2025-26 Men's Golf Roster
Biography
- Class of 2025 signee
Honors
All-SoCon: 2026
SoCon Freshman of the Year: 2026
SoCon All-Freshman: 2026
SoCon Golfer of the Week: April 8, 2026
Collegiate Wins
2026 Racer Intercollegiate: 70-69-70=209 (-7)
Amateur Wins
2026 Georgia State Am: 69-69-72-68=278 (-10)
End of Season National Ranking
2025-26: 127
2025-26 (Freshman)
- Started all 12 events and the dual vs UAB...71.81 strokes per 18 ranked second only to Ward Harris...counted on 33 of 36 team scores.
- SoCon Freshman of the Year...All-SoCon...SoCon All-Freshman...helped the program to two team wins: SoCon Championships & Racer Intercollegiate...also keyed the Mocs advancement from NCAA Bryan Regionals to the NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa.
- 4th Moc to capture FOTY honors: Derek Rende (2007), Jaeger (2009) & Andrew Weathers (2015).
- Got his first collegiate win at the Racer Intercollegiate...shot 7-under 209 with consistent rounds of 70, 69 and 70...produced 12 birdies and 35 pars to balance just five bogeys...earned SoCon Golfer of the Week for his performance.
- Team bests with 20 par or better cards and 10 in the 60s...9th Moc to record 20 in a season and seventh with double-digits in the 60s.
- Had a string of six straight par or better finishes snapped at the NCAA Championships...six top 10s are most by a freshman in school history topping Jonathan Hodge (5, 2005-06).
- Burst onto the collegiate scene with a top 5 in the opener tying for fifth at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate at Tennessee National...shot 65-72-69 for a 4-under 206...first of four top 5s: Racer Intercollegiate (1st), SoCon Championships (3rd) and NCAA Bryan Regionals (T4).
- His opening card of 65 proved low for the season...matched it in the first round of the Western Intercollegiate and again in the second round in Bryan...low 54-hole score was 12-under 204 at regionals.
- School-record 144 birdies topping 139 by John Houk in 2022-23...highs of nine in a round (VisitKnoxville Coll. Rd1) and 18 for a tournament (VisitKnoxville Coll.)...recorded 16 birdies at Pasatiempo at the Western Intercollegiate and 17 at the NCAA Bryan Regionals.
- Four eagles with a high of one in a round...two at the Invitational at the Honors Course was his tourney best.
- A.D. Honor Roll.
Season Scoring
Tournaments: 12 | Rounds: 36 | Counters: 33/36
Strokes: 2,585 | Average: 71.81
Wins: 1 | Top 5s: 4 | Top 10s: 6
Par/Better Rounds: 20 | Cards in 60s: 10
Best Finish: 1, Racer Int.
Low 18: 65 (-5/-5/-7), Visit Knoxville Coll./Western Int./NCAA Bryan Reg.
Low 36: 137 (-3/-7), Visit Knoxville Coll./Western Int./NCAA Bryan Reg.
Low 54: 204 (-12), NCAA Bryan Reg.
Prior to Chattanooga
- Ranked as high as No. 33 on Junior Golf Scoreboard.
- Went on a summer heater before joining the program in 2025 qualifying for the U.S. Junior while posting top 10s at the Western Junior (3rd), North South Junior (3rd) and Georgia Amateur (T7).
- Runner-up at the Granny Junior Invitational along with two top 5s in 2024 on the AJGA Tour tying for fourth at the Will Lowery Junior and fifth at the Discover Puerto Rico Junior Championships.
- Top performer in 2023 on the Southeastern Golf Tour with three wins and seven top 10s in eight events.
- 2-time Georgia High School Champ (2024, 2025).
- Top 10 at the North & South Junior in 2024 (T7).