Max Lyons

Height:
6-0
Weight:
null
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Phoenix, Ariz.
High School:
Sandra Day O'Connor

AWARD AND HONORS

PING All-Midwest Region
CSC Academic All-America First Team
BIG EAST Player of the Year (2023-24)
3x All-BIG EAST First Team (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)
All-BIG EAST Second Team (2021-22)
CSC Academic All-America Second Team (2023-24)
CSC Academic All-District (2023-24)
BIG EAST Sport Excellence Award winner for men's golf (2023-24)
Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)
BIG EAST All-Academic Team (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)

CAREER-BESTS

Single round score: 64; 8-under-par, BIG EAST Championship, first round (4/25/22)
54-hole event score: 205 (11-under-par), Puerto Rico Classic (Feb. 13-15, 2022)

Ended MU career third in program history in scoring average (72.07), average strokes to par (0.63) and par-or-better rounds (66). Fifth in rounds played (134).

2024-25 (Sr.): All-BIG EAST First Team ... Scoring average of 70.88 was fourth-best single season mark in program history and average strokes to par per round (-0.35) is fifth best ... Tied with Patrick Adler for the team lead with four top-five finishes ... Led the squad with six top-10 finishes and nine times inside the top 20 ... Ended senior season with 19 par-or-better rounds (tied for sixth all-time at MU) ... Second on the team with 115 birdies and a team-best 502 par-or-better holes in 34 total rounds ... Second round scoring average (70.17) led the team ... Tied for the team lead at the Purdue Fall Invitational at even par (75-71-70—216) on Sept. 22-23 at Kampen-Cosler Golf Course ... Finished in the top 10 individually at all five events in March and April ... Captured his second BIG EAST team title on April 26-28 at Callawassie Island in a tie for seventh overall with a 2-under 214 (77-67-70) ... Helped MU to a team title in the RedHawk Intercollegiate (Oct. 14-15) at Pittsburgh Field Club with a 7-under 206 (67-70-69) to tie for third individually ... Began the spring season with a 5-under 211 (71-74-66) in the Puerto Rico Classic at Grand Reserve Golf Club to tie for 22nd overall and place second on MU ... Began a three-event streak of top-three finishes with a 6-under 134 (65-69) in The Johnnie-O at Sea Island (March 17-18) on the Seaside Course to lead MU and place third overall ... Finished second overall and led MU to a team runner-up finish in the Bell Bank "Pay it Forward" Collegiate (March 24-25) at Wigwam Resort's Gold Course with an 8-under 208 (70-68-70) ... Helped MU to a team championship in the Irish Creek Collegiate (April 7-8) in The Club at Irish Creek with a 3-under 137 (69-68) to tie for third individually ... Began the spring with nine of his first 10 rounds under par and entered NCAA Regional action with 13 of 16 spring rounds under par ... Ended his college career at Atkins Golf Club in the NCAA Urbana Regional with a 5-over 218 (72-74-72) in a tie for 41st.

Summer 2024: Lyons won the 104th Suter Ward Group Wisconsin State Open Championship at Minocqua Country Club ... Shot a 16-under 272 (65-70-70-67) in the 72-hole event and matched runner-up George Kneiser's final round 67 to win by a pair of strokes ... Lyons is one of just 18 amateurs in the State Open's 104-year history to win the event, joining Marquette assistant coach Jordan Niebrugge who won the title at Blackwolf Run in Kohler.

2023-24 (Jr.): BIG EAST Conference Player of the Year ... All-BIG EAST First Team ... BIG EAST Sport Excellence Award winner for men's golf ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Second Team (MU's first-ever honoree for men's golf)... CSC Academic All-District ... BIG EAST All-Academic Team ... MU's seventh winner of the BIG EAST Men's Golfer of the Year award and led qualifying BIG EAST athletes with a 72.33 stroke scoring average, while posting 17 par-or-better rounds and five rounds in the 60s ... His scoring average was plus-0.70 strokes to par and he led MU at six of its 11 events ... Carded a season best 9-under 207 in MU's first event of the spring at the Puerto Rico Classic on Feb. 11-13, and his 17 par-or-better rounds is the seventh-highest single-season total in program history ... He is the fifth Marquette men's golfer to earn league player of the year honors, joining PING All-Americans Hunter Eichhorn (2017-18, 2020-21, 2021-22) and Mike Van Sickle (2008-09) in addition to Patrick Sanchez (2014-15) and Oliver Farrell (2018-19)

2022-23 (So.): An All-BIG EAST First Team Selection ... Recorded three top-10 finishes and was MU's top placer in three events ... Tied for seventh place in the season opener at the Badger Invitational with a 5-under par 139 (67-72) ... Shot a season-low 6-under 65 in the first round of the Valspar Collegiate in Palm City, Fla. on March 27 ... Was MU's top finisher in its win at the Redhawk Intercollegiate (Apr. 17-18), placing eighth individually with a 4-over-par 217 (71-72-74) ... Finished second on MU at the BIG EAST Championship and tied for 12th overall with a 4-over par 220 (72-73-75) ... MU's top finisher in the NCAA Auburn Regional, tying for 17th overall with a 2-over-par 218 (73-74-71) ... Posted a scoring average of 72.38 (+1.03), No. 2 on MU ... Led the team in rounds in the 60s with eight.

