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Island Resort Intercollegiate
This Week in Michigan Men's Golf: Island Resort Intercollegiate
9/3/2021 11:15:00 AM | Men's Golf
» Michigan opens its 2021-22 season at the Island Resort Intercollegiate in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
» U-M is playing its first fall event since October 2019 after the coronavirus pandemic canceled the fall of 2020.
» Senior Patrick Sullivan will play in the No. 1 spot for the Wolverines and will start his 18th career event.
» All three freshmen -- Hunter Thomson (starter), Yuqi Liu (individual) and Bavake Sihota (individual) are expected to make their collegiate debuts.
THIS WEEK
Sun-Mon., Sept. 5-6 -- at Island Resort Intercollegiate (Bark River, Michigan)
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Next on the Tee: Island Resort Intercollegiate
After having the 2020 fall season canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the University of Michigan men's golf team returns and hits the road for the Island Resort Intercollegiate, Sunday and Monday, Sept. 5-6. The two-day, 54-hole event will be held at the Sage Run Golf Course in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Scoring will be five players, count the four lowest scores, with a 10-team field. Selected teams will be allowed individuals, including U-M -- who will have three. The course is scheduled to be set up as a par 72 at 7,375 yards (black tees).
The Island Resort Intercollegiate Field
There will be 10 teams competing at the Island Resort Intercollegiate, including: Bowling Green State, Central Florida, Detroit, Kentucky, Michigan State, Michigan, Middle Tennessee State, Northern Michigan, South Dakota State and Wisconsin-Green Bay.
The Island Resort Intercollegiate Schedule
Friday, Sept. 3 -- Travel Day
Saturday, Sept. 4 -- Practice Round, 10 a.m. (tee times off No. 1)
Sunday, Sept. 5 -- First Round (18), 7:40 a.m. (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)
Sunday, Sept. 5 -- Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Monday, Sept. 6 -- Third Round (18), 7:40 a.m. (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)
The Island Resort Intercollegiate Lineup
Michigan will travel a five-member starting group and three individuals to the Island Resort Intercollegiate. The starting five will include senior Patrick Sullivan, freshman Hunter Thomson, sophomore Will Anderson, junior Pier Francesco De Col and sophomore Jude Kim. The Wolverine individuals will be graduate student Brendan O'Reilly, and freshmen Yuqi Liu and Bavake Sihota
Wolverine Bites
• Michigan will play four fall events starting with the Island Resort Intercollegiate (Sept 5-6). Closing September, the Wolverines head to New Haven, Conn., for Yale's Macdonald Cup (Sept. 25-26) at the Course at Yale. The event is an opportunity for the Wolverines to preview on the NCAA's six regional sites in the spring. Starting October, the Wolverines head to Sugar Grove, Illinois, to play in Northern Illinois' Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate (Oct. 2-4) at the challenging Rich Harvest Farm course. The fall season will close with a trip to Paradise Island in the Bahamas for the Bahamas Invitational (Oct. 29-31) at the Ocean Club Golf Course in the Atlantis Resort. With three months of training, U-M will begin its spring season in February.
• Charlie Pilon will return for a fifth season with the Maize and Blue after opting to accept the extra year of eligibility following the NCAA's exemption after the coronavirus pandemic. In his prior four seasons, the Australian import played in 33 events, starting 32. He carried a 74.26 career scoring average with a career-best 73.00 mark during his junior season. A two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection, Pilon is enrolled in U-M's prestigious Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
• Following Pilon's path, U-M welcomes Illinois transfer Brendan O'Reilly as a graduate transfer as he also will be taking advantage of the NCAA's extra year of eligibility. While with the Illini, he played in 27 events with 19 starts and had a career average of 73.59, posting a career-best 72.88 as a sophomore. During his career, he helped Illinois to 13 team titles, 10 runner-ups, three Big Ten titles and one NCAA regional title. After graduating with a degree in accounting from Illinois, O'Reilly is pursuing a masters of accounting at U-M's prestigious Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
• In addition to welcoming O'Reilly to the program, U-M signed three freshmen in the fall, who will look to make immediate impacts on the program. U-M coach Zach Barlow went north of the border for all three newcomers as Hunter Thomson (Calgary, Alberta), Bavake Sihota (Caledon, Ontario) and Yuqi Liu (Toronto and Beijing, China) make up the Wolverine freshmen class.
• Will Anderson was one of three Wolverines to start all six events a year ago. In his rookie campaign, he paced the U-M in two events, highlighted with his first career top-10 (t-9th) at Houston's Border Olympics recording a career-best even-par 216 (71-72-73) total. That tally was the lowest by a U-M freshman since Henry Spring posted a 214 (+4) tally at the 2017 Big Ten Championships. Anderson was the only Wolverine to count all 18 rounds, averaging a team-best 75.06 scoring average to become the first rookie to lead the team in scoring in six years (Kyle Mueller, 2015).
• Patrick Sullivan prepares for his final season in Ann Arbor, after a career season as a junior. After posting a career-best 75.33 per round average, he posted the lowest round of the season with a career-low 67 (-5) -- his first career sub-70 round -- shot in the final round of the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate (Feb. 14-16). Using that round, he posted a U-M season low as well as his career-best 215 (-1), topping his prior best by six shots (221; 2018 Fighting Irish Classic). He has started all 17 events his has participated in during his career.
• After finishing as the runner-up in 2019, Patrick Sullivan used a 2-and-1 victory over Eastern Michigan's Tyler Rayman to win the 110th Michigan Amateur Championship at Cascade Hills Country Club this summer. Sullivan becomes the 16th Wolverine to hoist the Staghorn Trophy and is the first U-M golfer to win since Andrew Chapman's title run in 2013. U-M now has 26 overall titles in the state amateur's history.
Patrick Sullivan's Michigan Amateur Run
• No. 5 seed (70-69/139, -1)
• Round of 64: 6&5 win over No. 60 seed Erik Fahlen (Taylor University)
• Round of 32: 1-up win over No. 28 seed Alex Zeoli
• Round of 16: 2&1 win over No. 12 seed Charles Delong (GVSU)
• Quarterfinals: 2-up win over No. 4 seed James Piot (Michigan State & 2021 U.S. Amateur Champion)
• Semifinals: 3&1 win over No. 8 seed Colin Sikkenga (Oakland)
• Final: 2&1 win over No. 14 seed Tyler Rayman (EMU)
Up Next
Sat-Sun., Sept. 25-26 -- at Macdonald Cup (New Haven, Conn.)
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