CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – University of Illinois men’s golf head coach Mike Small announced the program’s complete schedule on Tuesday, adding six spring events to the team’s previously announced fall slate leading up to the 2025 postseason.
Illinois’ 2024-25 season, the 25th under Small’s guidance, opens next week at the Folds of Honor Collegiate.
“Both the fall and spring portions of our schedule feature a combination of familiar and new events that are designed to prepare our team as we build toward our championship goals,” Small said. “Each season, we build a schedule to facilitate the physical and mental growth necessary to reach our standard. Beginning next week, each event will offer unique challenges and opportunities to test ourselves in first-class tournaments against the top programs in the nation.”
SEPTEMBER
The season opens Sept. 9-11 when the Fighting Illini tee off at the Folds of Honor Collegiate, co-hosted by Folds of Honor, Michigan State, Florida State, the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA), and HNS Sports Group, at American Dunes Golf Club in Grand Haven, Michigan. It marks the second time in the field at Folds of Honor for the Illini who won the inaugural event in 2022 behind a stellar performance (T3) from then-sophomore Jackson Buchanan.
The 2024 Folds of Honor Collegiate will feature live television coverage on Golf Channel and Peacock.
Following play in Michigan, Illinois hosts another of the season’s most prestigious collegiate events at famed Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois. The Fighting Illini will once again welcome 14 peers for the 18th annual OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational, Sept. 20-22, contested on the Par-70, 7,310-yard North Course. The event is recognized annually for offering a demanding but fair early-season test that attracts one of the best fields in collegiate golf.
The Orange and Blue remain in Illinois to close out the first month of the season at the Windon Memorial Classic, hosted by Northwestern at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, Sept. 29-30.
OCTOBER
Illinois closes out the fall with a pair of new challenges over an eight-day span along the Gulf Coast.
First, the Orange and Blue tee off at the Fallen Oak Collegiate Invitational, co-hosted by Southern Miss and Ole Miss at Fallen Oak at Beau Rivage Resort &…
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