WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men’s golfer Herman Sekne has been named to the Ben Hogan Award watch list, given annually to the nation’s top golfer, the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation, the Friends of Golf (FOG) and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) announced.
The Ben Hogan Award presented by PNC Bank annually awards the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur and professional events over the previous 12 months. Three of the top 12 players in the Official World Golf Ranking—No. 3 Jon Rahm (2015, 2016), No. 5 Patrick Cantlay (2012) and No. 11 Viktor Hovland (2019) —are past recipients of the honor, while No. 8 Collin Morikawa (2018, 2019) was a two-time finalist.
Sekne is the first Purdue golfer since Lee Williamson in 2002 to be named to the watch list. The junior from Oslo, Norway, is off to an outstanding start in his third year at Purdue, leading the Boilermakers with a 70.67 stroke average. He has finished in the top 10 of all four tournaments he has played in this season and owns 10 career top-10 finishes in just 21 career events.
He opened the season with a ninth-place finish at the Inverness Intercollegiate, then added a sixth-place showing at the Marquette Intercollegiate. He finished second behind fellow watch-list member Bryce Lewis of Tennessee at the Purdue Fall Invite and finished the fall with a fourth-place finish at the Isleworth Collegiate.
Sekne enters the spring ranked No. 18 in the Golfstat individual rankings and No. 62 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR). He has led the Boilermakers to a No. 28 national ranking as a team. Sekne is looking to become Purdue’s first All-American since Williamson in 2002.
He is on pace set the school record for stroke average in a season and is the school’s current leader in career stroke average (72.05 in 63 career rounds).
Sekne and the Boilermakers will open the spring season at the Puerto Rico Classic on Feb. 12 to 14, in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
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