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South Dakota State University Athletics
Sunday, April 27
Mesa, Ariz. | Longbow Golf Club
South Dakota State University
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The Summit League Championship
Photo by: Kaylee English
SUMMIT CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS SUNDAY
4/26/2025 9:07:00 AM | Men's Golf
| SUMMIT LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP |
| When | Sunday, April 27 to Tuesday, April 29 |
| Where | Longbow Golf Club | Mesa, Ariz. |
| Participating Teams | Oral Roberts, North Dakota State, St. Thomas, Denver, South Dakota, Kansas City, South Dakota, Northern Colorado, Omaha, Weber Stats, North Dakota |
| The Course | Longbow Golf Club | Par 71 - 7,050 yards |
| Live Scoring | Scoreboard by Clippd |
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MESA, Ariz. - The South Dakota State men's golf team is set for the Summit League Championships, which run Sunday through Tuesday at Longbow Golf Club.Â
The Jackrabbits enter the weekend seeded seventh per the Clippd national rankings, but have the League's scoring average leader in Ty Kretz. SDSU will tee off with Northern Colorado and Omaha at 7:50am MST Sunday morning on hole 10.Â
Kretz and Bryson Mercier will lead the Jackrabbits as the top-two golfers this week. Kretz, a Summit League First Team selection, averages a conference-best 72.0 shots per round in his senior season. Mercier, who earned an honorable mention All-Summit nod, averages 73.4 strokes and has the team's best single round of the year - a 65 at the Jackrabbit Invitational. Tyler Seeling joined Kretz and Mercier as the trio that played all 10 events for the Jacks this season. Seeling averages 74.3 shots and posted a career-best 66 at the Nebraska Invite in September.Â
Drew Teeter and Jake Olson round out SDSU's lineup for the week. Teeter has played in the team in five of six events this spring with is best finish coming two weeks ago at the Hawkeye Invitational. Teeter went 1-under over three rounds and placed 12th. He also fired a 68 on his second lap at the Boilermaker Invitational last weekend. Olson tallies a 75.4 scorecard, on average. He placed 11th at the Jackrabbit Invite in March, his best finish of the year. This is the fourth event of the season with this Jackrabbit lineup.Â
JACKRABBIT LINEUP
1. Ty Kretz
2. Bryson Mercier
3. Tyler Seeling
4. Drew Teeter
5. Jake Olson
Sub:Â Blake Schaper
CHAMPIONSHIP SEEDINGÂ (First Round Starting Tee Times)
1. Oral Roberts (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
2. NDSU (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
3. St. Thomas (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
4. Denver (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
5. South Dakota (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
6. Kansas City (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
7. South Dakota State (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
8. Northern Colorado (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
9. Omaha (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
10. Weber State (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
11. North Dakota (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
- The 2025 Men's Golf Championship will be played in the Grand Canyon State with the 54-hole championship set for a par-71, 7,050-yard layout at the Longbow Golf Club.
- Back-to-back champion Kansas City will look for the second straight three-peat among league champions after Denver won the 2019, 2021 and 2022 titles. The tournament was not held in 2020 due to Covid.
- The Roos are led by freshman Mason Haley, who earned all-league first team honors and a spot on the all-freshman team after posting a 72.5 stroke average. Â
- Oral Roberts earned the top seed in this year's championship after owning the top Clippd team ranking among the 11 participants in this year's event.
- South Dakota owns the top stroke average in the league entering the championship at 289.3 through nine regular season events. South Dakota won the La Tour Intercollegiate under the direction of first-year head coach Chad Green.
- The top returner for the Coyotes is graduate student Max Schmidtke, who currently owns the second-best stroke average in the league at 72.1. Schmidtke heads into the championship as the only player with a pair of top-five finishes to his credit this season.
- Fellow Coyote Joe Rohlwing also owns a top-five stroke average among league players, ranking fourth with a 72.5 clip.
- South Dakota State follows close behind with a 292.2 stroke average in 10 tournaments. The Jackrabbits earned a tournament title during the regular season by winning their own invitational played at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Nevada.
- SDSU is led by senior Ty Kretz, who owned the league's top stroke average at 71.9.
- Denver ranked third with a 292.4 stroke average through nine events and are coming off a runner-up finish at UCSB Gaucho Invite with a score of 862(-2). Denver secured four top-five finishes as a team under second-year head coach Gary Bissell.
- Leading the Pios efforts this season was Willis Panzarello, who was fifth among league golfers with a stroke average of with 72.9. His 65 in the second round of the Bank Bell "Pay It Forward" Intercollegiate matched the low round of the regular season by a Summit League golfer.Â
- SDSU's Bryson Mercier also posted a 65 (-7) in the second round of the Jackrabbit Invitational.
- NDSU was led by senior Ian Simonich and junior Rylin Petry, who led league golfers with four top-10 finishes after posting a 72.97 stroke average and sharing the league lead with 17 rounds at par or better.Â
- Simonich earned a two top-five finishes was one of two Summit golfers to win an individual title, taking medalist honors at the Tommie Invitational.
- The Tommies had two players in the league's top 10 of scoring average as both Owen Rexing (6th; 72.95) and Matthew Armstrong (9th; 73.04) landed on the all-league second team. Armstrong joined Simonich with an individual title, taking first place at the SeattleU Redhawk Invitational. The Tommies also won the program's first team title at the Division I level during the event in the Pacific Northwest.
- Omaha is led by junior Nolan Johnson, who had a pair of top-10 finishes during the season, and, as a team, the Mavericks secured three top-five finishes with a stroke average of 296.33.
- North Dakota finished up the regular season with a third-place finish at the WIU Intercollegiate.
- Northern Colorado and Weber State will make their Summit League Championship debuts after finishing their first seasons as league affiliate members. UNC was sixth with a 294.6 stroke average in nine tournaments, while Weber State finished with a 296.4 and won the Bill Cullum Invitational back in the fall.
- Freshman Matthew Wilson turned in three top-10 finishes -- a feat only accomplished by three other league golfers during the regular season.
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