Division I Semifinalists Announced for Jack Nicklaus Award
5/2/2017 | by Golf Coaches Association of America
see also: Jack Nicklaus Award, Golf Coaches Association of America
Division I finalists for the award will be named May 25
In addition to receiving the Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award, the five recipients will compete in the Barbasol Shootout for an exemption into the PGA TOUR’s Barbasol Championship, held July 20-23, at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National in Opelika, Ala. The Barbasol Shootout will be held Saturday, June 3 at the storied Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio - the same club where Jack Nicklaus first learned the game of golf as a young boy.
Dawson Armstrong, Lipscomb Sam Burns, LSU Cameron Champ, Texas A&M Wyndham Clark, Oregon Sean Crocker, Southern California Cristobal Del Solar, Florida State Jared du Toit, Arizona State Doug Ghim, Texas Nick Hardy, Illinois Rico Hoey, Southern California Sam Horsfield, Florida Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt Patrick Martin, Vanderbilt Maverick McNealy, Stanford Dylan Meyer, Illinois Collin Morikawa, California Kyle Mueller, Michigan John Oda, UNLV Zachary Olsen, Oklahoma State Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M Doc Redman, Clemson Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt Greyson Sigg, Georgia Jimmy Stanger, Virginia Sahith Theegala, Pepperdine Braden Thornberry, Mississippi Alejandro Tosti, Florida Dylan Wu, Northwestern Norman Xiong, Oregon Will Zalatoris, Wake Forest
About the Nicklaus Award
The Jack Nicklaus Award recognizes the national men's college player of the year at the Division I, II, III, NAIA, and NJCAA levels. Nicklaus, a Big Ten and NCAA Champion at Ohio State, helped inspire and create the Jack Nicklaus Award in 1988.
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