UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men's golf team opens its 2021 spring schedule Friday-Saturday, Feb. 5-6 with 11 other Big Ten teams in the Big Ten Match Play Championship at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, Florida. The Nittany Lions are slated as a No. 4 seed and received a bye in the first round of the event. Penn State will face the winner of the No. 5 Iowa/No. 12 Nebraska on Friday, Feb. 5 with a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
The 11th-annual Big Ten Match Play Championship will be contested on the Conservatory and Ocean Courses with six individual matches comprising each team match.
Six Nittany Lions will represent Penn State this weekend: James Allen (Scarsdale, New York), Alec Bard (New Hartford, New York), Ryan Davis (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey), James McHugh (Rye, New York), Jimmy Meyers (Wexford, Pennsylvania) and Lou Olsakovsky (Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania).
The winner of the Friday afternoon match faces the winner of the match between No. 1 Northwestern and No. 8 Michigan State/No. 9 Maryland.
The Nittany Lions advanced to the Big Ten Match Play Championship match last season, tying the match 3-3 with Northwestern, but losing the tiebreaker, for Penn State's best finish, to date, in the event.
Scores from Big Ten Match Play will be available on GolfStat. A recap of Friday's match and results will be available on GoPSUsports.com.
