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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Eleven full lineups for a total of 55 players are entered and primed to compete in the 2021 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Golf Championship that tees off Monday morning from the University Club of Kentucky.
The women’s 54-hole event wrapped up on Saturday and on Sunday, some will see the Big Blue Course for the first time in their practice round. Others, will have a different level of comfort and familiarity with the Par 72, 6,831-yard layout from the 2019 championship event.
Like the women, following 2020’s suspended season, the men’s field is chomping at the bit to go out and compete as most teams have completed what amounts to a full body of work in the current academic year.
Teams will start in the morning at 8 a.m. ET off the No. 1 and No. 10 tees. Spectators are permitted at the event and encouraged to assist with live scoring on Golfstat as the players focus on their rounds. Per conference policy, masking is required at all times in the clubhouse area.
Less than six strokes separate three of the top teams in the most recent Midwest Region rankings, with Findlay, Hillsdale and defending conference champion Trevecca Nazarene, all slotted by the regional advisory committee.
The Oilers are averaging 289.5 strokes per 18 coming in, including the lowest round of the 2020-21 season with a 273 (-15) at the Kyle Ryman Memorial Invitational in the fall. TNU is averaging 292.5 strokes per four scores counted and Hillsdale is right behind at 294.0.
The top two scoring leaders going into the postseason are Trevecca’s Blain Turner and Ryan Rozic, Turner (71.16) has had 11 rounds of even par or better including a pair of 66’s (-6) this spring. He has a pair of individual wins and a total of six top-10 finishes in eight events.
Turner has the been the back-to-back medalist in the past two conference championship events and shines on this stage. He won in 2019 on the same Big Blue Course as he engaged in a playoff with then-teammate Larken Whittemore. In 2018, he tamed Four Bridges Country Club as a freshman to steal the show with a 220.
Findlay will have Justin Atkinson and recent Ken Partridge Invitational medalist Tanner Grzegorczyk on the links while consistent all-conference performer Luke Kelly is the Oilers’ No. 1 in the lineup.
Rozic has four top 10’s and a medalist win as well this year, to complete the 1-2 punch for the Trojans, who have won six of the past seven conference team titles.
Ohio Dominican’s Robert Holden and Blake Saffell are another team pairing to keep an eye on as the leaderboard develops. Holden is currently sixth in the conference in scoring average and Saffell has posted the lowest round of the season with a 65 (-7) back in the fall.
Both Tiffin and Hillsdale will each feature at least three of the league’s top 20 scoring leaders. For the Dragons, it is the trio of Nico Kyprian, Noah Barth and Cameron McCloskey, and for the Chargers, George Roberts, Will Verduzco, Josh Davenport and Ryan Zetwick, figure to have the program in contention from the get go.
The top 8 individuals (including ties) will receive all-conference team status. The medalist will also be honored along with the inaugural Elite 23 Award winner at the conclusion of the two-day event.