Husker Trio Named Big Ten Golfers to Watch

Nebraska's Will Marshall, Gentry Scheve and Harry Crockett were among the list of Big Ten Men's Golfers to Watch when the conference announced its list of preseason top players on Tuesday, Aug. 29, ahead of the opening of the 2023-24 collegiate season.

Marshall, a graduate student from Elburn, Ill., posted a 73.68 stroke average over 28 rounds for the Huskers as a senior in 2022-23. He has competed in 61 rounds for Nebraska through his first four seasons in Lincoln while producing a 74.57 career stroke average. He is also a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.

Scheve enters his fourth season at Nebraska after recording a 73.35 stroke over 14 rounds for Coach Judd Cornell's team a year ago. The senior from Emporia, Kan., has competed in 26 rounds for the Huskers in his career, posting a 74.50 stroke average. He has also earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

Crockett (Oxted, England) enters his second season as a Husker after transferring from Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College, where he was the 2021 NJCAA individual runner-up and a two-time first-team All-American for the two-time NJCAA Division I champions. As a sophomore at Nebraska in 2022-23, Crockett set the school single-season stroke average record (71.82) while playing in 11 rounds, including a third-place finish at the Purdue Fall Invitational.

Nebraska opens its fall season at the first Visit Knoxville Collegiate hosted by the University of Tennessee. The 14-team tournament will be held at Tennessee National Golf Club in Loudon (Sept. 8-10). Live scoring will be provided by Spikemark.