Men's Season Statistics
Women's Season Statistics
Men's 1st Round Tee-Times
Women's 1st Round Tee-Times
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s & Women’s Golf Championships will be conducted at the University of Club of Kentucky on Friday and Saturday with 54-hole tournaments on the Big Blue and Wildcat courses.
The men will be playing a par-72, 6,896-yard layout on the Big Blue course and the women will be playing on the Wildcat course with a par-71, 5,936-yard design.
Tee times will be split on Friday morning with the men starting off No. 1 and No. 10 and 8 a.m. ET while the women are set to begin at 8:30 a.m. off split tees.
Live scoring for both tournaments will be available to follow through Golfstat.com. The official tournament pages for the men and women can be viewed at GreatMidwestSports.com
This will be the first year that the conference tournament is being held in Lexington. The previous four tournaments were played at Four Bridges Country Club in the greater Cincinnati area.
Showers in the Lexington area are in the forecast for the next two days and in any event of suspended play, weather updates will be posted on Twitter (@GreatMidwestAC). The championship banquet will also be taking place on Thursday evening with each coach speaking about their season to date.
The annual all-conference team for both the men and women includes the top five finishers and ties along with individual awards that will be voted upon by the league’s coaches. Twelve teams are competing for the men’s championship trophy and 13 will be vying for the women’s hardware.
Findlay is the defending champion for both the men and women and head into this year’s conference tournament as the favorites, dating back to the preseason coaches polls, on paper once again. Under head coach Dominic Guarnieri, the Oilers return most of the same personnel from championship teams a year ago to try and make a repeat run in this year’s tournament.
Trevecca Nazarene boasts three of the top six scoring leaders on the men’s side, paced by league leader Blain Turner and his 71.50 scoring average. The sophomore has six top-10 finishes and with teammates Larken Whittemore (72.75) and Ryan Rozic (72.95), make the Trojans a viable contender.
UF, Hillsdale and TNU, were all slotted in the NCAA Midwest Region rankings at fifth, sixth and eighth, respectively. Findlay is ranked third in the East Region for the women and Tiffin is sixth going into the conference tournament.
The Oilers’ women have all five of the conference’s top scoring leaders paced by senior Makenzie Torres, who was last year’s medalist and conference player of the year.
UF’s Kristina Kniesly, Meredith Wipper, Samantha Hatter and Jill Schmitmeyer, are all ranked in order with scoring averages of 77.38 or better.
The Oilers women have won four different tournaments already and are in possession of the league’s top 10 team scores for the year headlined by a record-tying 287 (-1) fired in the final round of the Great Midwest Fall Invitational.
UF’s team scoring average is also hovering right around 300 for a cumulative single round, a considerable difference comparing last year’s conference single-season team scoring average record of 308.51.