SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The 2021 Summit League Men's Golf Championship presented by U.S. Air Force Special Warfare gets underway Saturday, May 1 at the Sand Creek Station Golf Club in Newton, Kan. The 54-hole event will span three rounds over the course of the three days and conclude on Monday, May 3.
Need to know
Date: Saturday-Monday, May 1-3
Start times: 8 a.m. CT daily
Location: Sand Creek Station Golf Club
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,086
Host: The Summit League
Live Results: Golfstat.com
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Championship Notes
• The 2021 Men's Golf Championship will be the fifth consecutive played at the Sand Creek Station Golf Club in Newton, Kan. The championship will feature a Par-72, 7,086-yard course layout. Newton is located around 20 miles north of Wichita.
• The Denver men under the direction of first-year head coach Trake Carpenter will look to defend their 2019 crown that was the last trophy awarded after the 2020 event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• DU junior Cal McCoy won a four-man playoff to capture Championship MVP honors as a freshman in 2019. Those four finished with 54-hole totals of 219 (+3) as the teams were forced to play 36 holes on Monday to avoid forecasted storms on Tuesday when the final round was originally scheduled to be played.
• Pioneer teammate Esteban Missura joined McCoy in the playoff that also featured Oral Roberts' Cody Burrows and North Dakota State's Andrew Israelson. All four players had a look at birdie on the first-extra hole, but McCoy was the only one to get his to drop as he became the first Pioneer to win the league's individual title.
• McCoy claimed the final the #SummitGF weekly honor after turning in his best performance of the spring as he fired a 210 (-6) to tie for 12th at the BYU Ping Cougar Classic. Teammate Carson Griggs led all league golfers with three weekly honorns during the regular season as the Pios arrive in Kansas with the league's top-scoring average at 291.4.
• DU senior Jackson Solem boasts the top scoring average among league golfers at 71.9. Pioneer teamamtes Jun Ho Won (3rd; 72.5) and John Sand (4th; 72.7) were also among the top five league players in scoring average.
• Kansas City grows the Championship field to nine teams this year as the Roos return to the league after a seven-year stint in the Western Athletic Conference. Head coach J.W. VanDenBorn led his squad to team titles at the WAC Championship in both 2018 and 2019. He was the Summit League Coach of the Year in 2011 and 2013 when he led the Roos to team titles.
• The Roos trailed Denver by half a stroke in scoring average during the regular season at 291.9. Seniors Paul Foulquie (2nd; 72.3) and McCain Schellhardt (5th; 72.9) led the charge with top-five scoring averages among league golfers.
• North Dakota State will play in the final group with Denver and Kansas City after winning their final two tournaments of the regular season.
• Led by two underclassmen, the Bison turned in two of the top three scoring rounds of the season en route to winning the Golfweek Spring Invitational in early April. The Bison fired a 277 (-11) in the second round after opening the event with a 279 (-9).
• Sophomore Nate Deziel and freshman Jack Johnson posted identical stroke averages of 73.53 through five events, logging 1,103 strokes in 15 rounds of play. Deziel tied for the 5th at the Golfweek event, while Johnson tied for 10th.
• The Bison then won the Stampede at the Creek, which was an event that featured four other Summit League foes. NDSU won by six strokes as Deziel posted his third top-10 finish of the season. South Dakota State was the runner-up as Jack Tanner and James Temple both tied for fourth to pace the Jackrabbits with 54-hole totals of 222 (+6).
• Oral Roberts arrives in Kansas with the third-best team stroke average of 294.0 and the Golden Eagles were the only squad that had four players among the top 10 in individual stroke average. The trio of Dustin Hasley (73.2; 1098), Rocco Repetto-Taylor (73.5; 1102) and Mike Biata (73.5; 1103) were all within five strokes of each other over the course of five events and 15 rounds.
• Hasley, McCoy and Missura are the three returners from the 2019 all-tournament team. Hasley missed the four-man playoff by just one stroke.
• South Dakota is the sixth team in the field that brings a sub-300 team scoring average to Sand Creek Station. The Coyotes are led by senior Matt Tolan, who was the top Summit League finisher at the Stampede at the Creek as he finished runner-up and earned his second #SummitGF weekly honors of the season.
• The Coyotes and the Jackrabbits tied for second at the 2019 Men's Championship with team totals of 889, while Oral Roberts and North Dakota State shared fourth and were just a stroke off that pace with 890 totals.
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