This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Windon Memorial Classic

» Michigan heads back to the Windy City for a second straight weekend as the Wolverines will play in Northwestern's Windon Memorial Classic at Knollwood Club.
» U-M will make its 11th appearance in Northwestern's home event, in which the Wolverines have seven top-five finishes including placing among the top three in their last four.
» In U-M's last appearance in 2016, Kyle Mueller won the individual title and the Wolverines finished third.
» The last time the Windon Memorial was played at Knollwood was in 2013, when Chris O'Neill captured medalist honors and U-M was third.

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Sun-Mon., Sept. 23-24 -- at Windon Memorial Classic (Lake Forest, Ill.)
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Next on the Tee: Windon Memorial Classic

No rest for the Wolverines. After opening the season in the Chicago area, the University of Michigan men's golf team will head back to the Windy City and Lake Forest, Illinois, for Northwestern's Windon Memorial Classic, Sunday and Monday (Sept. 23-24) at Knollwood Club. The 16-team field will play 54 holes over the two-day event. The field will open with 36 holes on Monday and a final 18 on Tuesday. The course will be set up as a par 72 at 7,202 yards.

The Windon Memorial Classic Field

There will be 16 teams in the field at the Windon Memorial Classic, including Army, Eastern Michigan, Indiana, Iowa State, Marquette, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, South Florida, Southern Illinois, UC Davis, UCLA and UNC Greensboro.

The Windon Memorial Classic Lineup

Michigan will bring a five-member starting squad and one individual for the Windon Memorial Classic. Sophomores Henry Spring and Charlie Pilon head up the starters with senior Nick Carlson, junior Brent Ito and freshman Patrick Sullivan filling out the rest of the lineup. Junior Taisei Negishi will play as an individual.

The Windon Memorial Classic Schedule

Friday, Sept. 21 -- Travel Day
Saturday, Sept. 22 -- Practice Round (18), 12:40 p.m. CDT (off No. 10)
Sunday, Sept. 23 -- First Round (18), 8:45 a.m. CDT (shotgun start, playing in foursomes)
Sunday, Sept. 23 -- Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Monday, Sept. 24 -- Final Round (18), 8 a.m. CDT (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)

The Windon Memorial Classic First Day

Michigan will be paired with Iowa State, Marquette and Indiana for the first 36 holes and start off holes Nos. 5-8 in the shotgun format. U-M's individual, Taisei Negishi, will start on No. 18, playing with individuals from UCLA and UC Davis.

U-M History at the Windon Memorial Classic

Michigan will play in its 11th Windon Memorial Classic. The Wolverines have claimed medalist honors in four of their last seven tournaments hosted by Northwestern. In fact in 2010, U-M swept both the team and individual titles. U-M has seven top-five finishes in 10 events.
• 2007: Lake Shore, t-5th (284-288-294/866) | Lion Kim, t-22nd (70-74-72/216) [ Recap ]
• 2008: North Shore, 7th (294-291-292/877) | Nick Pumford, t-25th (75-70-73/218) [ Recap ]
• 2009: Skokie, 5th (293-292-303/888) | Matt Thompson, t-20th (72-75-75/222) [ Recap ]
• 2010: North Shore, 1st (285-287-282/854) | Lion Kim, 1st (69-71-67/207, -6) [ Recap ]
• 2011: Evanston, 8th (286-283-297/866) | Matt Thompson, 1st (69-71-65/205, -5) [ Recap ]
• 2012: Skokie, 9th (305-307-304/916) | Chris O'Neill, t-5th (72-72-74/218) [ Recap ]
• 2013: Knollwood, 3rd (292-290-290/872) | Chris O'Neill, 1st (71-68-69/208, -8) [ Recap ]
• 2014: Evanston, t-3rd (281-284-284/849) | Chris O'Neill, t-14th (67-74-71/212) [ Recap ]
• 2015: Lake Shore, 2nd (281-279-284/845) | Kyle Mueller (70-67-73), Nick Carlson (71-70-69), t-3rd (210) [ Recap ]
• 2016: North Shore C.C., 3rd (288-294-288/870) | Kyle Mueller, 1st (71-71-67/209, -7) [ Recap ]
• 2018: Knollwood, TBD

Wolverine Bites

• Nick Carlson is expected to start his 36th career event at the Windon Memorial Classic. In his last Northwestern event in 2016 at North Shore Country Club he tied for 12th (74-74-70/218), and as a freshman he tied for third (71-70-69/210, -3) in the 2015 event played at Lake Shore Country Club.

• Henry Spring began his sophomore season with a career-best third-place individual finish at the Northern Intercollegiate. His 215 (-1) tally was just a shot off his career low of 214 posted in the season-ending Big Ten Championships.

• Charlie Pilon may have opened with an 80 in his first round of the season, but as he said he had to get the "wiggles" out and remember what tournament play was like. He followed with tallies of 71 (-1) and 69 (-3) to post a top-20 finish at the Northern Intercollegiate, tying for 16th at 220.

• Patrick Sullivan made his collegiate debut at the Northern Intercollegiate and tied for 65th with a 232 total. After opening with an 85 at Rich Harvest Farms, he rallied with rounds of 75 and an even-par 72. Fellow freshman Ben Dunne also made his collegiate debut and first career start at the Northern and was 86th.

• Taisei Negishi will make his season debut playing as an individual at this week's Windon Memorial Classic. It will mark the 10th event of his career.

Inside the Maize and Blue

• Michigan made its fifth straight NCAA regional appearance in 2017-18, as Kyle Mueller won the Columbus Regional and made his second career NCAA Finals appearance. During the five-year stretch, U-M has three team appearances (2017 Washington, 2016 Vanderbilt and 2015 Washington) and two individual appearances (2018 Mueller and 2014 Chris O'Neill).

• U-M has 41 NCAA postseason appearances with 13 regional stops since the format changed to regional play in 1989. The Wolverines have participated as a team in six Central Regionals (1995, 1997, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2011), two Washington Regionals (2015, 2017), the Southwest Regional (2009) and the Franklin Regional (2016). The Wolverines add three regional invitations in 2012 (Matt Thompson), 2014 (Chris O'Neill) and 2018 (Kyle Mueller). U-M has made 23 NCAA team final appearances, winning back-to-back national titles in 1934 and 1935. The Wolverines also have had 11 individuals advance to the NCAA Finals, with the last by Mueller in 2018.

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