BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The No. 6 Illinois Wesleyan University men's golf team heads to Sandestin, Fla. for the Golfweek October Classic. The 54-hole tournament will be hosted at Sandestin Golf Resort Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 18-20.
Representing the Green and White will be junior Pablo Castro (Palatine, Ill.-Palatine), sophomores Ryan Andrews (Libertyville, Ill.-Libertyville) and Ben Gelven (St. Louis, Mo.-Mary Institute and Country Day School), freshman Sam Uutala (Barrington, Ill.-Barrington), and sophomore Alex Rollman (Cincinnati, Ohio-Turpin).
Illinois Wesleyan checked in at No. 6 in the Golf Coaches Association of America's latest top-25 poll announced Friday, Oct. 16. Emory climbed into the No. 1 seat with 10 first-place votes and 345 points. Kenyon followed in second with 324 points, with Huntingdon sliding to third (310). Both Kenyon and Huntingdon garnered two first-place votes apiece. Carnegie Mellon (307) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (277) slotted just above IWU at fourth and fifth, respectively.
IWU will be one of 25 teams trekking to Florida, including seven nationally ranked squads in No. 3 Huntingdon, No. 10 Oglethorpe, No. 11 Whitman, No. 14 UW Eau Claire, No. 16 Bethel, No. 20 Hampden-Sydney, No. 23 Trinity (Texas), and No. 23 UW-Stout. St. John's (Minn.), Berry, Gustavus Adolphus, Southwestern (Texas), and LeTourneau enter the event receiving votes in the national poll. Rose-Hulman, Rhodes, Christopher Newport, Mississippi University for Women, Millikin, Grinnell, Spalding, Ohio Northern, Nebraska Wesleyan, Augustana, and Wabash round out the field.
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