PEORIA, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan – the winner of the last 11 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Golf championships – will be the favorite again this weekend when all nine league teams begin competition at the 54-hole tournament Thursday through Saturday at WeaverRidge Golf Club in Peoria, Ill.
 

Team (First-place votes)	Points
1. Illinois Wesleyan (8)	64
2. Carthage (1)	57
3. Millikin	46
4. Augustana	38
5. Wheaton	36
6. North Central	26
7. Carroll	24
8. Elmhurst	18
9. North Park	15

Each round will begin at 8 a.m. at WeaverRidge, which opened in 1997 on the northwest edge of Peoria. Groups of three will tee off every nine minutes, with the final group scheduled to begin Thursday at 10:06 a.m. Last season’s medalist – Quinn Clifford of Illinois Wesleyan – will tee off Thursday at 8:27 a.m. alongside Carthage’s Tanner Angelstad and Millikin’s Virgile Gruny.
 
It’s the second consecutive season the championship has been held at a first-time location after the 2023 tournament was played at Whitetail Ridge Golf Club in Yorkville, Ill.
 
IWU received the maximum point total possible in a pre-championship coaches poll conducted last week. Carthage, which has finished second or third in every CCIW championship since 2014 – is the coaches’ pick to finish second in 2024.
 
Millikin was slotted third in the poll. The Big Blue was the last team other than IWU to win the event in 2011. MU was followed by Augustana and Wheaton in fourth and fifth, respectively. North Central, Carroll, Elmhurst and North Park occupied the final four spots.