueller made his third straight appearance and advanced to match play for the second time, reaching the round of 32. Carlson made his second straight trip after his remarkable run to the Final Four in 2016.
UP NEXT
• Mon-Tue., Oct. 9-10 -- Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate (Vestavia Hills, Ala.)
• Mon-Tue., Oct. 23-24 -- Royal Oaks Intercollegiate (Dallas, Texas)
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