Men's Golf: Ohio Northern (0-0 Overall) hosts ONU Invitational; at Ohio Dominican Invitational
Sunday-Monday, Sept. 5-6, 2021, 8 a.m. - Colonial Golfers Club, Harrod, Ohio
Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, 8 a.m. - Hickory Hills Golf Club, Grove City, Ohio
| Colonial Golfers Club site | Hickory Hills GC site | ONU's 2021-22 Preview |
This Weekend's Tournament: The Ohio Northern men's golf team will open its 2021-22 season by hosting the annual ONU Invitational at the Colonial Golfers Club in Harrod ... The tournament will start with 18 holes on Sunday with an 8 am shotgun start and will finish play with an 8 am shotgun start on Monday ... Bluffton, Defiance, Heidelberg and Northwestern Ohio will join the Polar Bears in the competition ... Northern will then travel to the Ohio Dominican Invitational on Tuesday for a 36-hole tournament with a 9 am shotgun start ... Senior Andrew Slusher headlines the returners after posting an average 18-hole score of 76.7 over 15.5 rounds in the spring, which ranks eighth-best in program history ... A three-year letterman, Slusher owns a 78.9 stroke average over 38.5 rounds in his ONU career and is coming off an All-Conference season courtesy of a 13th-place finish at the OAC Championships ... Jared Hernandez, another senior and three-year letter winner, placed 11th in the OAC Championships in the spring to earn All-Conference honors ... For the season, he finished with an average 18-hole score of 79.7 over 15.5 rounds, which was fourth-best on the team ... Fellow three-year letter winners Nolan Kimberly, Mason Roush, Sam Straker and Austin White round out the group of returning seniors.
ONU Returning Statistical Leaders (2020-21 Stats):
| Average | ||
| 1. | Slusher | 76.7 |
| 2. | Steyer | 77.8 |
| 3. | Kimberly | 79.0 |
ONU head coach Chad Bucci: Bucci is in his ninth season at ONU with a 242-258-9 record, a winning percentage of .484.
