ASU junior Jon Rahm won the Ben Hogan Award, given to the best collegiate golfer, as announced in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday.
Rahm becomes the first Sun Devil to ever win the award, which began in 1990. Past winners include Rickie Fowler, who won at The Players Championships recently.
Rahm's accomplishments this season have been nothing short of extraordinary, earning four tournament victories and willing his team to advance in a competitive San Diego regional. He has seven tournament victories in his college career, which ranks third in Sun Devil history.
Rahm, along with Stanford's Maverick McNealy, another finalist, is on pace to break college golf's single-season scoring record in 2014-15 with just the NCAA Championships remaining.
In addition to Rahm's success at the college level, he finished tied for fifth at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and is the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world. He said after the Phoenix Open that he would return for a senior season.
List of past winners:
2014 – Patrick Rodgers, Stanford
2013 – Chris Williams, Washington
2012 – Patrick Cantlay, UCLA
2011 – Peter Uihlein, Oklahoma State
2010 – Nick Taylor, Washington
2009 – Kyle Stanley, Clemson
2008 – Rickie Fowler, Oklahoma State
2007 – Chris Kirk, Georgia
2006 – Matt Every, Florida
2005 – Ryan Moore, UNLV
2004 – Bill Haas, Wake Forest
2003 – Ricky Barnes, Arizona & Hunter Mahan, Oklahoma State
2002 – D.J. Trahan, Clemson
2001 – Wil Collins, New Mexico
2000 – Chris James, Oklahoma
1999 – Steve Friesen, Nebraska
1998 – Jamie Broce, Ball State
1997 – Jeff Fahrenbruch, Texas
1996 – Mark Wilson, North Carolina
1995 – Trip Kuehne, Oklahoma State
1994 – William Blackmon, Auburn
1993 – Marten Olander, Alabama
1992 – Jon Lindquist, Gustavus Adolphus College
1991 – Brian Bridges, Kent State
1990 – Kevin Wentworth, Oklahoma State
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