Purdue Opens Fall Campaign at Badger Invitational

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team opens its anticipated 2022-23 season Sunday when it travels to University Ridge Golf Club in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Badger Invitational.
 
Purdue is looking to continue its surge on the national level, having made eight NCAA Regional appearances in the last nine seasons with three trips to the National Championships during the Rob Bradley era.
 
Excitement is high for the program after a very strong summer that saw several players win individual medalist honors. Four players that saw action in the NCAA Regionals last year return, headlined by All-American candidate and 2022 first-team All-Big Ten honoree Herman Sekne. Four players on the counting team in Wisconsin own top-10 finishes during their career, and the one golfer that hasn’t had a top-10 finish, Peyton Snoeberger, reached the Round of 32 at the U.S. Amateur in mid-August.
 
The field in Wisconsin features a wide variety of squads, including three SEC teams and four Big Ten teams among the 18 teams competing.
 

Purdue will tee off Sunday at 9:30 a.m. ET, off hole No. 1, being paired with Texas A&M and Wisconsin.
 
THE FIELD (Golfstat Rankings – End of 2022)

15           Texas A&M
21           Ole Miss
26           South Carolina
28           Purdue
30           South Florida
60           UAB
75           Cincinnati
93           Marquette
97           Wisconsin
115         Nebraska
121         Campbell
125         Illinois State
139         Augusta
140         Northern Illinois
145         Western Carolina
159         South Dakota State
164         Maryland
190         Western Kentucky
 
LAST TIME OUT
Purdue placed seventh at the NCAA Palm Beach Regional last May with four players seeing action in the Regional round. Herman Sekne placed T-28^th, Andrew Farraye was T-38^th and Nick Dentino (two rounds) and Peyton Snoeberger (one round) played as well. In 2022-23, the Boilermakers will be looking for their eighth NCAA appearance in nine possible trips under Bradley.
 
TEAM NOTES

• Purdue will play its first of five scheduled fall events this weekend at the Badger Invitational at University Ridge GC in Madison. A simultaneous…