Golf aims to repeat at Dayton Flyer Invitational

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MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University men's golf team heads to Kettering, Ohio and NCR Country Club for the Dayton Flyer Invitational on Oct. 21-22 to conclude its fall campaign.

Live scoring of the event will be available through Scoreboard by Clippd.

THE EVENT
The Golden Eagles return to the Flyer Invitational for the third time in as many years after a claiming a team championship over Illinois at last fall's event. MU finished as runner-up to the Illini in the fall of 2022 and current assistant coach Josh Robinson led the Golden Eagles past Illinois last season in a tie for second place individually.

MU is one of 12 teams in this year's field, which includes Bowling Green, Butler, Cleveland State, Dayton, DePaul, Kent State, Loyola Chicago, Marshall, Miami (Ohio), Winthrop and Wright State, in addition to the host University of Dayton.

The event begins Monday morning with a 8 a.m. Central time shotgun start and continuous play through 36 holes. Final round action begins at the same time Tuesday morning.

THE COURSE
NCR Country Club's South Course ranks among Golfweek's Top Classic Courses list (built prior to 1960) and has hosted numerous state, regional and national golf championships over the last 70 years. It will play as a par 71 at 7,000 yards for this week's tournament.

The course features wooded, rolling terrain, designed by famed architect Dick Wilson and has hosted the 1969 PGA Championship, won by Raymond Floyd, and the 2022 U.S. Senior Women's Open, among other events.

MARQUETTE LINEUP
1. Patrick Adler
2. Max Lyons
3. Ryan Banas
4. Johan Widal
5. Vincent Cervantes
Individuals: Mason Schmidtke

The Golden Eagles, who enter the event ranked No. 37 nationally in the first National Collegiate Golf Rankings of the year, are led by a pair of seniors in Patrick Adler and Max Lyons and have gotten contributions from their entire lineup this fall.

Adler won his second consecutive event this past week in the RedHawk Intercollegiate at the Pittsburgh Field Club with a 10-under 203 to earn his second BIG EAST Male Golfer of the Week honor of the season. He's one of the hottest players in the sport, having fired all six rounds in the 60s at both the RedHawk and the Windon Memorial Classic, which he won on Sept. 29-30 at Conway Farms.

Lyons tied for third last week at the RedHawk with a 7-under 206, just three strokes behind Adler. He carded an opening round 67 and closed with a 70 and 69 for the highest individual finish of his college career.

Sophomore Ryan Banas is also coming off the best performance of his young career with a 15th-place finish at PFC. He posted 69s in the first two rounds and was knotted with Adler heading into the final round of play. His 1-under 212 is seven strokes better than his previous career-best recorded in MU's previous event at Conway Farms.

Widal and Cervantes, both newcomers to MU this season, round out the lineup. Widal, a transfer from Division II Tiffin University and a native of Sweden, helped the Golden Eagles to a team victory last week with counting scores of 70 and 72 in the final two rounds to help MU hold off Georgia Southern by one stroke.

In addition to MU's top-37 national ranking, the Golden Eagles are receiving votes in the GCAA Bushnell/Golfweek Top-25 Coaches' Poll.

Previous Dayton Flyer Invitational Results (team finish):

Patrick Adler
2023: T36 (5th) +5 (70-78-70—218)
2022: T48 (Ind.) +19 (81-72-79—232)

Ryan Banas
2023: T54 (Ind.) +11 (77-73-74—224)

Max Lyons
2023: T23 (4th) +2 (73-72-70—215)
2022: T32 (4th) +16 (75-81-73—229)

Mason Schmidtke
2023: T26 (Ind.) +3 (65-73-78—216)

UP NEXT: The Flyer Invitational is Marquette's final event on its fall schedule. The Golden Eagles return to action during the spring semester on Feb. 3-4, 2025 in BIG EAST Conference Match Play at Bear Lake Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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