CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Fighting Illini men’s golf program announced Thursday that an exhibition match play event against Florida State has been added to the team’s spring schedule.
Illinois, which closed the fall portion of the season ranked 12th nationally in the NCAA Division I team, will face the No. 31 Seminoles on Saturday, Feb. 1. The match will be contested at the Watersound Club’s Camp Creek Golf Course in Inlet Beach, Florida, approximately 120 miles west of the FSU campus on the Florida panhandle.
The head-to-head contest will serve as a final tune-up as both teams prepare for the second half of the 2024-25 season, and what each hopes is another deep postseason run. Both Illinois and Florida State have advanced to match play at the NCAA Championship in three of the last four season. Illinois owns the most NCAA match play appearances with nine since the current format was adopted in 2008-09.
Following the matchup with FSU, the Illini will then face six regular-season stroke play events leading up to the 2025 Big Ten Championship in late April. The Illini and Seminoles are both slated to host NCAA Regionals at their home courses, May 12-14, and the NCAA Championship is set for May 23-28 at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
2025 SPRING SCHEDULE
FEBRUARY
The spring slate opens in earnest, Feb. 13-15, at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate hosted by Hawai’i at The Ocean Course at Hokuala in Lihue, Kaua’i, Hawai’i. It marks the Illini’s first trip to the islands since 2020 when the team posted a fourth-place finish in the same event.
MARCH
March features a stretch of three tournaments beginning with the Illinois’ fourth straight season in the field at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, March 2-4, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event, hosted by UNLV, annually draws a strong field of championship-caliber programs to test themselves on a challenging desert track. The Illini won the event in 2023.
The Orange and Blue close out the month at a pair of events new to the team’s schedule. First Illinois heads to California to compete, March 17-18, at Loyola Marymount’s Pauma Valley Invitational at Pauma Valley Country Club. Two weeks later, the Illini close the month, March 31-April 1, in Cordova, Tennessee, for the Memphis Intercollegiate at Colonial Country Club.
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