Patrick Cantlay, Patrick Rodgers, Jordan Spieth named Hogan Award finalists
ORLANDO, Fla. - Golfweek and Baird
Private
Wealth
Management announced that a trio of
young
collegiate
stars have been named finalists for the
prestigious 2012
Hogan Award.
UCLA's Patrick Cantlay, Texas' Jordan
Spieth
and
Stanford's Patrick Rodgers will vie for the
award at the
annual banquet set for May 21 at 8 p.m.
EDT.
Golfweek will
broadcast the award show live on
Golfweek.com, complete
with player and coach interviews.
The 2012 class is the youngest in the
award's
11-year
history. Spieth and Rodgers are entering
the
final weeks of
their freshman campaign, and Cantlay is a
sophomore.
Before this year, only two freshmen
(Cantlay
and Oklahoma
State's Rickie Fowler, in 2008) had been
finalists.
Here are some quick nuggets about each
finalist:
Patrick Cantlay, sophomore,
UCLA
While Cantlay picked up no wins in the
2011-
12 collegiate
regular season, his low-amateur status at
the
Masters and
U.S. Open, as well as top-25 finishes in
four
PGA Tour
stops in the past year, earned a spot in
the
final three for
the second straight year. Cantlay is No. 9
in
the
Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings.
Jordan Spieth, freshman, Texas
Spieth took little time to get acclimated to
the
college
game, picking up three wins in the 2011-
12
season en
route to being named Big 12 Player of the
Year
and
Freshman of the Year. Spieth, the 2009
and
'11 U.S. Junior
champion, joins Tiger Woods as the only
two-
time winners.
Spieth is No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin
College
Rankings.
Patrick Rodgers, freshman,
Stanford
Rodgers is the first Cardinal player to
make the
cut as a
finalist for the Hogan Award. Rodgers won
two
events as a
freshman, coming after a summer in which
he
was a
standout for the U.S. Walker Cup team
and
won the Porter
Cup. Rodgers is No. 3 in the
Golfweek/Sagarins.
ABOUT THE
Ben Hogan Award
The Ben Hogan Award is given annually to honor the
best college golf player in the United States. Since
2005, the award winner is named at a ceremony prior
to the PGA Tour event at Colonial Country Club in Fort
Worth, Texas, and is invited to the following year's
tournament.
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