| 2022 BIG TEN MATCH PLAY | |
| Dates | Friday-Saturday, Feb. 4-5 |
| Location | Hammock Beach Ocean Course | Palm Coast, Fla. | Par 72, 6,981 yards |
| Scoring | Live Scoring |
| Field | Purdue, Northwestern, Michigan State, Indiana, Penn State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Rutgers, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland |
| Match Play Bracket | Bracket |
| Competing Nittany Lions | Patrick Sheehan, Lou Olsakovsky, Jimmy Meyers, Morgan Lofland, James Allen and Jake Griffin |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men's golf team, led by head coach Greg Nye, heads down to sunny Florida to open its 2022 spring season at the Big Ten Match Play event at Hammock Beach Resort's Ocean Course on Friday and Saturday.
The Nittany Lions are slated as a No. 5 seed in the 11-team field and will have a first-round bye. Penn State opens match play action against fourth-seeded Indiana Friday with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The winner of the Penn State-Indiana match advances to take on the winner of No. 1 Purdue vs. No. 8 Rutgers/No. 9 Nebraska on Saturday at 8 a.m. The championship match is slated for a 1 p.m. start on Saturday afternoon.
Penn State traveled the group of Patrick Sheehan, Lou Olsakovsky, Jimmy Meyers, Morgan Lofland, James Allen and Jake Griffin. Five Nittany Lions will compete in each round. Sheehan led the way for the Nittany Lions in the fall, placing in the top 10 in four of five fall tournaments.
The Nittany Lions finished fifth in last season's Big Ten Match Play event, after making the championship match in 2020.
Live scoring of the Big Ten Match Play event will be available on GolfStat. A recap of each day's results will be available on GoPSUsports.com.