AMES, Iowa – The Cyclones look to improve their resume at the Big 12 Championship for a chance to make an NCAA Regional as a team for the first time since the 2018-19 season. The Big 12 Championship will take place on Tuesday, April 22nd and conclude on Thursday, April 24th. Iowa State, the No 12 seed in the Big 12, will kick things off at 8:30 a.m. CT on Tuesday morning. Live coverage of the final round on Thursday can be found on ESPN+ starting at 11:30 a.m. CT.
Players Attending (Alphabetically): Paul Beauvy, Luke Gutschewski, Zach May, Luke Metcalf, Owen Sawyer, Dianchao Wu
COURSE INFORMATION
Southern Hills Country Club is best known for its Championship Golf Course, which is recognized among the top 100 courses in the world and has been the host to 17 Championships since 1945. Major championship golf returned to Southern Hills in May 2022 for an unprecedented fifth PGA Championship, which was won by Justin Thomas.
KEY STORYLINES
– Iowa State tied for ninth place with Drake two weeks ago at the Tiger Collegiate Invitational, after shooting the third-lowest final round in the field (+1).
– Picking up eight wins at the Tiger Collegiate Invitational, ISU now has over 100 victories against opponents this year, with a record of 102-46-5 (0.667) heading into the Big 12 Championship.
– The Cyclones finished the regular season with two individual medalists. Paul Beauvy shot fifteen under-par and carded a career-low 201 to win the N.I.T. back in February. Zach May shot ten under-par and carded a career-low 206 to win the Bell Bank “Pay It Forward” Collegiate in March.
– Beauvy sits in second on the lowest stroke average in a season list in school history, with a score of 70.81. Luke Gutschewski is in ninth with 71.48. No Cyclone has ever averaged sub-70 throughout a season.
– The Cyclones currently have three golfers inside the Top-10 of the career stroke average list. Gutschewski sits atop the list at 71.54, Beauvy is second with 71.74, and Owen Sawyer is now in seventh with 72.61.
– Iowa State has won three tournaments in the 2024-25 season, matching last year’s three tournament wins. The Cyclones have won the Gopher Invitational, the Zach Johnson Invitational, and the Bell Bank “Pay It Forward” Collegiate.
