WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men’s golf team begins its 106th season of play this weekend, when it travels to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the Island Resort Intercollegiate at Sage Run Golf Club in Bark River, Michigan.
The Boilermakers are looking to defend their title at the event, in the first tournament of head coach Andrew Sapp’s second season in charge.
Purdue is coming off a strong 2024-25 season which saw it win three events and reach the NCAA National Championships for the second straight season. The Boilermakers begin this year looking for three straight trips to the National Championships for the first time since making 19 straight trips from 1949 to 1967.
Purdue is the only team in the field that reached the NCAA Championships last spring, but will face challenges from three other Big Ten teams in Michigan States, Michigan and Nebraska.
THE FIELD (Final 2025 Clippd Rankings)
38 – Purdue
60 – Michigan State
68 – Saint Mary’s
75 – Michigan
83 – Nebraska
91 – West Virginia
97 – UTEP
101 – Miami, Ohio
112 – UCF
123 – Illinois State
141 – Ball State
179 – South Dakota State
TEAM NOTES
• Purdue is looking for its second straight season-opening victory after winning last year’s Island Resort Intercollegiate by 13 shots. The last time Purdue won two straight season-opening tournaments came in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons.
• Purdue won three tournaments last season, the most for the program since the 2015-16 campaign (3).
• Purdue has won at least one tournament in four straight seasons entering this year.
• Purdue had just four team rounds of under par in the fall last season, compared to 11 during the spring portion.
• The Boilermakers finished last season with the second-best team scoring average in school history (286.62), just 0.19 strokes behind the 2021-22 campaign.
PURDUE LINEUP
• Sam Easterbrook (Jr. / Tomworth, England)
– 2025 First-team All-Big Ten honoree.
– Led team with 71.77 stroke average and finished with nine top-20 showings in 13 events (tied for 2nd in school history).
– Won the 2025 Puerto Rico Classic.
– Posted 11 rounds in the 60s – good for second in school history.
– Has a 72.50 career stroke average – good for second in Purdue history.
• Kentaro Nanayama (Sr. / Jakarta, Indonesia)
– Posted a 73.21 average in 24 rounds a year ago with 10 of the rounds being par or better.
– Had two top-20 finishes, including a T-18 finish at the Boilermaker Invitational where he was in the top…
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