Marquette University
Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills
Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills Tees Off Sunday
9/27/2018 9:24:00 AM | Men's Golf
The Golden Eagles welcome 10 teams to the site of the 117th U.S. Open
Ten top-level collegiate golf programs visit the site of the 117th U.S. Open Championship this weekend, when the 54-hole Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills takes place Sunday (Sept. 30) through Tuesday (Oct. 2).
Marquette plays host to a fall event for the sixth time in as many years and the fifth time at Erin Hills Golf Course as the Golden Eagles welcome Arizona State, Iowa, McNeese State, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ole Miss, Northwestern, UC Davis, Utah and Wisconsin. Arizona State was ranked No. 13 in the GCAA Preseason Poll - the Sun Devils and Northwestern advanced to the NCAA championship round a season ago. In addition, the Badgers and Wildcats have played in all five Marquette Intercollegiates since 2013.
Daily tee times will begin at 9 a.m. CT, off holes No. 1 and No. 10. For Monday and Tuesday's rounds, tee times will be set by team leaderboard position. Visit Golfstat for updated scoring and tee times for each round.
The Par 72 course, which played as the longest in major championship history during the 2017 U.S. Open at 7,741 yards, will extend as far as 7,869 yards for the Marquette Intercollegiate.
This season, the Golden Eagles enter the 11-team tournament having won their last two events - the Northern Intercollegiate (Sept. 15-16) and the Windon Memorial Classic (Sept. 23-24). Marquette tries for the team's first win in its home event - last season, then-junior Austin Kendziorski became the first MU player to claim medalist honors in the tournament, when he shared the top spot after shooting a 3-under-par 213.
If Marquette wins this week, it would match the school's single-season win total of three, set in 2007-08. MU has never won three consecutive 54-hole events.
Marquette has played in NCAA Men's Golf Championship regional action in two of the last four years (2015 and 2017), while junior Matt Murlick and sophomore Hunter Eichhorn represented MU as individuals in NCAA regionals last year. Eichhorn is the defending BIG EAST Men's Golf Champion, and was last year's BIG EAST Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year. Last year, MU held a No. 22 national ranking (GCAA Poll) entering the Marquette Intercollegiate - it was the first national top-25 ranking in the 94-year history of the program.
