Towson Men’s Golf Announces Nine-Tournament Schedule for 2026-27 Season

Towson University men’s golf officially has its roadmap for the 2026-27 season.

The Tigers and Director of Golf Mike Larkin announced a nine-tournament schedule Tuesday that will take Towson through four fall events, four spring regular-season tournaments and ultimately the Coastal Athletic Association Championships in South Carolina.

Towson will compete in several strong regional fields throughout the year, with trips to New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina highlighting the slate.

The Tigers enter the new season looking to build on one of their strongest CAA Championship performances in nearly a decade.

Fall Season Opens in New York

Towson begins competition Sept. 12 at the Doc Gimmler Invitational in Farmingdale, New York.

The St. John’s-hosted tournament will feature two rounds Sept. 12 before concluding with the final round Sept. 13.

Towson will not have much downtime before returning to competition.

The Tigers head to the River Run Collegiate beginning Sept. 21. Davidson will host the two-day, three-round tournament.

Towson then turns its attention toward West Virginia’s Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational.

That event begins Oct. 5, with the Tigers scheduled to play two rounds on the opening day before completing the tournament Oct. 6.

The fall portion of the schedule concludes Oct. 12 with another trip to New York for the Metropolis Intercollegiate, hosted by Columbia University.

That gives Towson four tournaments in roughly one month before the program transitions into its winter break.

Spring Schedule Begins in March

Towson will return to tournament action March 8 when it competes in the Babygrande Donald Ross Collegiate.

The event will be the Tigers’ only three-day tournament of the regular season.

Two weeks later, Towson heads to the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate, hosted by William & Mary, beginning March 22.

The Tigers will then have another two-week gap before competing in Richmond’s Giles Spratley Collegiate beginning April 5.

Towson wraps up its regular-season tournament schedule at the Rutherford Intercollegiate, hosted by Penn State, beginning April 17.

From there, the Tigers will turn their full attention toward the CAA Championships.

Towson Returns to Dataw Island for CAA Championships

Towson’s season will culminate at Dataw Island Club in St. Helena Island, South Carolina, where the Tigers will compete for the CAA championship.

Dataw Island will be familiar territory for Towson.

The Tigers competed there during the 2026 CAA Championships and delivered their best conference tournament finish since 2017.

Towson finished fifth as a team, marking its best CAA placement since the Tigers finished third nine years earlier. Ariihau Faana tied for fourth individually at 6-under par, while Sky Aung finished 13th at 2-under.

Faana’s fourth-place performance was Towson’s best individual finish at the conference tournament since Spencer Alexander placed third in 2017.

The Tigers also showed during the opening round last spring that they could compete near the top of the conference.

Towson shot 10-under par during the first round and sat in third place, with every golfer whose score counted shooting even par or better. Faana was second individually at 5-under, while Aung was also inside the top five at 4-under.

That performance gives Towson something tangible to build upon as it prepares for another trip to Dataw Island.

Experienced Core Gives Towson Reason for Optimism

The Tigers had several underclassmen play significant roles during last year’s conference championship.

Faana, Aung, Michael Matheson and Matthew Gonnello were all juniors during the 2025-26 season. Faana and Aung produced Towson’s two highest individual finishes at the conference tournament, while Matheson finished 26th and Gonnello placed 29th.

Faana was particularly impressive.

He played all three rounds of the CAA Championships at par or better, opening with a 5-under 67 before adding rounds of 72 and 71. He also led the championship field with 16 birdies.

Aung opened that tournament with a 4-under 68 and ultimately finished the championship at 2-under overall.

Those performances could give Towson an experienced foundation heading into the 2026-27 campaign.

Larkin remains in charge of the program, with Brian Sadler serving as associate head coach.

2026-27 Towson Men’s Golf Schedule

Fall

• Sept. 12-13 — Doc Gimmler Invitational — Farmingdale, New York — Hosted by St. John’s
• Sept. 21-22 — River Run Collegiate — Hosted by Davidson
• Oct. 5-6 — Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational — Hosted by West Virginia
• Oct. 12 — Metropolis Intercollegiate — Hosted by Columbia

Spring

• March 8 — Babygrande Donald Ross Collegiate
• March 22 — Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate — Hosted by William & Mary
• April 5 — Giles Spratley Collegiate — Hosted by Richmond
• April 17 — Rutherford Intercollegiate — Hosted by Penn State
• CAA Championships — Dataw Island Club — St. Helena Island, South Carolina

MSB Take

Towson’s 2026-27 schedule gives the Tigers a good mixture of competition, travel and preparation for the postseason.

The biggest storyline may be what Towson can do with the experience it gained last spring.

A fifth-place conference finish might not jump off the page, but it represented Towson’s best CAA Championship performance since 2017. More importantly, several of the golfers responsible for that performance were juniors.

Now Towson gets another full season to develop before returning to the same Dataw Island course where it showed signs of breaking through.

The Tigers have not won a CAA men’s golf championship since 2010, when the program earned a trip to the NCAA postseason.

A conference championship remains a difficult goal, but Towson enters 2026-27 with recent evidence that it can compete with some of the CAA’s best.

The road back to Dataw Island begins Sept. 12 in New York.

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