MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho Vandal men's golf enters the 2024 Big Sky Championship playing its best golf of the year. The Vandals swept the last three Player of the Week honors and tallied a pair of second place finishes and a dual win over Boise State in the inaugural Battle for Idaho last week at Hillcrest Country Club in Boise.
 
Four teams will play for the Big Sky Championship after Hartford dropped to Division III and Binghamton defected to the NEC. All four remaining teams are all ranked tightly in the current Clppd golf standings. Sacramento State (166), Northern Colorado (181), Idaho (184) and Weber State (199) are all with 33 spots of each other in the rankings leaving it all to be determined on the course.
 
Seniors Johannes Hounsgaard and T.J. Patterson will golf in the No. 1 and No. 2 spot respectively after putting together strong spring performances. Hounsgaard earned back-to-back Big Sky Player of the Week honors after finishing second at both Torrey Pines and Chambers Bay.
 
Sam Johnson will play from the No. 3 spot while Joe Sykes, coming off an individual win in the Battle for Idaho and Big Sky Player of the Week honors, will play at No. 4.
 
Junior Matt McGann will golf in the No. 5 spot for the Vandals after a seventh-place finish in Boise. Dalton Dean made the trip as an alternate.
 
The Vandals finished third at the tournament in 2023 with two Vandals finishing in the top-10.
 
The tournament will be held at the Wigwam Gold Course in Litchfield Park, Arizona. It will play at 7,051 yards and as a Par-72. The first group is scheduled to tee off at 6:30 a.m.  
 
A live leaderboard is available via Golfstat.com.