Eichhorn in PGA TOUR University Top-15 Ranking
7/22/2020 10:34:00 AM | Men's Golf
Players in the top five at season’s end receive a Korn Ferry membership for 2021
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – Marquette University All-American Hunter Eichhorn was one of 15 men's golfers unveiled on the PGA TOUR University's inaugural top-15 Ranking
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The list was announced as part of a two-day rollout on GOLF Channel's Golf Central and Morning Drive shows.
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Eichhorn, the world's 106th ranked amateur, has been active this summer competing at the North and South Amateur Championship (June 27-July 4), Southern Championship (July 15-18) and Sunnehanna Amateur (July 21-24). He will also take part in the Western Amateur (July 27-Aug. 1) and U.S. Amateur on Aug. 10-16 at Bandon Dunes, where Marquette assistant coach and former world's No. 1 amateur Chris Williams will be on his bag.
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The top five finishers from the final Official PGA TOUR University Ranking List will receive Korn Ferry Tour membership and will be exempt into all open, full-field events beginning the week following the conclusion of the NCAA Division I Men's National Championship through the conclusion of the Korn Ferry Tour regular season. The top five finishers will also be exempt into the Final Stage of that year's Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament.
Finishers Nos. 6-15 will secure membership on one of the International Tours for the current season and a spot in the Second Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (if necessary). At that point, these players will have their choice of which International Tour their exempt status applies to.
The eligibility for each respective Tour will begin the week following the conclusion of the NCAA Men's Division I Golf Championship. The 2021 NCAA Men's Championship is scheduled to be held at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, from May 28 – June 2. Players eligible for the PGA TOUR University Ranking List will be NCAA Division I golfers who complete a minimum of four years in college.
The PGA TOUR partnered with the World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®), which is administered by The R&A and the USGA, to create the PGA TOUR University Ranking List. The WAGR system ranks the top amateurs on the basis of their average performance in counting events on a rolling cycle over the previous 104 weeks. The list will be filtered to include those players and results meeting the PGA TOUR University eligibility criteria. Events which will count towards the Official PGA TOUR University Ranking List include NCAA Division I Men's Golf events and official PGA TOUR events, including the Masters, U.S. Open and The Open Championship.
Eichhorn earned NCAA Division I PING All-America recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America as a junior in addition PING All-Midwest Region accolades. He was also a member of the watch list for the Fred Haskins Award, honoring the year's outstanding college golfer.
The Carney, Michigan native notched his third straight season with a sub-72 scoring average in 2019-20, finishing the year at a career-best 70.81 (-0.76 versus par) with 14 rounds at par or lower out of 21. He earned a pair of tournament victories as a junior at the Windon Memorial Classic on Sept. 16-17 and at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills on Oct. 6-8.
Eichhorn enters his senior year in 2020-21 holding Marquette's lowest career scoring average (71.50), better than 2009 Byron Nelson Award winner Mike Van Sickle's 71.69 strokes. Van Sickle is the only other golfer in program history to earn PING All-America honors, having done so the final three years of his MU career, including first team accolades as a senior in 2008-09.
Debuting at No. 1 in the Ranking was Florida State senior John Pak, who notched five collegiate victories since the start of the spring 2019 season and enters the upcoming 2020-21 season as one of the college game's top talents. Â
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Arizona State's Chun An "Kevin" Yu debuted at No. 2 in the Ranking, followed by Austin Eckroat (Oklahoma State), Davis Thompson (Georgia) and Sandy Scott (Texas Tech).
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Nos. 6 through 15 on the Ranking include, in order: Garett Reband (Oklahoma), McClure Meissner (Southern Methodist), Trevor Werbylo (Arizona), John Augenstein (Vanderbilt), Jovan Rebula (Auburn), Quade Cummins (Oklahoma), Cooper Dossey (Baylor), Hunter Eichhorn (Marquette), Tim Widing (San Francisco) and Tripp Kinney (Iowa State). For the full PGA TOUR University Ranking, please click here.
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"We have spent a lot of time developing PGA TOUR University alongside golf's governing bodies, and to see our inaugural Ranking come to fruition is truly exciting," said the PGA TOUR's Brendan von Doehren. "The goal all along has been to ease the transition from collegiate golf into the pro ranks for the top four-year players, and this program allows us to achieve that. College golf creates a tremendous amount of tournament drama for both teams and individuals, and it will be fun to watch the game's rising stars compete to be part of our Class of 2021 next June."
For more information on PGA TOUR University, including a Frequently Asked Questions page, please visit PGATOUR.com/University.
About PGA TOUR University
PGA TOUR University is a program designed to strengthen and elevate the path to the PGA TOUR through the Korn Ferry Tour, Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Series – China. This program will reward elite collegiate play with varying levels of playing access to Tours operated under the PGA TOUR umbrella, while upholding the principles and virtues of collegiate athletics.
