GALLOWAY, N.J. – The Fighting Illini men’s golf team, ranked No. 3 nationally in the latest Golfstat team rankings, tees off this week at Galloway National Golf Club for the 2023 Big Ten Men’s Golf Championship.
The Orange and Blue are in search of the program’s eighth consecutive conference title, their 13th in the last 14 league championships dating back to the 2008-09 season, and the program’s 20th Big Ten crown overall.
THE SETTING
The 2023 Big Ten Men’s Golf Championship is hosted at Galloway National Golf Club in Galloway, N.J. Described as a “world class private golf club with the New Jersey shoreline as its backdrop that would challenge the serious golfer,” Galloway National was completed in 1995. The course overlooks 5,000 feet of bay front property that is just north of the Atlantic City skyline. With its dramatic contours, ideal soil, lush wooded coverage, and breathtaking vistas, the course has become one of the most highly ranked in the country.
The design and construction of the course was commissioned to Tom Fazio, who said that Galloway National is blessed with all the ingredients that make a water front course so endearing and so challenging. The gentle contours, dense pine forest, sand, water, and wind are all the raw materials needed to construct Galloway National.
Galloway National Golf Club has hosted many championships for the New Jersey State Golf Association, Golf Association of Philadelphia, NCAA, and USGA. Most notably the club hosted the 2012 USGA Men’s State Team Championship.
The course was also the site of the 2009 NCAA Men’s Golf Northeast Regional, where the Illini placed third, led by Scott Langley who tied for seventh to help the Illini advance through to the NCAA Championship. The next season, Langley would go on to claim the individual national title at the 2010 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The 54-hole tournament will be played over three days, Friday-Sunday, with 18 holes slated for each day. The low four scores will count towards the team score in each round. Tee times for Friday and Saturday begin at 9 a.m. ET/8 a.m. CT. Sunday’s final round is scheduled to tee off beginning at 8 a.m. ET/7 a.m. CT, and will be immediately followed by the awards ceremony.
THE FIELD
The field will include all 14 Big Ten men’s golf programs. The…
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