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June 24, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS – Prep players may have to wait a little longer to start accepting scholarship offers.
June 18, 2010
LPGA officials must know every manicured inch of Rich Harvest Farms by now. After all their time spent at the Sugar Grove golf course in advance of last year’s Solheim Cup, several returned this month to discuss the premise of returning annually.
May 26, 2010
The top Mid-American Conference institutional awards were handed out Wednesday as Kent State was awarded the Reese Trophy representing the top men's athletic program and the Jacoby Trophy representing the top women's athletic program.
May 3, 2010
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team concluded its season with a sixth-place finish at the Mid-American Conference Men’s Golf Championships on Sunday at the undulating fairways of Longaberger Golf Club.
May 1, 2010
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team made the most of moving day on Saturday, shooting their lowest round of the season at the Mid-American Conference Men’s Golf Championships, held at Longaberger Golf Club.
April 30, 2010
Matt Triplett and Jeff Dick posted Northern Illinois’ lowest rounds on Friday during the first two rounds of the 2010 Mid-American Conference Men’s Golf Championships.
April 24, 2010
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team posted a seven-over-par (295) to conclude the first round of the Boilermaker Invitational in ninth place at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on Saturday afternoon.
April 15, 2010
After undergoing an 18-month, campus-wide effort to study its intercollegiate athletics program as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletics certification program, Northern Illinois University has received the highest classification of "certified," the NCAA announced Thursday. This is the third time Northern Illinois has successfully gone through the organization's certification process.
April 12, 2010
After two rounds, 36 holes of competition at the University of Missouri’s Columbia Orthopaedic Group OG Mizzou Intercollegiate, the Northern Illinois men’s golf team stands in a tie with Mid-American Conference foe Ball State for eighth place.
April 6, 2010
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team claimed two of the top three individual finishes at the 54-hole, two-day Branson Creek Invitational, scoring a season-best fourth-place team finish, as Jeff Dick won his first collegiate tournament and Griffin Bauman posted his best collegiate finish by taking third.
March 26, 2010
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Finishing Day One ahead of the Big Ten Conference’s No. 85 Ohio State and Wisconsin, the Northern Illinois men’s golf team put together an 18-hole total of 301 (+17) to place 14th in the 54-hole, three-round Florida Atlantic Invitational at Gleneagles Country Club, Friday.
March 14, 2010
PINEHURST, N.C. - After advancing two spots to capture eighth place in yesterday's second round of the Pinehurst Intercollegiate the Northern Illinois men's golf team posted a strong finish in the third and final round at the par 72, 7,009 yard Centennial No. 8 to secure an eighth place finish Sunday. In their spring season opener, the Huskies totaled an 897 (301, 298, 298) to tie Eastern Kentucky for eighth, while Virginia Tech won the event with a combined score of 876.
November 18, 2009
The Northern Illinois men's golf team announced its lone National Letter of Intent today, as the Huskies will add Shawn Foley to their 2010 roster, marking first-year head coach Tom Porten's first recruit at Northern Illinois.
October 13, 2009
DAVIDSON, N. C. – The Northern Illinois men's golf team improved upon yesterday's second round score by 18 strokes in Tuesday afternoon's final round of the Davidson Invitational at the River Run Country Club (Par-72, 7,208 yards), but the Huskies were unable to gain any positions on the competition as NIU finished in 12th place (302-327-309 --- 938, +74).
October 12, 2009
DAVIDSON, N.C. – The Northern Illinois men's golf team completed the first two rounds of the Davidson Invitational on Monday evening at the River Run Country Club (Par-72, 7,208 yards) as the Huskies ended the day in 12th place with a stroke total of 629.
September 30, 2009
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – The Northern Illinois men's golf team entered the final 18 holes of play at the ORU Shootout, hosted by Oral Roberts, in 10th-place, just a stroke behind Louisiana-Monroe and two behind Centenary. As promised by first-year head coach Tom Porten, the Huskies delivered by moving ahead of ULM and tying Centenary with a final round 314, improving upon their second round score by four strokes at The Golf Club of Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon.
September 28, 2009
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – The Northern Illinois men's golf team wrapped up the first two rounds of the ORU Shootout, hosted by Oral Roberts, at The Golf Club of Oklahoma on Monday evening standing in 10th place after 36 holes of play at the par-72, 7,183-yard course.
September 20, 2009
KINGSLEY, Mich. The Northern Illinois men's golf team wrapped up its weekend at Michigan State's Spartan Classic by posting a 301 in the final 18 holes at The Kingsley Club, which dropped the Huskies one spot from where they entered the day to an eighth-place finish. The Huskies' three-round total score was an 883 as UC-Davis won the 14-team tournament with an 847.
The Northern Illinois men's golf team finished the first day of Michigan State's Spartan Classic in seventh-place out of 14 teams with a score of 582 through 36 holes at The Kingsley Club on Saturday. The Huskies shot a 302 in the morning 18 holes and improved in the afternoon 18 with a score of 280 as they trail leader UC-Davis (557) by 25 strokes.