INDIANAPOLIS – For the ninth-straight event, the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN) will stream three days of coverage of the 2024 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Men's Golf Championship, which begins Sunday at Paradise Pointe Golf Complex in Smithville, Missouri.
GLVCSN will stream live and free coverage of the 45th annual event, which will be contested April 21-23 for the second time at this course. The Outlaw Course will be set up at a par of 72 and 6,938 yards.
The GLVC Championship features a 54-hole stroke play event with the top-four teams after stroke play competing in medal/match play to determine the Conference champion. A total of 36 holes will be played on Sunday, April 21, followed by 18 holes on Monday, April 22. The semifinals and finals of medal/match play will take place on Tuesday, April 23.
The top-five finishers at the GLVC Men's Golf Championship are named All-GLVC, and the top-finishing individual after 54-hole stroke play will earn 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 in the weeks following the Championship by a vote of the coaches.
The GLVCSN’s coverage will begin Sunday at 7:30 AM CT with a two separate video-only broadcasts from No. 1 and 10 tees. Monday’s coverage will mirror the video-only tee times, starting at 8 AM. Tuesday will begin at 8 AM for medal/match play semifinals from both 1 and 10 tees with video-only broadcasts. The individual awards’ ceremony will be streamed live on Monday afternoon, following the conclusion of stroke play and ahead of the selection show for the semifinal round of the medal/match play competition. The team champion awards’ ceremony will also be covered live after the 2024 GLVC Champion is determined on Tuesday afternoon.
Full coverage with commentary from Tyler Madsen, who was also on the call for this event in 2021, will begin later each morning at approximately 10 AM. Coverage will feature 8 green, as well as tees 9 and 14, among other select shots. Live interviews with the league’s 12 head coaches throughout each day of competition will also be featured.
Listed coverage is weather permitting and subject to change. Any updates to this schedule will be relayed on the Championship homepage, as well as on social media, which can be accessed by visiting the links and accounts noted below.
Missouri S&T returns to the GLVC Championship as the No. 1 seed for stroke play, as the Miners currently rank as the top GLVC squad and second overall in the Scoreboard by Clippd Midwest Region rankings. Second-seeded University of Indianapolis (4th in the Midwest) and third-seeded University of Missouri-St. Louis (8th) will compete in threesomes with S&T during the first set of tee times off tee 1, while seeds 7-9 will begin at the same time off tee 10, which respectively includes Rockhurst University (20th), Maryville University (22nd), and Lewis University (24th). McKendree University (9th), William Jewell College (15th), and Drury University (17th) will play together in the second wave off tee 1 as teams seeded fourth through sixth, respectively. Teeing off second from tee 10 will be No. 10 seed University of Illinois Springfield (28th) alongside No. 11 Upper Iowa University (29th) and No. 12 Quincy University (32nd).
In 2023, McKendree earned its first GLVC title by winning a tiebreaker over UMSL, 367-375, in the medal/match play finals after playing to a 2.5-2.5 tie.
S&T's Carl Miltun fired a 54-hole total of 13-under-par 203 to win medalist honors, carding rounds of 70-63-70. The junior eclipsed the GLVC Championship record of 209 by six strokes and now owns the largest margin of victory in Championship history, as well, beating the previous mark of nine strokes. His second-round score of 63 beat the course record, and, according to available league records, the previous GLVC Championship low of 65. The top-five finishers – which included ties – were named to the first half of the All-Conference squad. Joining Miltun as an All-GLVC honoree was UMSL senior Cyril Henault (74-70-69), who finished runner-up after shooting a 3-under-par 213. The 2022 GLVC Champion, Joel Sylven of UMSL (73-72-69–214), placed third ahead of McKendree's Fabian Wennerlof (74-73-71–218). The fifth spot ended in a three-way tie between two Tritons, Nick Hedberg (73-75-72–220) and Juan Antonio Padilla (75-72-73–220), and Illinois Springfield freshman Alex Seibal (76-70-74–220).
UIndy has captured 16 GLVC Championships, followed by Lewis and former league members Bellarmine and Northern Kentucky with six each. Missouri-St. Louis has earned three titles, while Maryville has won two. McKendree, as well as former members Southern Indiana, UW-Parkside, and Ashland have all claimed the GLVC Championship once.
Admission to the 2024 GLVC Men's Golf Championship is free to the public, while spectator carts can be rented for $30 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Live and free coverage can be seen by logging on to the GLVCSN's official website,
GLVCSN.com, or on the GLVCSN iOS/Android mobile apps, as well as on the Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV OTT platforms. Live scoring will be available through Golfstat.com or on the GLVC Men's Golf Championship page at
GLVCsports.com/2023mgolf. Updates will also be included on the GLVC's official social media accounts (@
GLVCsports and @
GLVCSN) with the hashtags #GLVCmgolf and #GLVCchamps.