Haskins Award Watch List: Justin Suh on Top
3/22/2018 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff
see also: Fred Haskins Award, Haskins Foundation / ANNIKA Award
The junior from USC, with four wins, has the inside track to winning the award that honors the nation's top college golfer
Braden Thornberry of Ole Miss, who won the NCAA Championship and is currently #1 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Amateur Ranking, was last year's Haskins Award winner. Other winners of the award include Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Suh, a junior from USC, has had a breakout year for the Trojans, winning four times and rising to #2 in the GW/AGC World Ranking, behind only Thornberry.
Victor Hovland, a sophomore at #1 ranked Oklahoma State, has risen to #2 on the Haskins Watch List, on the strength of his win at this week's Valspar Collegiate.
Collin Morikawa, a junior at Cal, sits at #3. Morikawa made the cut in last week's PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational, and has two wins for the Bears this season.
1. Justin Suh, USC
2. Viktor Hovland, Oklahoma State
3. Collin Morikawa, Cal
4. Fred Nilehn, Texas Tech
5. Davis Riley, Alabama
6. Matt Wolff, Oklahoma State
7. Brad Dalke, Oklahoma
8. Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt
9. Shintaro Ban, UNLV
10. Kyle Mueller, Michigan
11. Garrett May, Baylor
12. Lee Hodges, Alabama
13. Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M
14. Doug Ghim, Texas
15. Braden Thornberry, Ole Miss
16. Stephen Franken, N.C. State
17. Norman Xiong, Oregon
18. Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern
19. Hayden Buckley, Missouri
20. John Pak, Florida State
Voting for the Haskins Award will open at the conclusion of the NCAA Regionals and will end at the conclusion of the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, OK.
About the Haskins Award
Since 1971, the Haskins Award honors the most outstanding male college golfer each year. It is named in memory of Fred Haskins, former golf teaching professional at the Country Club of Columbus (Georgia) who devoted his life to nurturing and mentorin...
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