WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team concludes its fall season this weekend when it heads to the deep south for the Steelwood Collegiate, held at Steelwood Country Club in Loxley, Alabama.
The Boilermakers will be playing for the fifth time in six weeks and are looking for back-to-back tournament victories for the second straight season after winning the Purdue Fall Invitational 10 days ago at the Kampen-Cosler Course. The victory catapulted Purdue to No. 33 in the initial Clippd golf rankings and ended a strong two-week run for the Boilermakers after finishing fifth at the difficult Fighting Irish Classic.
This tournament concludes the fall portion of Purdue’s schedule -- a stretch that featured six tournament appearances for the Boilermakers. Purdue will play just four regular-season tournaments during the spring campaign.
Purdue needed a strong result in last week’s home event and got it with strong performances up and down the lineup. Purdue won the tournament by 19 strokes, the second-largest margin of victory in a Boilermakers’ victory in school history. It featured all five players finishing in the top 15 and the second-lowest tournament score EVER recorded at the Kampen-Cosler Course.
This week’s 14-team field includes two other Big Ten teams as well as national powers Wake Forest and Texas A&M. Twelve of the 14 teams are ranked inside the nation’s top 100.
THE FIELD (Oct. 22, 2025 Clippd Rankings)
25 Wake Forest
33 Purdue
35 West Virginia
38 Texas A&M
51 Rice
56 Kansas State
64 South Alabama
66 Nebraska
67 Memphis
78 Rutgers
89 Kennesaw State
95 Iowa State
111 Virginia Tech
189 Louisiana Tech
TEAM NOTES
• Purdue continues to avoid the big numbers on its counting team. Purdue’s top six players have accounted for just 22 double-bogeys in 1,512 holes played -- an average of one double-bogey every 68.7 holes played. Kentaro Nanayama, Will Harvey and Supapon Amornchaichan have just two double-bogeys each.
• Purdue is currently a cumulative 43-under par and has posted the second-, 14th- and 24th-lowest, 54-hole tournament scores in Purdue history. The Boilermakers’ current stroke average of 281.93 is almost five shots per round lower than the school-record number of 286.63 during the 2021-22 season.
• Purdue has shot 280 or better in all three rounds in a tournament seven times in school history. Three of the occurrences have come under head coach Andrew Sapp.
• Five of Purdue’s six regulars have a top-10 finish this season, with four of them boasting a top-5 showing.
PURDUE LINEUP
• Sam Easterbrook (Jr. / Tomworth, England)
... 2025 First-team All-Big Ten honoree.
... Owns 11 top-10 finishes in just 30 career events, ranking 10th on the Purdue career top-10 finish chart.
... Has a 72.24 career stroke average, good for second all-time behind All-American Herman Sekne (71.42).
... Owns 19 career rounds in the 60s and 41 of his 87 career rounds have been even or under par.
... Finished T-6th at the season-opening Island Resort Intercollegiate at 12-under par 204 (71-66-67); was 11-under par 133 over his final two rounds.
... Rallied after a tough opening round to finish tied for third at the Purdue Fall Invitational, his seventh career top-5 finish.
• Supapon Amornchaichan (So. / Bangkok, Thailand)
... 45 of his 55 career rounds have been 75 or lower, including 27 of his last 29 rounds.
... Twelve of his 15 rounds so far this season have been between 68 and 73.
... Finished T-9th at the NCAA Championships, the highest finish for a Boilermaker since 1961.
... Finished T-15 at the season-opening Island Resort Intercollegiate, his third straight top-15 finish dating to his freshman season.
... Surged to a T-12 finish at the Fighting Irish Classic and leads the team with two top-20 showings.
... His top-10 finish at last year’s NCAA Championships remains his only career top-10 to date, in 18 career events.
• Kentaro Nanayama (Sr. / Jakarta, Indonesia)
... Continues to play at a high level, leading the team with a 70.83 stroke average.
... Finshed tied for third at the Purdue Fall Invitational (-4, 212).
... Nine of his 15 rounds this season have been even- or under-par; 14 of his last 24 rounds dating to last year have been even- or under-par.
... Has a 72.23 career stroke average in 66 rounds, despite playing just 31 rounds on the counting team.
... Owns nine career top-20 finishes, including T-12 and T-3 during his last two tournaments.
... Won the Badger Individual to start his redshirt freshman year in Sept. 2022.
• Will Harvey (Fr. / Westfield, Indiana)
... Finished runner-up at the Purdue Fall Invitational (-5; 211), the first runner-up or better finish for a Purdue freshman since Nick Dentino in August 2019.
... Has two top-20 finishes this season.
... His 64 at the Island Resort Intercollegiate was the lowest round by a Purdue freshman in school history.
• Jenson Forrester (Jr. / Wolverhampton, England)
... Played well as an individual at the Purdue Fall Invitational, finishing T-8 at 2-under par 214.
... Owns six rounds of par or better through his first four tournaments.
... Five top-10 finishes in 17 career events.
... Inserted into the starting lineup at Notre Dame and finished T-23 at 4-over par 214, his second straight top-25 showing at Notre Dame.
PREVIOUSLY AT THE STEELWOOD COLLEGIATE
This marks Purdue’s first appearance at the Steelwood Collegiate. Purdue last played in Alabama during last year’s NCAA Regionals at Auburn, finishing fourth to advance to the NCAA Championships.
THE COURSE
Nestled against a pristine lake just outside Mobile, Steelwood was designed by 1976 U.S. Open Champion Jerry Pate. Despite the flat topography of the region, Pate created numerous elevation changes and fairway undulations to challenge players. The course opens with several holes along Steelwood Lake and then heads into a more heavily wooded area before returning to the lakeside to close an 18-hole golf course designed by former U.S. Open Champion Jerry Pate. Stretching more than 7,100 yards, this award-winning championship golf course meanders through rolling hills, dense hardwood forests and natural wetlands. More than one third of the course offers panoramic views of Steelwood Lake including the 18th hole.
WEATHER FORECAST
Saturday: Mostly Cloudy, 80 degrees; ESE winds 10-15 MPH
Sunday: Thunderstorms, 74 degrees; SE 10-15 MPH