HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Florida - Ryan Andrews (Illinois Wesleyan) competes during Round 1 at the 2026 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships on May 12, 2026 at Mission Resort. (Photo by Jimmy Naprstek/Kodiak Creative)

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Men’s Golf to Wrap up Fall Season at Golfweek Classic

Titans sit sixth in latest national poll

10/16/2026 4:00:00 PM

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The No. 6 Illinois Wesleyan University men's golf team heads to Sandestin, Fla. for the Golfweek October Classic. The 54-hole tournament will be hosted at Sandestin Golf Resort Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 18-20.

Representing the Green and White will be junior Pablo Castro (Palatine, Ill.-Palatine), sophomores Ryan Andrews (Libertyville, Ill.-Libertyville) and Ben Gelven (St. Louis, Mo.-Mary Institute and Country Day School), freshman Sam Uutala (Barrington, Ill.-Barrington), and sophomore Alex Rollman (Cincinnati, Ohio-Turpin).

Illinois Wesleyan checked in at No. 6 in the Golf Coaches Association of America's latest top-25 poll announced Friday, Oct. 16. Emory climbed into the No. 1 seat with 10 first-place votes and 345 points. Kenyon followed in second with 324 points, with Huntingdon sliding to third (310). Both Kenyon and Huntingdon garnered two first-place votes apiece. Carnegie Mellon (307) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (277) slotted just above IWU at fourth and fifth, respectively.

IWU will be one of 25 teams treking to Florida including seven nationally ranked squads in No. 3 Huntingdon, No. 10 Oglethorpe, No. 11 Whitman, No. 14 UW Eau Claire, No. 16 Bethel, No. 20 Hampden-Sydney, No. 23 Trinity (Texas), and No. 23 UW-Stout. St. John's (Minn.), Berry, Gustavus Adolphus, Southwestern (Texas), and LeTourneau enter the event receiving votes in the national poll. Rose-Hulman, Rhodes, Christopher Newport, Mississippi University for Women, Millikin, Grinnell, Spalding, Ohio Northern, Nebraska Wesleyan, Augustana, and Wabash round out the field.

Tee times and live scoring will be provided by Scoreboard, and will be available here.

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