WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team resumes its 2025-26 season with the Puerto Rico Classic starting Monday at the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
The Boilermakers had a successful fall season, placing in the top six in four of their six tournaments and are looking to become a repeat winner at one of college golf’s most-prestigious events.
Purdue hasn’t played since the Steelwood Collegiate during the last week of October, which concluded a busy fall slate. The Boilermakers played six events in the fall, and will only have four regular-season tournaments this spring. This will be Purdue’s only action until March 22, when it heads to South Carolina for the Hootie at Bulls Bay.
This week’s 15-team field includes four other Big Ten teams as well as the nation’s top-two ranked teams (Virginia and LSU), in addition to six other schools, including Purdue, ranked in the nation’s top 50.
THE FIELD (Feb. 4, 2026 Clippd Rankings)
1 Virginia
2 LSU
14 Oklahoma
18 Tennessee
29 Louisville
32 Georgia
37 Purdue
49 South Carolina
67 Ohio State
76 College of Charleston
78 Marquette
87 Iowa
92 Minnesota
102 Wisconsin
138 North Florida
TEAM NOTES
• Purdue continues to avoid the big numbers on its counting team. Purdue’s top six players have accounted for just 27 double-bogeys in 1,728 holes played -- an average of one double-bogey every 64.0 holes played. Supapon Amornchaichan has just two double-bogeys in 252 holes played this season.
• Purdue is currently a cumulative 42-under par and has posted the second-, 14th- and 24th-lowest, 54-hole tournament scores in Purdue history. The Boilermakers’ current stroke average of 282.71 is almost four 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. The lone player without a top-10 finish is Amornchaichan, who placed ninth at last year’s NCAA Championships and leads the team with three top-20 showings.
PURDUE LINEUP
• Sam Easterbrook (Jr. / Tomworth, England)
... 2025 First-team All-Big Ten honoree.
... Owns 11 top-10 finishes in just 31 career events, ranking 10th on the Purdue career top-10 finish chart.
... Has a 72.25 career stroke average, good for second all-time behind All-American Herman Sekne (71.42).
... Owns 19 career rounds in the 60s and 42 of his 90 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.
... Won medalist honors at last year’s Puerto Rico Classic, posting a 15-under par 201, the fifth-best tournament score in tournament history.
• Supapon Amornchaichan (So. / Bangkok, Thailand)
... 47 of his 57 career rounds have been 75 or lower, including 29 of his last 31 rounds.
... Thirteen of his 17 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 19 career events.
• Kentaro Nanayama (Sr. / Jakarta, Indonesia)
... Continues to play at a high level, ranking second on the team with a 71.53 stroke average.
... Finshed tied for third at the Purdue Fall Invitational (-4, 212).
... Nine of his 17 rounds this season have been even- or under-par; 14 of his last 26 rounds dating to last year have been even- or under-par.
... Has a 72.34 career stroke average in 68 rounds, despite playing just 33 rounds on the counting team.
... Owns nine career top-20 finishes, including T-12 and T-3 in two of his last three 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 eight rounds of par or better through his first five tournaments.
... Five top-10 finishes in 18 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.
• Andre Zhu (R-Fr. / Richmond Hill, Ontario)
... Opened the season being named Big Ten Golfer of the Week after a T-3 showing at the Island Resort Intercollegiate (68-65-68=201).
... Finished tied for 13th at the Boilermaker Fall Invitational (73-70-70=213).
... Owns a 71.59 stroke average in 17 rounds and has eight rounds of even-par or better.
... Ranks second on the team with 191 pars made, one off the team lead (Easterbrook).
PREVIOUSLY AT THE PUERTO RICO CLASSIC
Purdue caught lightning in a bottle in last year’s event, winning the team title for the first time in 26 visits to the event. The Boilermakers topped No. 1-ranked Ole Miss by six shots, shooting a 39-under par 825 (274-274-277), highlighted by the top two individual finishers (1st - Sam Easterbrook; 2nd - Kent Hsiao). Purdue has finished in the top three just four times in the previous 26 years, but boast the last two individual medalists (Easterbrook - 2025; Nels Surtani - 2024).
THE COURSE
Stretching along the Grand Reserve beachfront peninsula, with El Yunque rainforest as a backdrop, patrons will experience an epic 18 holes of championship golf. After competing at the Rio Mar Country Club since its inception, the Puerto Rico Classic moved to the Grand Reserve Golf Club 2022 after being played at the Rio Mar Country Club previously.
WEATHER FORECAST
Monday: Mostly Cloudy, 79 degrees; NE winds 10-15 MPH
Tuesday: Partly Cloudy, 79 degrees; NE winds 10-15 MPH
Wednesday: Partly Cloudy, 79 degrees; E winds 10-15 MPH