Wenyi Ding Earns First-Team All-America Honors

Sun Devil freshman Wenyi Ding — who earned both Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year — has earned first-team PING All-America honors as announced by the GCAA in partnership with Golf Channel. Ding and Auburn’s Jackson Koivun were the only freshman on the 11-man team, and he is just the fifth Sun Devil to earn first-team All-America in the past 17 seasons. He joins Preston Summerhays (2023), Chun An Yu (2019), Jon Rahm (2016 and 2015) and Max Rotluff (2015). He is the first Sun Devil freshman to earn first-team honors since Alejandro Canizares in 2003.

WHAT A YEAR

Ding was the first Sun Devil to win both Pac-12 Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year and finished the year ranked third by Scoreboard/Clippd with a 69.56 stroke average. He notched six top-10 and four top-five finishes in eight tournaments, including a ridiculous victory at the Amer Ari Invitational in just his second event. He posted a 27-under 189 (63-64-62), the first collegiate golfer to break 190, and helped ASU to a trio of tournament titles this spring, including its first Pac-12 Championship  since 2008. He posted 12 rounds in the 60s and 16 of his 25 rounds were at par or better.

MEN’S GOLF PING FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS

Luke Clanton, Florida State

Wenyi Ding, Arizona State

Mats Ege, East Tennessee State

Nick Gabrelcik, North Florida

Ben James, Virginia

Jackson Koivun, Auburn

Christo Lamprecht, Georgia Tech

Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt

Hiroshi Tai, Georgia Tech

Michael Thorbjornsen, Stanford

Brendan Valdes, Auburn

FRESHMAN WENYI DING 2023-24 ROUND-BY-ROUND

National Invitational (Jan. 29-30, 2024/Omni National Golf Club) 65-67-67=199/-17/2

Amer Ari Invitational (Feb. 8-10, 2024/Mauna Lani North Course) 63-64-62=189/-27/1

Southern Highlands Collegiate (Feb. 25-27, 2024/Southern Highlands Club) 75-76-72=223/+7/T46

Cabo Collegiate Invitational (Mar. 3-5, 2024/Twin Dolphin Golf Club) 70-72-68=210/-3/T10

Valspar Collegiate Invitational (Mar. 25-26, 2024/Floridian Golf Club) 72-65-68=205/-8/4

Thunderbird Collegiate (Apr. 12-13, 2024/Papago Golf Course) 69-67-68=204/-9/T3

2024 Pac-12 Men’s Golf Championships (Apr. 26-28, 2024/Desert Forest Golf Club) 70-71-70-77=288/+4/T6 of 72

2024 NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional (May 13-15, 2024/The Farms Golf Club) 71-75-75=221/+11/T42 of 72

8 TOURNAMENT/25 ROUNDS/69.56 STROKE AVERAGE/1,739 TOTAL STROKES

WENYI DING BEST ROUNDS OF 2023-24

62/-10 at Amer Ari Invitational Third Round/Feb. 10, 2024

63/-9…