The No. 47 Iowa State Men’s golf team will compete in the General Hackler Championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for the fourth consecutive year this weekend.

This year’s 15-team field features eight schools that have won a tournament this season and nine schools that are currently among the nation’s top-50. The schools are No. 3 Virginia, No. 9 LSU, No. 12 Kent State, No. 15 Wake Forest, No. 35 North Florida, No. 38 Kentucky, No. 39 South Carolina, No. 45 North Carolina State.

The Cyclones are coming off a victorious National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, Arizona, where they scored a total of 832 (274-275-283).

Iowa State will rely on the expertise of redshirt junior Denzel Ieremia, seniors Ruben Sondjaja and Nick Voke, who have all competed in this tournament before and can provide a lot of insight to freshmen Tripp Kinney and Sam Vincent.

Voke was the most recent Cyclone to win the General Hackler Championship back in the 2014-2015 season, when he tied with North Florida’s Joey Petronio and Winthrop’s Zach Seabolt. They all combined for a score of 212.

“Nice to have won in the past, but need a different mindset” Voke said.

In order to regroup themselves this week, the team had a three-hour strategy meeting to discuss weather conditions and game planning.

In golf, the players are not aware of their scores until the end of the rounds, having a “solid game plan and try to execute the game plan” is the best strategy any golfer can have, both Voke and Vincent said.

The Cyclones last victory in the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin, in September 2016 followed by a tied for eighth finish in their next tournament, Pinetree Invitational.

“We need to keep focus,” coach Andrew Tank said. “Not get compensative just cause we won a couple of games.”