WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team pieced together three consistent rounds to cruise to its first tournament title of the season at the Purdue Fall Invitational.
Purdue totaled a 25-under par 839 (282-277-281) to outdistance second-place Butler by 19 shots. The 19-stroke margin is the second-largest margin in a Purdue tournament victory in school history.
It marks the fourth tournament title in just the second year for head coach Andrew Sapp and pushes the Boilermakers’ record well above .500 in head-to-head standings with one tournament remaining this fall.
Purdue’s team score of 839 is the 14th-best, 54-hole score in Purdue history, while the 839 marks the second-lowest collegiate tournament score ever recorded at the Kampen-Cosler Course, behind an 829 by Illinois in the 2015 Boilermaker Invitational (spring).
Purdue won the team title with a loaded effort at the top of the leaderboard, as three players finished in the top three and two more finished in the top 15. It marks the first time since the 2010-11 season that five Boilermakers finished in the top 20 of a tournament.
Leading the charge was freshman Will Harvey, who posted rounds of 70-71-70=211 (-5) for a runner-up finish. Harvey used birdies on 14 and 16 to move into a share of the lead, but a bogey on the difficult 18th dropped him one shot off the pace. He recorded his first top-5 finish as a Boilermaker.
Meanwhile, Sam Easterbrook played outstanding golf over the last 36 holes for a T-3 showing at 4-under par 212 (75-70-67). Like Harvey, Easterbrook was tied for the medalist lead heading into No. 18, but a double-bogey dropped him to 4-under par. Nonetheless, it marked Easterbrook’s 11th career top-10 finish, now tied for the 10th most in a career in Purdue history.
Kentaro Nanayama also had his finest performance as a Boilermaker, matching Easterbrook in a third-place tie at 4-under par 212 (71-67-74). Nanayama suffered a double-bogey on the par-5 6th hole that dropped him two off the pace at the end of the round.
Andre Zhu (73-73-70) and Supapon Amornchaichan (68-68-80) tied for 13th at even-par 216.
Playing as individuals, Jenson Forrester tied for eighth at 2-under par 214 (70-71-73), Yilin Sun was tied for 37th at 7-over par 223 (80-70-73) and Leo Aaraas was tied for 54th at 11-over par 227 (72-77-78).
Purdue will wrap up the fall season on Oct. 25 and 26 at the Steelwood Collegiate in Loxley, Alabama.