Will Marshall and Gentry Scheve both produced top-20 finishes to lead the Nebraska men’s golf team to a tie for seventh at the 2024 Big Ten Championship presented by Old National Bank in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday.
Marshall, a fifth-year senior from Elburn, Ill, put together his best tournament finish of the season on the 7,240-yard, par-70 layout at the Scioto Country Club. He closed his conference championship appearance with a final-round 74 (+4) to lead the Huskers on Sunday. Marshall also led NU with an opening-round 73, before adding a 78 on Saturday. He finished with a three-round total of 225 (+15) over 54 holes to tie teammate Gentry Scheve for 19th in a field that featured 70 individuals.
Scheve, a senior from Emporia, Kan., capped his impressive conference tournament performance with a final-round 78 (+8) to match Marshall with a team-best 225 (+15). Scheve’s effort included a second-round 71 (+1) after opening the tournament on Friday with a 76.
The top-20 finishes by Marshall and Scheve marked Nebraska’s best individual Big Ten Tournament showings since Tanner Owen and Jay Cottam tied for 16th in 2019. Nebraska's tie for seventh in the team standings also marked its best conference tournament finish since 2019, when the Huskers took fifth.
With Marshall and Scheve leading the way, the Huskers moved up one spot in the final team standings into a tie for seventh at 904 (300-298-306). Junior Hamish Murray contributed a final-round 76 (+6) while fellow junior Harry Crockett added a 78 (+8) to complete Nebraska's 306 team score on Sunday. Murray (Sydney, Australia) and Crockett (Oxted, England) tied for 52nd overall with three-round totals of 232 (+22). Sophomore Davis Johnson rounded out the Husker contingent in a tie for 57th at 234 (+24).
The Huskers matched No. 88 Rutgers and No. 89 Wisconsin at 904 (+64) in the final team standings. Nebraska ended the tournament three strokes in front of No. 84 Michigan and Penn State (907), five shots ahead of Iowa (909) and nine strokes in front of No. 98 Minnesota (913). The Big Red also beat Maryland (934) by 30 strokes.
No. 44 Northwestern (863) pulled away for the team title at 863 (+23). The Wildcats fired the best final round of the tournament with a 289 (+9) to finish 15 shots ahead of runner-up Illinois (875), after the No. 18 Illini put up Sunday’s second-best round with a 292 (+12). No. 28 Purdue (886), No. 74 Michigan State (889), No. 37 Ohio State (890) and No. 46 Indiana (902) rounded out the teams ahead of the Huskers.
Northwestern’s Daniel Svard (211) captured the conference individual title on the strength of a final-round 68 (-2). Svard managed a one-shot win over runner-up Jackson Buchanan from Illinois who finished at 212 (+2), including an even-par 70 in the final round. Northwestern’s James Imai and Michigan State’s Ashton McCulloch tied for third at 215 (+5).
Svard, Buchanan, Imai, McCulloch, Herman Sekne (Purdue), Neal Shipley (Ohio State) and August Meekhof (Michigan State) claimed spots on the Big Ten All-Championship Team. Sekne added recognition as the conference's Les Bolstad Award winner.
Big Ten Championship
April 26-28, 2024
Columbus, Ohio
Scioto Country Club (Par 70, 7,240 Yards)
Final Team Results
1. (44) Northwestern - 280-294-289=863 (+23)
2. (18) Illinois - 290-296-292=878 (+38)
3. (28) Purdue - 288-301-297=886 (+46)
4. (74) Michigan State - 286-291-312=889 (+49)
5. (37) Ohio State - 291-297--302=890 (+50)
6. (46) Indiana - 290-309-303=902 (+62)
T7. (89) Wisconsin - 290-303-311=904 (+64)
T7. (88) Rutgers - 292-305-307=904 (+64)
T7. Nebraska - 300-298-306=904 (+64)
T10. (84) Michigan - 305-304-298=907 (+67)
T10. Penn State - 294-306-307=907 (+67)
12. Iowa - 294-310-305=909 (+69)
13. (98) Minnesota - 293-316-304=913 (+73)
14. Maryland - 307-316-311=934 (+94)
Final Individual Results
1. Daniel Svard, Northwestern - 68-75-68=211 (+1)
2. Jackson Buchanan, Illinois - 71-71-70=212 (+2)
T3. James Imai, Northwestern - 68-74-73=215 (+5)
T3. Ashton McCulloch, Michigan State - 71-69-75=215 (+5)
T5. Herman Sekne, Purdue - 73-72-72=217 (+7)
T5. Neal Shipley, Ohio State - 74-69-74=217 (+7)
T5. August Meekhof, Michigan State - 67-74-76=217 (+7)
T8. Hunter Thomson, Michigan - 76-74-69=219 (+9)
T8. Ethan Tseng, Northwestern - 71-74-74=219 (+9)
10. Cameron Adam, Northwestern - 73-71-76=220 (+10)
Nebraska Individuals
T19. Will Marshall - 73-78-74=225 (+15)
T19. Gentry Scheve - 76-71-78=225 (+15)
T52. Hamish Murray - 76-80-76=232 (+22)
T52. Harry Crockett - 83-71-78=232 (+22)
T57. Davis Johnson - 75-78-81=234 (+24)