When your freshmen shoot a combined -15 and are both in the top ten after the first round of a very good tournament it is a solid day.
Sun Devil men’s golf had a solid day in Hawaii Thursday.
Freshman Wenyi Ding and his Sun Devil men’s golf teammates are off to a great start in Hawaii through the first 18 holes on Thursday at the Amer Ari Invitational, held at the Mauna Lani North Course. Wing shot a bogey free 9-under 63 in just his fourth collegiate round, as the 2022 US Junior Amateur champion joined the team after the 2023 fall semester and earned Pac-12 Golfer of the Week after one event. Classmate Connor Wiliams fired a 6-under 66 and also had nine birdies.
The second-place Sun Devils are three shots back of North Carolina, as ASU shot 23-under 265. Texas Tech is in third in the 20-team field.
LOWEST SUN DEVIL ROUNDS (9-UNDER OR BETTER/1993-94 TO PRESENT)
60/-10, Paul Casey, 1999 Pac-10 Championship (fourth round)
62/-10, Preston Summerhays, 2023 NCAA Las Vegas Regional (first round)
62/-10, Jeff Quinney, 1999 ASU Thunderbird Invitational (third round)
61/-9, Jon Rahm, 2013 NCAA Championship (first round)
62/-9, Jon Rahm, 2014 ASU Thunderbird Invitational (first round)
63/-9, Wenyi Ding, 2024 Amer Ari Invitational (first round)
63/-9, Blake Wagoner, 2021 Amer Ari Intercollegiate (first round)
63/-9, Chun An Yu, 2018 National Invitational (first round)
63/-9, Kendall Critchfield, 2004 ASU Thunderbird Invitational (first round)
63/-9, Max Rottluff, 2015 ASU Thunderbird Invitational (second round)
THE WAGR RANKINGS
Three Sun Devils are in the recent top-20 World Amateur Golf Rankings, led by Preston Summerhays (9), Wenyi Ding (13) and Josele Ballester (18). Ding is the most recent winner of the Pac-12 Player of thee Week.
SUN DEVIL TOP-100 WAGR RANKINGS (FEB. 1, 2024)
9 – Preston Summerhays
13 – Wenyi Ding
18 – Josele Ballester
61 – Michael Mjaaseth
OUR TOURNAMENT HISTORY HERE
The Sun Devils finished third as a team and Mason Andersen was third at the 2022 Amer Ari. The team carded a 268-273-281=822/-42 while Anderson fired 65-69-66=200/-16/T3. ASU has won the team title of the Amri Ari Invitational…
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