TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Redshirt junior Florida State Men’s golfer Cole Anderson is one of 37 student-athletes who were selected to the 2023 Ben Hogan Award Watch List on Friday, announced by the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation, the Friends of Golf (FOG) and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
The Camden, Maine, native has ascended tremendously over his last year of golf, producing a great fall season where he shot an average score of 69.08 in stroke-play tournaments. Anderson placed second in the Maui Jim Intercollegiate with an 11-under 195 to open the fall, and also tied for sixth (OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational), eighth (Folds of Honor Collegiate) and 13th (Jackson T. Stephens Cup) at FSU’s other fall tournaments.
Anderson’s aggregate three-round score of 195 at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate was the lowest in program history.
Anderson is also on the 2022 Fall Haskins Award Watch List, emerging as one of the nation’s better collegiate golfers. He is rated fourth in Golfstat’s national player rankings as well as seventh in Golfweek’s individual rankings.
He enters the spring season ranked 12th in FSU history with an all-time career average of 72.08. In his 26 career tournaments played for the Seminoles, Anderson has earned six Top 10 finishes.
Florida State begins its spring season with the Watersound Invitational at Shark’s Tooth Golf Club in Watersound, Fla., from Feb. 19-21.
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