This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Crooked Stick Invitational

» Michigan heads to Carmel, Indiana, to play in the Crooked Stick Invitational, co-hosted by Indiana and Purdue.
» Senior Brent Ito has led the Wolverines in each of the three fall events and is averaging 71.33 per round.
» U-M will use the same lineup as last week's Fighting Irish Classic.
» There will be six Big Ten teams in the field at Crooked Stick

THIS WEEK
Mon-Tue., Oct. 14-15 -- Crooked Stick Invitational (Carmel, Ind.)
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Next on the Tee: Crooked Stick Invitational

The University of Michigan men's golf team will head back out for tournament play as the Wolverines travel to Carmel, Indiana, for the Crooked State Invitational on Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 14-15). The two-day, 54-hole event is co-hosted by Indiana and Purdue and will feature a 14-team field playing at the Crooked Stick Golf Club. The course will be set up for a par 72 and 7,290 yards.

The Crooked Stick Invitational Field

There will be 14 teams in the field at the Crooked Stick Invitational, including Ball State, Cincinnati, College of Charleston, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Marquette, Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, UNC Greensboro and Vanderbilt.

The Crooked Stick Invitational Lineup

Michigan will bring a five-member starting squad for the Crooked Stick Invitational.
• Senior Brent Ito (19th career start)
• Junior Charlie Pilon (23rd career start)
• Junior Henry Spring (19th career start)
• Sophomore Ben Dunne (12th career start)
• Freshman Pier Francesco De Col (Second career start)

The Fighting Irish Classic Schedule

Saturday, Oct. 12 -- Travel Day
Sunday, Oct. 13 -- Practice Round (18), 11:30 a.m. (tee times)
Monday, Oct. 14 -- First Round (18), 9 a.m. (shotgun); Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Tuesday, Oct. 15 -- Final Round (18), 9 a.m. (tee times off No. 1 and 10)

Wolverine Bites

• Senior Brent Ito has led the U-M charge into the fall season leading the Wolverines in all three fall events with top-25 finishes. He began with his first career top-10 finish, tying for ninth at the Windon Memorial Classic (Sept. 16-17) with a 212 (-1) tally. He followed with a tie for 11th at the Inverness Intercollegiate (Sept. 23-24) with a 216 (+3) total. Last week, he posted a 214 (+1) to tie for 23rd at the Fighting Irish Classic (Oct. 7-8). Ito's 71.33 scoring average is nearly two strokes better than the next Wolverine.

• This season Ito has posted six of his nine total fall rounds at par or under. He has a team-best four sub-par rounds including a season-low 69 (-2) in the first round of the Windon Memorial. His 212 (-1) tally at the Windon marked his second career sub-par 54-hole total. He owns the top three 54-hole totals by a Wolverine this season -- averaging 214.00 per event.

• In three overall events, Brent Ito is three-over par. He has played 162 holes posting 131 holes of par or better with 33 birdies (98 pars) to date. Ito has recorded a minimum of three birdies in each of his nine rounds this season and has recorded 31 over-par holes with just four double bogeys.

• Pier Francesco De Col made his collegiate debut at the Fighting Irish Classic (Oct. 7-8) and posted a 228 tally. After an opening 77 he recorded a career-low even-par 71 in the second round. He is scheduled to make his second straight start at Crooked Stick.

• Starting all three events this fall, Ben Dunne tied his career-low 72 (+1) in the first round of the Inverness Intercollegiate (Sept. 23-24), which propelled him to a career-best 222 54-hole tournament total. His 75.33 scoring average is just under a stroke and a half better than his freshman year (77.05).

• For the third straight season Henry Spring has twice tied his career-low of 69. First he closed his Inverness Intercollegiate with five birdies to post a 69 (-2). In the next event, he repeated the score but with seven birdies for a finishing 69 (-2) at the Fighting Irish Classic (Oct. 7-8). Averaging 76.00 (first round) and 77.33 (second round) to begin an event Spring is ending with a 71.00 final-round average. For the season he has averaged 74.78 per round.

• This season, Michigan welcomes new head coach Zach Barlow, who spent the last five seasons at Illinois. Over that span, Barlow helped Mike Small guide Illinois to five consecutive Big Ten titles, win three NCAA regional championships and advance to five consecutive NCAA finals, and made it to the match play semifinal three times. [ Release ]

• In addition to the hiring of head coach Zach Barlow, the Wolverines welcome his college teammate Matt Hoffman as his assistant coach. After a six year professional career, Hoffman spent the last two years as an assistant coach with one of Canada's most prestigious golf programs at Humber College (2017-19) in Toronto. In his two seasons, the Hawks won back-to-back Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) championships and were second in the 2019 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) championships after a third-place finish in 2018. [ Release ]