LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College men's and women's golf is set to host and compete at the 2025 Northwest Conference Fall Classic on Sunday, October 12 and Monday, October 13. This year's tournament will be held at the Lake Oswego Country Club.
LIVE COVERAGE
Men's Livestats Link
Women's Livestats Link
TEE TIMES
On Sunday, the men's teams will tee off first and the women will follow. They will switch on Monday, with the women's teams teeing off first, followed by the men's teams.
The earliest groups will tee off at 8:30 a.m. each morning. The latest groups are scheduled to tee off at 12:22 p.m. Sunday's tee times were determined by how teams finished in the Northwest Conference Standings during the 2024-25 season. Tee times on Monday will be determined by order of finish on Sunday. The top teams in the standings after Day One will be the final teams to tee off on Monday.
Sunday's Schedule:
Men's Start Times and Groupings:
Willamette, George Fox, Whitworth
Whitman, Pacific Lutheran, Puget Sound
Linfield, L&C, Pacific
Women's Start Times and Groupings:
George Fox, Whitworth, Puget Sound
Whitman, Lewis & Clark, Linfield
Pacific, Pacific Lutheran, Willamette
SPECTATOR INFO
Tickets are not needed for this weekend's NWC Championship event. Fans are expected to follow the Lake Oswego Country Club rules guide and the Northwest Conference Spectator Policy and will be warned and potentially removed if they don't comply.
There are two additional parking lots at OLCC that are one street down on the left and right of the main entrance.
Lake Oswego Guest Rules & Etiquette Policy
Northwest Conference Fall Classic Rules
INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY
In the event of lightning within 10 miles of the course, play will be suspended. Officials will sound air horns and all players and spectators should proceed to Murphy's (below the pro shop).
NWC FIELD OVERVIEW
George Fox University enters the tournament as the favorites after winning 12-consecutive Northwest Conference Championships. Despite graduating four of their top five players from a team that finished fourth at Nationals last Spring, George Fox (+54) finished first out of six Northwest Conference Teams at the Pacific Invitational (October 4-5). First year Ashlyn Johnson (+9) and junior Sofia Itziar Ayesa (+14) finished second and third out of 50 golfers at the two-day event. Whitman College, Pacific University and Whitworth University have all finished in the top-four of the women's standings the past two seasons. Whitworth (+74) and Pacific (+90) finished third and fourth at the Pacific Invitational, just behind Lewis & Clark College (+70).
Willamette University and Whitman College are expected to be two of the top contenders on the men's side. The two teams have finished first and second in the NWC Standings the past three years, with Willamette coming out on top last Spring. The Bearcats won the NWC Fall and Spring Classic last season and finished second behind host Linfield at the NWC Championship. Whitman finished in the top three of all three tournaments and won the NWC Title in 2024. Thus far this season, both teams have won two of their events and neither has finished below second place at a tournament. In the only head-to-head meeting, Willamette (-6) finished six strokes ahead of Whitman (Even) to finish first out of 13 teams at the Pacific Invitational. George Fox University (+8), Lewis & Clark College (+11) and Pacific Lutheran University (+12) placed third through fifth at the event.
LEWIS & CLARK PREVIEW
The Lewis & Clark women's team is aiming to take another step forward, after finishing fifth in the Northwest Conference last season. The fifth-place showing was their best as a program since the 2018-19 season. Lewis & Clark sophomore
Ahika Jani will be one of the favorites for NWC Player of the Year after finishing second at least year's NWC Championship. Jani won last weekend's Pacific Invitational by three strokes and posted an under-par round for the first time in her career (70, -1). Fellow sophomores
Evie Denton and
Julia Klenk both played in the Lewis & Clark lineup all of last season and will look to help lead a young squad. Denton finished eighth at last year's NWC Fall Classic and tied for 11
th at the Spring Classic. This year's team will also include first years
Darwyn Kormany and
Kimber Yoder. The duo will both be making their NWC Conference debuts on Sunday.
The men's team has been showing off their depth all Fall – as the team's B Squad has been proving competitive against A squads in both of their first two competitions. Junior
Luke Blankinship and sophomores
Mason Hill and
Charlie Hageman were the only three Pioneers to play at all three NWC events last season. Hageman delivered top-10 results at the NWC Fall Classic (t-8
th) and Spring Classic (t-5
th). Blankinship (t-5
th) and Hill (t-10
th) each finished in the top-10 at the Spring Classic. Junior
Kenji Pickeral and sophomores
Tanner Moody and
Joonho Moon all earned spots in the lineup in at least one of the NWC events last year. As a team, Lewis & Clark has finished in the top four in back-to-back events and will be looking to improve upon their sixth-place finish in the NWC Standings from a year ago. They placed in seventh at the NWC Fall Classic to open the year, before finishing fourth at the NWC Spring Classic and tied for fifth at the NWC Championship.