2021-22 (Fr.): Competed in 10 events as a true freshman and was MU's No. 1 finisher in two of them ... Also notched two No. 2 finishes among the Golden Eagles ... Set program freshman records in total strokes and strokes versus par at the Puerto Rico Classic at Grand Reserve Golf Club, carding an 11-under par (70-67-68--205) ... Opened his collegiate career with a 2-under 214 performance in the Marquette Intercollegiate (73-67-74) ... Tied for sixth place overall at the Wildcat Spring Invitational after carding a 4-over 144 (71-73) ... Recorded 12 birdies at the BIG EAST Championship, which tied for fourth-most ... Shot 8-under par in the first round of the BIG EAST Championship and went on to finish tied for 17th at 2-over 218 (64-78-76) ... Tallied an average round score of 72.72 on the season.

Prior to Marquette: Lyons is one of the highest-ranked recruits in program history, sitting at No. 14 among all senior boys golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings at the time of his signing of a National Letter of Intent ... Runner-up at the Arizona Division I State Championship in the fall of 2020 after shooting an 8-under 132 and earned JGAA Arizona Boys Player of the Year ... Led the country as a senior with five victories in nationally ranked tournaments in 2020 and compiled a scoring average of 65.72 per round in those events ... Earned three letters in golf at Sandra Day O'Connor High School and was a two-time team captain ... OC Golfer of the Year as a junior and senior ... First team all-district as a junior and first team all-section as a senior ... Led high school team to Deer Valley district titles every season ... Named Honored as a Scholastic All-American by the AJGA in 2020 and ranked first in his high school class of nearly 700 students.

Personal: Son of John and Erin Lyons and has an older sister, Grace, who played softball at the University of Oklahoma ... Father played ice hockey at the United States Air Force Academy.

Recruit Rankings (as of Nov. 9, 2020):

Golfweek/Sagarin Ranking: 29 (No. 14 in Class of 2021)
Junior Golf Scoreboard: 55 (No. 23 in Class of 2021)

Career Low Round: 61 (-11) – 2020 Chandler City Junior Championship first round

High School Arizona State Championship Finishes:

2020 (Sr.): T-2nd, -8 (132—64-68)
2019 (Jr.): T-20, +5 (151—73-78)
2018 (So.): T-35, +9 (152—73-79)

Highlights/Notes Prior to Marquette:

Ranked first in his class of 680 students at Sandra Day O'Connor High School
AJGA Scholastic All-American (2020)
JGAA Arizona Boys Player of the Year (2020)
Holds high school nine-hole scoring average record (3.267-under par) and nine-hole match scoring record (6-under, 30)
Two-time team captain
Deer Valley District champions all four years (2017-20)
2020 Arizona Division I State Championship Runner-Up (-8 – 64-68)
2020 Dobson Invitational Champion (-13 – 66-65)
2020 Deer Valley Invitational Champion (-10 – 67-66)
2020 AJGA National Resource Partners Bluegrass Junior Champion (-10 – 67-65-68)
2020 JGAA Thunderbird Junior Classic Champion (-9 – 70-63)
2020 JGAA PING Individual Champion (-10 – 67-65)
2020 Scottsdale Junior Champion (-11 – 67-64)
2020 JGAA Chandler City Junior Champion (-17 – 61-66)

Why Lyons chose Marquette:

"Coach Bailey places value in the character of a team and I know that everyone on the team is working to win a national championship. My goal has been to compete to win a national championship and to turn professional, and I know that Marquette will give me both of those opportunities. The facilities are going to allow me to take my game to the next level and practice as much as I want. Milwaukee is also an amazing city and I love being next to Lake Michigan and downtown Milwaukee."

Season	Events	Rounds	Avg.	vs. Par	Low Rd. (54 Hole)	60's	Par or better
2021-22	11	32	72.72	+1.22	64 (205)	8	14
2022-23	12	35	72.40	+1.00	65 (211)	8	16
2023-24	11	33	72.33	+0.70	67 (207)	5	15
2024-25	12	34	70.88	-0.35	65 (206)	11	19
Career	46	134	72.07	+0.63	64 (205)	32	64