Jon Rahm named 2015 Ben Hogan Award recipient
2015 Ben Hogan Award winner Jon Rahm
FORT WORTH, Texas — Spaniard Jon Rahm,
of ASU
was announced as the 2015 Ben Hogan
Award winner
at a press conference held at Colonial Country
Club
in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday. The award
has been
given annually since 1990 to the the
outstanding
male amateur and collegiate golfer of the
year.
With the title, Rahm receives an invitation
to
next year's Crowne Plaza Invtiational at
Colonial
Country Club in the 2016 PGA Tour season.
Last
year's winner, former Stanford star Patrick
Rodgers,
is in the field in this week's event, one week
after
tying for second at the Wells Fargo
Championship
while playing on a sponsor's exemption.
Rahm has been on a roll this season, and
indeed
throughout his college and amateur career. A
highlight of 2015 was his T5 finish on the PGA
Tour
at the Phoenix Open. And as recently as
Saturday, he
paced his ASU team to a second place finish
at the
NCAA
Southwest Regional, where he was the
low
individual player at 10-under.
Rahm cited the late Severiano Ballesteros
as his
idol during an interview before the award was
announced. And a portion of his acceptance
speech
was given in Spanish, so his parents at home
could
understand. Clearly, Rahm is a young man
with a
bright future, and if his acceptance speech
was any
indication of his ability to handle the limelight,
fans
are really going to connect with him.
Former winners currently on the PGA
Tour
include Hunter Mahan (2003), Ricky Barnes
(2003),
Bill Haas (2004), Ryan Moore (2005), Matt
Every
(2006), Chris Kirk (2007), Rickie Fowler
(2008), and
Kyle Stanley (2009).
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Jon Rahm, winner of
the
NCAA SW Regional on May 16, tees off in the
final
round at The Farms Golf Club in San
Diego
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ABOUT THE
Ben Hogan Award
The Ben Hogan Award is given annually to honor the
best college golf player in the United States. Since
2005, the award winner is named at a ceremony prior
to the PGA Tour event at Colonial Country Club in Fort
Worth, Texas, and is invited to the following year's
tournament.
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