WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team continues to ramp up its spring season, heading to the Florida Gulf Coast for the elite Calusa Cup, held at Calusa Pines Golf Club in Naples, Florida.
The Boilermakers will be one of just eight teams in the field that features two of the top-three ranked teams in the country (Virginia, Florida). Five of the eight teams are ranked in the top 50 nationally. The Boilermakers finished fourth in last year’s event, it’s second-highest placing in school history at the Calusa Cup after finishing as the runner-up in 2024.
Purdue is coming off a fourth-place tie at last week’s Hootie Intercollegiate, the Boilermakers fourth top-five placing in eight events this season.
Action will begin Sunday and run through Tuesday with the field playing 18 holes each day. This marks the second-to-last event of the regular season. Purdue will head to the Hoosier Collegiate on April 19-20, before traveling to Oregon for the Big Ten Championships on May 1-3.
THE FIELD (April 1, 2026 Clippd Rankings)
2 Virginia
3 Florida
34 Louisville
45 Purdue
47 South Florida
88 Iowa
105 Eastern Michigan
126 Miami, Ohio
TEAM NOTES
-- Purdue’s stroke average of 283.00 is currently the lowest in school history.
-- Purdue is a combined 67-under par through its 23 rounds this season. Fifteen of the 23 rounds have been even- or under par.
-- Purdue has had just four top-5 individual finishes this season. However, five of Purdue’s six regulars have at least two top-20 placings.
-- All six of Purdue’s regulars have had rounds of 68 or better.
-- With a minimum of 20 rounds played, all six Boilermakers currently rank in the top 20 of single-season stroke average, led by Sam Easterbrook’s 70.96 average, good for fourth.
PURDUE LINEUP
Sam Easterbrook (Jr. / Tomworth, England)
o 70.96 stroke average; 3 top-10 finishes; 6 rounds in the 60s.
Kentaro Nanayama (Sr. / Jakarta, Indonesia)
o 71.65 stroke average; 3 top-20 finishes; 6 rounds in the 60s.
Andre Zhu (R-Fr. / Richmond Hill, Ontario)
o 71.65 stroke average; 2 top-20 showings; 11 rounds of par or better.
Will Harvey (Fr. / Westfield, Indiana)
o 72.20 stroke average; 3 top-20 showings; 4 rounds in the 60s.
Jenson Forrester (Jr. / Wolverhampton, England)
o 72.35 stroke average; 1 top-10 showing; 10 rounds of par or better.