Ducks Set for First Big Ten Championships

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon men's golf team will tee it up for the first time at the Big Ten Championships this weekend at Baltimore Country Club in Maryland. The Ducks are eying their 16th conference title all time and first since 2017.

UO will play 18 holes on the par-70, 7,181-yard course on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday's final round will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network starting at 10 a.m. PT. Live scoring will be provided by Clippd Scoreboard.

The Ducks have finished either fourth or fifth in each of their last five conference tournaments, including a T4 result in 2024.

Oregon wrapped up the regular season earlier this month, finishing tied for eighth place at the 78th Western Intercollegiate presented by Titleist. The Ducks shot 13-over in their first six-count-five event of the year but closed strong, being one of only two teams in the field to shoot under par in the final round. Greyson Leach (+2, 21), Aiden Krafft (+3, T22), Ramil Saelim (+3, T22) and Eric Doyle (+4, T30) all finished in the top 30 individually.

THE COURSE
Dates – April 25-27
Site/Course – Baltimore, Md. / Baltimore Country Club
Course Information – Par 70, 7,181 yards
Live Scoring – Clippd Scoreboard

THE FIELD
No. 11 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, No. 27 Northwestern, Ohio State, No. 36 Oregon, Penn State, No. 37 Purdue, Rutgers, Southern California, No. 13 UCLA, Washington, Wisconsin

THE LINEUP
1) Greyson Leach (Sr.) – Runner-up at the Bandon Dunes Championship.
2) Aiden Krafft (Jr.) – Medaled at the Sahalee Players Championship at -4 (212).
3) Eric Doyle (Sr.) – Three top-10 finishes this season.
4) Ramil Saelim (Fr.) – Finished T6 at the Bandon Dunes Championship and T3 at the Duck Invitational.
5) Jay Gould-Healy (Jr.) – T10 finish at The Preserve.

TEE IT UP

» Oregon won back-to-back events for the first time since the 2022-23 season by finishing atop the leaderboards twice in the state of Oregon, taking home the team title at both the Bandon Dunes Championship and UO's own Duck Invitational. Oregon led wire-to-wire at Bandon Dunes as Greyson Leach (2nd, -4), Aiden Krafft (4th, -1) and Ramil Saelim (T6th, +5) all finished in the top 10 individually. Saelim led the charge at Eugene Country Club, tying for third with a 7-under 206, and Eric Doyle added his third top-10 result of the season with a 5-under 208.

» The Ducks' 284.63 scoring average in 5-count-4 events this season is the third-lowest in program history. This season's tally only trails those of the 2023-24 (282.74) and 2009-10 (283.44) teams.

» Eric Doyle ended the fall and kicked off the spring with his two of the strongest outings of his senior season, tallying back-to-back top-five finishes. After a fourth-place result at the Preserve Golf Club Collegiate to close the fall slate, Doyle posted a career-low 199 (-17) at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate that included a 9-under 63 in the opening round, spurring a fifth place result individually. He became just the sixth UO golfer in program history to shoot under 200 in a 54-hole tournament and the first to do so on a par-72 course, and his Day 1 score was the fifth lowest by a Duck and the second-lowest score to par.

» Greyson Leach has tallied 95 birdies so far during his senior season, bringing his career total up to 392 and within reach of 400. He would become just the 12th Oregon golfer to eclipse that mark in green and yellow since the 1993-94 season. Eric Doyle (292) and Aiden Krafft (288) are also rapidly approaching 300 career birdies. Krafft leads all Ducks this season with a career-high 116 birdies.

» Aiden Krafft started his 2024-25 season off with his first collegiate victory at the Sahalee Players Championship. The junior carded a 4-under 212 over a challenging two days at Sahalee, leading the field in par-5 scoring average (4.33, -8) and tying for second in total birdies (12). The result marked both Krafft's first career top-20 and top-10 finish.

» Greyson Leach ranks sixth in program history with a 71.79 career scoring average after carding 12 rounds under par so far this season, while Aiden Krafft sits just behind him in seventh with a 71.91 career mark. Norman Xiong holds the Oregon team record at 69.05.

» The Ducks clock in at No. 36 nationally in the latest Clippd poll, the fourth-highest-ranked team in the Big Ten. Aiden Krafft (70.93), Greyson Leach (71.10) and Eric Doyle (71.37) lead the way for the Ducks in scoring average through 10 tournaments this year and have combined for 307 birdies and eight eagles in 2024-25.

» Aiden Krafft has cracked the top 100 in the latest Clippd player rankings, coming in at No. 91. Greyson Leach and Eric Doyle sit just behind him in the standings, ranking No. 101 and No. 114, respectively.