UI golf trending upward as championship season begins

Apr. 26—URBANA — An early September victory in a loaded field at the Sahalee Players Championship in Sammamish, Wash., was a splashy start to the fall season for the Illinois men's golf team. The Illini beat runner-up Arizona State, ranked No. 2 nationally at the time and still in the top five now, by eight strokes. Star freshman Max Herendeen, playing basically in his back yard, lost in a ...