BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's golf team will compete at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Men's Golf Championships Saturday through Monday, Sept. 27-29, at Edinburgh USA.
St. Olaf will go head-to-head with eight other teams – four who are receiving votes in the Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll – in the three-day, 54-hole conference championship, which will get underway with tee times starting at 10:27 a.m. on Saturday. The first Ole will tee off at 11:57 a.m. on day one, with tee times for the other two days depending on results from the previous round. Tee times start at 10:27 a.m. on Sunday and 8:48 a.m. on Monday.
Live scoring will be available throughout the event. Spectators are welcome to attend the championships and must follow all
local and
spectator rules. No spectator carts will be available.
St. Olaf is looking to improve off a seventh-place finish last season with a lineup of senior
Isaac Schmidt, sophomore
Ryan Herbst, junior
Quinn Nevell, sophomore
Will Black, and junior
Ike Vessey. Schmidt will be playing in his fourth MIAC Championships and has placed in the top 20 in each of the last three seasons, led by a tied-for-11th finish last year.
Vessey will be in action at the MIAC Championships for the third time, highlighted by a tied-for-19th performance as a first year in 2023. Black and Nevell both played in the event last year, while this year will be Herbst's first conference championship appearance.
St. Olaf will head to Brooklyn Park looking to carry momentum over from the program's best fall in recent memory, with the Oles' scoring average of 300.8 being over six shots better than the team's scoring average in any season since 2009-10. Schmidt and Herbst have both recorded a pair of top-five finishes in St. Olaf's four tournaments to date, with Schmidt leading the team with a 72.8 scoring average and Herbst right behind at 74.0.
The Oles have won the MIAC Men's Golf Championship on eight occasions but have not done so since 1982 (1934, 1935, 1936, 1936, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1982). Justin Volling '12 is the lone St. Olaf individual medalist at the championship, sharing the championship with Alex Kapruan of the University of St. Thomas in 2011-12.
