WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men's golf team sets its sights on its second title of the season when it hosts the Purdue Fall Invitational on the Kampen-Cosler Course, beginning Sunday and running through Monday.
The Boilermakers have already won the Island Resort Intercollegiate earlier this month and are looking for their second title of the young season. Purdue has won its previous two home tournaments during the regular season, aiming for their third straight win on its home course (2023 Boilermaker Invitational; 2023 Purdue Fall Invitational).
Action will get underway on Sunday at 9 a.m. ET, with the teams playing 36 continuous holes. Monday's final round will begin at 9:30 a.m. ET.
THE FIELD
Purdue
Ball State
Miami, Ohio
Southern Illinois
Toledo
Wisconsin
Illinois State
Indiana
Iowa
Northern Illinois
VCU
Western Kentucky
Marquette
Butler
Purdue Fort Waye
TEAM NOTES
PURDUE LINEUP
PREVIOUSLY AT THE PURDUE FALL INVITATIONAL
This marks the fourth Purdue Fall Invitational with two of the previous two tournaments played at the Kampen-Cosler Course. The Boilermakers have placed second (2021), third (2022) and first (2023). The Boilermakers have four top-five finishes in the three previous tournaments.
THE COURSE
The Kampen Course, a Pete Dye design, is an 18-hole, links-style, par-72 championship golf course featuring large bent-grass greens, fairways and tees. The layout presents a challenge for golfers of all abilities with vast sand bunkers, native grasslands, ponds and a natural celery bog. Kampen offers five sets of tees with the championship tees playing over 7,400 yards and the forward tees playing at 5,300 yards.
Kampen is rated one of the top collegiate courses in the nation and has been awarded 4.5 stars on Golf Digest's "Places to Play." Kampen receives high marks as it is ranked as one of the most difficult golf courses in Indiana.
WEATHER FORECAST
Sunday: Rain, 75 degrees, SSW wind 5-10 MPH.
Monday: Overcast, 74 degrees, NNE wind 5-10 MPH.
LIVE SCORING
Will be available on golfstat.com.
The Boilermakers have already won the Island Resort Intercollegiate earlier this month and are looking for their second title of the young season. Purdue has won its previous two home tournaments during the regular season, aiming for their third straight win on its home course (2023 Boilermaker Invitational; 2023 Purdue Fall Invitational).
Action will get underway on Sunday at 9 a.m. ET, with the teams playing 36 continuous holes. Monday's final round will begin at 9:30 a.m. ET.
THE FIELD
Purdue
Ball State
Miami, Ohio
Southern Illinois
Toledo
Wisconsin
Illinois State
Indiana
Iowa
Northern Illinois
VCU
Western Kentucky
Marquette
Butler
Purdue Fort Waye
TEAM NOTES
- Purdue's win in the season-opening event was its first season-opening win since the 2010-11 season when it won the Turning Stone Invitational in New York.
- The Boilermakers are looking for two titles in a three-event span for the second straight fall season (last year: won Windon Memorial Classic and Purdue Fall Invitational). Before last season, it hadn't happened since the 2015-16 campaign.
- Purdue is averaging 849.00 strokes per tournament through its first two events this fall. The Boilermakers haven't shot higher than 288 this season.
- Boilermaker individuals have posted five top-20 finishes this season, but are looking for their first top-five finish this season.
PURDUE LINEUP
- Kent Hsiao – Senior; Taipei, Taiwan
- Hsiao finished T-9th at the Island Resort Intercollegiate, but slipped to T-66th at the Inverness Intercollegiate.
- Hsiao has six top-40 finishes in his last seven events dating to last season.
- Nels Surtani – Senior; Indianapolis, Indiana
- 2024 Second-Team All-Big Ten selection.
- Owns a pair of top-25 finishes in both events this season.
- Has 13, top-20 finishes in 29 career events.
- Sam Easterbrook – Sophomore; Tomworth, England
- Finished T-6th at the season-opening Island Resort Intercollegiate, but slipped to T-73rd at the Inverness Intercollegiate.
- Has four top-10 finishes in 14 career events.
- Supapon Amornchaichan – Freshman; Bangkok, Thailand
- Played well in season opener, posting T-15 finish at 1-under par 215; played final two rounds in 2-under par.
- A highly-regarded recruit, Amornchaichan was an AJGA Honorable Mention All-America honoree.
- Kentaro Nanayama – Junior; Jakarta, Indonesia
- Finished T-9th at the season-opening Island Resort Intercollegiate.
- Missed the last tournament to play in a tournament in Indonesia.
PREVIOUSLY AT THE PURDUE FALL INVITATIONAL
This marks the fourth Purdue Fall Invitational with two of the previous two tournaments played at the Kampen-Cosler Course. The Boilermakers have placed second (2021), third (2022) and first (2023). The Boilermakers have four top-five finishes in the three previous tournaments.
THE COURSE
The Kampen Course, a Pete Dye design, is an 18-hole, links-style, par-72 championship golf course featuring large bent-grass greens, fairways and tees. The layout presents a challenge for golfers of all abilities with vast sand bunkers, native grasslands, ponds and a natural celery bog. Kampen offers five sets of tees with the championship tees playing over 7,400 yards and the forward tees playing at 5,300 yards.
Kampen is rated one of the top collegiate courses in the nation and has been awarded 4.5 stars on Golf Digest's "Places to Play." Kampen receives high marks as it is ranked as one of the most difficult golf courses in Indiana.
WEATHER FORECAST
Sunday: Rain, 75 degrees, SSW wind 5-10 MPH.
Monday: Overcast, 74 degrees, NNE wind 5-10 MPH.
LIVE SCORING
Will be available on golfstat.com.