Keep up with the Marquette men's golf program through social media by following on Twitter (@MarquetteMGolf) and Instagram (@MarquetteMGolf) and 'liking' on Facebook (/MarquetteMGolf).
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The list was announced as part of a two-day rollout on GOLF Channel's Golf Central and Morning Drive shows.
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Eichhorn, the world's 106th ranked amateur, has been active this summer competing at the North and South Amateur Championship (June 27-July 4), Southern Championship (July 15-18) and Sunnehanna Amateur (July 21-24). He will also take part in the Western Amateur (July 27-Aug. 1) and U.S. Amateur on Aug. 10-16 at Bandon Dunes, where Marquette assistant coach and former world's No. 1 amateur Chris Williams will be on his bag.
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The top five finishers from the final Official PGA TOUR University Ranking List will receive Korn Ferry Tour membership and will be exempt into all open, full-field events beginning the week following the conclusion of the NCAA Division I Men's National Championship through the conclusion of the Korn Ferry Tour regular season. The top five finishers will also be exempt into the Final Stage of that year's Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament.
Finishers Nos. 6-15 will secure membership on one of the International Tours for the current season and a spot in the Second Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (if necessary). At that point, these players will have their choice of which International Tour their exempt status applies to.
The eligibility for each respective Tour will begin the week following the conclusion of the NCAA Men's Division I Golf Championship. The 2021 NCAA Men's Championship is scheduled to be held at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, from May 28 – June 2. Players eligible for the PGA TOUR University Ranking List will be NCAA Division I golfers who complete a minimum of four years in college.
The PGA TOUR partnered with the World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®), which is administered by The R&A and the USGA, to create the PGA TOUR University Ranking List. The WAGR system ranks the top amateurs on the basis of their average performance in counting events on a rolling cycle over the previous 104 weeks. The list will be filtered to include those players and results meeting the PGA TOUR University eligibility criteria. Events which will count towards the Official PGA TOUR University Ranking List include NCAA Division I Men's Golf events and official PGA TOUR events, including the Masters, U.S. Open and The Open Championship.
Eichhorn earned NCAA Division I PING All-America recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America as a junior in addition PING All-Midwest Region accolades. He was also a member of the watch list for the Fred Haskins Award, honoring the year's outstanding college golfer.
The Carney, Michigan native notched his third straight season with a sub-72 scoring average in 2019-20, finishing the year at a career-best 70.81 (-0.76 versus par) with 14 rounds at par or lower out of 21. He earned a pair of tournament victories as a junior at the Windon Memorial Classic on Sept. 16-17 and at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills on Oct. 6-8.
Eichhorn enters his senior year in 2020-21 holding Marquette's lowest career scoring average (71.50), better than 2009 Byron Nelson Award winner Mike Van Sickle's 71.69 strokes. Van Sickle is the only other golfer in program history to earn PING All-America honors, having done so the final three years of his MU career, including first team accolades as a senior in 2008-09.
Debuting at No. 1 in the Ranking was Florida State senior John Pak, who notched five collegiate victories since the start of the spring 2019 season and enters the upcoming 2020-21 season as one of the college game's top talents. Â
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Arizona State's Chun An "Kevin" Yu debuted at No. 2 in the Ranking, followed by Austin Eckroat (Oklahoma State), Davis Thompson (Georgia) and Sandy Scott (Texas Tech).
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Nos. 6 through 15 on the Ranking include, in order: Garett Reband (Oklahoma), McClure Meissner (Southern Methodist), Trevor Werbylo (Arizona), John Augenstein (Vanderbilt), Jovan Rebula (Auburn), Quade Cummins (Oklahoma), Cooper Dossey (Baylor), Hunter Eichhorn (Marquette), Tim Widing (San Francisco) and Tripp Kinney (Iowa State). For the full PGA TOUR University Ranking, please click here.
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"We have spent a lot of time developing PGA TOUR University alongside golf's governing bodies, and to see our inaugural Ranking come to fruition is truly exciting," said the PGA TOUR's Brendan von Doehren. "The goal all along has been to ease the transition from collegiate golf into the pro ranks for the top four-year players, and this program allows us to achieve that. College golf creates a tremendous amount of tournament drama for both teams and individuals, and it will be fun to watch the game's rising stars compete to be part of our Class of 2021 next June."
For more information on PGA TOUR University, including a Frequently Asked Questions page, please visit PGATOUR.com/University.
About PGA TOUR University
PGA TOUR University is a program designed to strengthen and elevate the path to the PGA TOUR through the Korn Ferry Tour, Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Series – China. This program will reward elite collegiate play with varying levels of playing access to Tours operated under the PGA TOUR umbrella, while upholding the principles and virtues of collegiate athletics.
Keep up with the Marquette men's golf program through social media by following on Twitter (@MarquetteMGolf) and Instagram (@MarquetteMGolf) and 'liking' on Facebook (/MarquetteMGolf).
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