Hoosier Amateur coming back to Pfau golf course in Bloomington

Jim Gordillo, The Herald-Times
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South sophomore Happy Gilmore watches his tee shot during the 2021 Golfweek Hoosier Amateur at IU's Pfau Course. Gilmore was ninth, the top finishing high school golfer in the field of mostly collegians. He's slated to compete again this year.
South sophomore Happy Gilmore watches his tee shot during the 2021 Golfweek Hoosier Amateur at IU's Pfau Course. Gilmore was ninth, the top finishing high school golfer in the field of mostly collegians. He's slated to compete again this year.

A handful of local and Indiana University golfers will hit the Pfau Course at IU starting Monday for the return of the Golfweek Hoosier Amateur.

The three-round event, open to men and women, will include more than 100 golfers. Among the 87 men listed are, with first-round tee times in parenthesis, Bloomington South's Happy Gilmore (11:57 a.m.) and Jacob Paine (10:21), South grad Drew Todd, now at Ball State (8:42), the University of Southern Indiana duo of 2022 City Golf champ Jason Bannister (9:00) and 2021 winner Jace Day (10:54), Brown County grad Bailey Howard (11:30) and Bloomington's Robert Wise (9:09) and three-time City Golf champ Mitch Oard (1 p.m.).

In addition, IU's Mitch Davis (12:06 p.m.), Eric Berggren (12:24), Noah Gillard (11:12 a.m.) and Robbie Bender (12:01) are also slated to play. Davis was the runner-up last year with a 211, losing on the first playoff hole to Notre Dame's Taichi Kho.

There are 24 in the women's field, including former IU player Hanna Tanaka (8:24).

A complete list of players, tee times and more information is available at https://bit.ly/3BN8J21.

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