Golf Looks to Repeat at 2024 BIG EAST Championships

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MILWAUKEE - The Marquette University men's golf team travels to Hardeeville, South Carolina on April 27-29 for the 2024 BIG EAST Men's Golf Championship Presented by JEEP at Riverton Point Golf Club.

THE EVENT
Marquette seeks its first repeat conference crown and its sixth BIG EAST team championship after securing the title in 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023. The Golden Eagles won last year's event at Riverton Pointe and Bhoom Sima-Aree claimed medalist honors with a 3-under 213 (73-68-72).

The first round is set to begin at 7 a.m. Central time on Saturday, April 27 and final round action concludes on Monday, April 29. The Golden Eagles are paired with Creighton and UConn in Saturday's opening round and will head off the first tee at 9:25 a.m. CT.

The event's team champion and individual medalist earn the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Regional Championships on May 13-15. The NCAA will announce the tournament field for the 2024 NCAA Men's Golf Championships on Wednesday, May 1 on the GOLF Channel at 1 p.m. CT.

Live video coverage of all three rounds is provided by GameKast Live and live scoring is available on Golfstat. The live video coverage includes 20 cameras stationed on select holes in addition to one mobile camera and interviews following rounds on No. 18. Viewers must register for an account on GKLive.tv using the code BIGEAST100 for free access to the user-controlled experience with on-demand video.

THE COURSE
Riverton Pointe Golf and Country Club is situated in Hardeesville, South Carolina just north of the South Carolina/Georgia border in between Savannah and Hilton Head. The course is a par 72 and plays at 7,158 yards this week. The Nicklaus Design includes large, subtle greens and fairways lined with tall sea pines and splashes of colorful wildflowers in a Lowcountry setting.

THE LINEUP
1. Max Lyons
2. Aidan Lafferty
3. Mason Schmidtke
4. Will Hemauer
5. Josh Robinson
Alternate: Patrick Adler

Junior Max Lyons and graduate students Aidan Lafferty and Josh Robinson lead the Golden Eagles into this week's conference championship as the three active MU golfers with previous BIG EAST tournament experience.

Lyons finished in the teens at each of his previous two BIG EAST meets and set an event single-round record as a freshman with a 8-under 64 in the opening round of the 2022 championship at Callaway Gardens's Mountain Course. He leads the active MU players this season with a 72.17 scoring average and a team-best 16 rounds of par-or-better. The native of Phoenix is a two-time All-BIG EAST performer, the league's 2021-22 freshman of the year, and has paced MU at six of its 10 events this season.

Lafferty has recorded top-two team finishes at six events and Robinson led the MU contingent at the Flyer Invitational in the fall in a tie for second place individually.

Freshman Mason Schmidtke from Sheboygan, Wisconsin jumps all the way up to the No. 3 spot in the lineup. He's made steady progress over the spring, finishing as Marquette's fourth finisher in the first three events of 2024 and third at both the Augusta Haskings Invitational and the Fighting Illini Spring Collegiate last weekend.

Sophomore Will Hemauer has been a recent addition to the Marquette lineup and finished as MU's No. 2 at Illinois.

The Golden Eagles put together a strong fall season capped with a win at the Dayton Flyer Invitational on Oct. 16-17 at NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio. MU topped eight-time defending Big Ten champion Illinois at the event and played a strong spring slate in early 2024. MU has faced some of the nation's toughest competition this spring at the Puerto Rico Classic at Grand Reserve Golf Club, The Johnnie-O at Sea Island, The Hootie Intercollegiate at Bulls Bay and the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational at Forest Hills Golf Club.

Sima-Aree will not compete this weekend due an injury that has sidelined him throughout the spring campaign. He was MU's sixth BIG EAST medalist in program history last spring.

PREVIOUS INDIVIDUAL FINISHES

Aidan Lafferty
2021: T-26th, (+12, 74-82-72--228)

Max Lyons
2023: T-12th (+4, 72-73-75--220)*
2022: T-17th (+2, 64-78-76--218)

Josh Robinson
2023: T-31st (+11, 76-75-76--227)*
2022: T-13th (+1, 72-74-71--217)
2021: T-26th (+12, 74-77-77--228)

PREVIOUS BIG EAST TEAM FINISHES
2023: 1st (+9, 293-279-301--873)*
2022: 2nd (-12, 281-289-282--852)
2021: 2nd (+11, 286-293-296--875)
2020: No Event
2019: 1st (+8, 303-288-271---872)
2018: 2nd (+25, 290-306-291--884)
2017: 1st (+35, 204-209-286--899)
2016: 4th (+34, 299-293-306--898)
2015: 1st (+33, 304-297-296--897)
2014: 2nd (+28, 295-300-297--892)
2013: 7th (+27, 292-305-294--891)
2012: 8th (+34, 299-301-298--898)
2011: T-7th (+52, 304-303-297--904)
2010: T-9th (+43, 306-288-301--895)
2009: 2nd (-12, 292-287-273--852)
2008: 1st (+10, 291-288-295--874)
2007: 4th (+8, 290-294-288--872)
2006: 3rd (-18, 285-278-283--846)

BIG EAST MEDALISTS - MARQUETTE
2023: Bhoom Sima-Aree (-3, 73-68-72--213)*
2021: Hunter Eichhorn (-7, 68-71-70--209)
2018: Hunter Eichhorn (-2, 69-73-72--214)
2017: Matthew Bachmann (E, 73-71-72--216)
2015: Patrick Sanchez (-1, 73-73-69--215)
2008: Ted Gray (-5, 68-68-75--211)

(*at Riverton Pointe)

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