The 2014 Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Golf Championship will be held at Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus, Ind., on April 20-22. This year's event marks the 36th annual GLVC Men's Golf Championship.
The 2014 event will mark the 19th year the GLVC Championship will be played at Otter Creek Golf Course, which will be played on the North and West courses at a par of 72 and 6,897 yards.
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 20, followed by 18 holes on Monday, April 21. The semifinals and finals of match play will take place on Tuesday, April 22.
Indianapolis has captured 14 GLVC Championships, followed by Lewis and Northern Kentucky with six each and Bellarmine with five. Southern Indiana, UW-Parkside and former league-member Ashland have all claimed the GLVC Championship once.
Last season, Indianapolis won the conference crown at Otter Creek following a 4-1 match-play victory over Lewis. The third-seeded Greyhounds, who advanced to the finals following a 4-1 win over No. 2 Bellarmine in the morning semifinal, earned their GLVC-record 14th conference title and the league’s automatic qualifier to the NCAA Championships.
No. 4 seed Lewis, the owner of six conference golf crowns, upset top-seeded University of Missouri-St. Louis in semifinal action by a score of 3-2.
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.
UMSL's Joe Atkisson was crowned the 2013 GLVC Medalist following a one-hole, sudden-death playoff against Rockhurst University’s Tanner Bulejski. Atkisson (70-73-71) and Bulejski (72-72-70) did not disappoint as both players carded a 2-under-par 214 – the only 54-hole rounds under par.
Admission to the 2014 GLVC Men's Golf Championship is free to the public.