CAREER OVERVIEW | Career Statistics At UTA | Career Statistics At UNT
Low Round: 67, 2x (Last: Second Round, DBU Patriot Classic – 4/4/22)
Best Finish: T-3 (DBU Patriot Classic – 4/4-5/22)
Best 54-Hole Score: 206 (DBU Patriot Classic – 4/4-5/22)
Through his first two seasons with UTA, his 73.73 scoring average over 49 rounds ranks as the 10th best in program history (record: Zack Fischer’s 73.10 from 2008-11) … six career eagles are tied for the 15th most (record: 14 by Kyle Cox (2019-23) and Cash Wilkerson (2011-15)) ... transferred to UTA from North Texas following his sophomore season in 2020-21.
AWARDS
2022-23 Academic All-WAC
2021-22 Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List
AS A REDSHIRT SENIOR (2023-24)
Held a scoring average of 73.8 over 30 rounds … also matched a career high for rounds in the 60s (four) and rounded up 8 par-or-better rounds … 24 of his rounds were accounted for in the team score … season-best 54-hole performance with a 7-under 209 (70-67-72) at the Grier Jones Shocker Invitational (Oct. 9-10) … career-low round of 66 during the second round of the Everett Buick GMC Classic.
AS A REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2022-23) | Tournament-By-Tournament Results
Career-best scoring average of 73.19 – which led the team – over 32 rounds … also established career highs for rounds in the 60s (four) and par-or-better rounds (13) … all 32 of his rounds were accounted for in the team score, which tied for the 11th most in single-season program history … four top-20 finishes … season-best 54-hole performance with a 4-under 212 (74-68-70) at the WAC Championship (Apr. 28-30) … season-low rounds of 68 on three different occasions … ranked 2nd on the team in birdies with 94 … led the team in par-3 scoring average (3.1) to represent the 9th best in single-season program history … par-5 scoring average of 4.74 … rolled in three eagles.
AS A REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2021-22) | Tournament-By-Tournament Results
Posted a 74.76 scoring average over 17 rounds … five par-or-better performances … two rounds in the 60s, led by a career-low-tying 67 in the 2nd round at Dallas Baptist’s Patriot Classic (Apr. 4) … the other was a 68 that same day in the 1st round … competing as an individual at that DBU Patriot Classic, registered a 206 (-10) total (68-67-71) which was tied for the 10th-best 54-hole total in program history … career-best T-3 finish at the DBU Patriot Classic … 4.74 par-5 scoring average … missed several weeks in the spring with an ankle injury … competed in six tournaments, five as part of the team lineup … score was used in the team total in 10 of 14 opportunities … rolled in 49 birdies and carded three eagles.
AS A SOPHOMORE AT NORTH TEXAS (2020-21)
Did not compete in any tournaments.
AS A FRESHMAN AT NORTH TEXAS (2019-20) | Tournament-By-Tournament Results
Participated in four tournaments in the COVID-shortened campaign ... posted a scoring average of 76.2 over those 12 rounds, but carded a career- and season-low 67 in the final round of the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic in Hawaii in November.
HIGH SCHOOL
Won the 2019 South Island U-19 Championship and the 2018 North Island U-19 Championship .... claimed the 2018 Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, and emerged victorious in both the Faldo Series New Zealand Championship and the Canterbury Match Play Championship in 2016 and 2017 ... represented New Zealand in the Toyota Junior World Cup ... World Amateur Golf Ranking has been as high as No. 705.
PERSONAL
Born on Aug. 20, 2000 ... son of Yoshikatsu and Makiko ... has two younger brothers: Hayato and Yuki ... finance major ... graduated from Burnside High School on the East Coast of the South Island – one of the two main islands (North Island) which comprise New Zealand.
