The 2018 Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Golf Championship will be held at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, on April 22-24. This year's event marks the 40th annual GLVC Men's Golf Championship.
The GLVC Championship features a 54-hole stroke play event with the top-four teams following stroke play competing in medal/match play to determine the Conference champion. A total of 36 holes are played on Sunday, April 22, followed by 18 holes on Monday, April 23. The semifinals and finals of match play will take place on Tuesday, April 24.
The GLVC Men's Golf Championships will once again be streamed live and free on all GLVC Sports Network platforms, including GLVCSN.com, iOS/Android mobile apps, and Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV OTT apps. A complete schedule will be announced during championship week.
Indianapolis has captured 15 GLVC Championships, followed by Bellarmine, Lewis and Northern Kentucky with six each. Missouri-St. Louis earned both of its GLVC titles over the past three seasons, the first of which came in 2015 when Prairie View Golf Club served as host for the first time. Southern Indiana, UW-Parkside, and former league-member Ashland have all claimed the GLVC Championship once.
The top-five finishers at the GLVC Men's Golf Championship are named All-GLVC, and the top finishing individual after 54-hole medal play earns medalist honors. The remaining golf awards, including All-Conference positions Nos. 6-10, as well as GLVC Player, Freshman, and Coach of the Year, are named following the spring season.
Last season, fourth-seeded Bellarmine turned in impressive team performances en route to its first GLVC Championship since 2004. The Knights completed the effort by defeating the two-time defending champions in No. 1 University of Missouri-St. Louis 3-2 during the Medal/Match Play Semifinals before advancing to its battle with Drury, where they picked up the league’s first Match Play Finals sweep at 5-0 to claim the trophy.
Bellarmine sophomore James Inman continued his impressive postseason career as he helped secure the Knights' team title with 1-under-play and rounds of 71 and 72 in medal/match play action, after winning GLVC medalist honors at 3-under 213 (74-69-70). Coupled with his runner-up at the 2016 event at 4-under and a 2-over 74 in the 2016 medal/match play semifinal, Inman enters the 2018 event having played nine career GLVC Championship rounds at 6-under.
Inman secured the 2017 title by a shot over Illinois Springfield senior Talon Supak (68-74-72--214). UMSL senior Julien de Poyen (68-74-74--216) was third, while a pair of his teammates -- Markus Lindberg (75-72-71) and Jose Acevedo (74-70-74) -- tied for fourth with UIndy junior and 2016 GLVC Champion Graham McAree (73-71-74) at 2-over 218.
Admission to the 2018 GLVC Men's Golf Championship is free to the public.