Mathers named finalist for Jack Nicklaus Award

NORMAN, Okla. – Huntingdon golfer Drew Mathers was announced as one of the five finalists for the 2020 Division III Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award.

Mathers was named along with St. Thomas' Emmet Herb, Carnegie Mellon's Jason Li, Southwestern's Cade Osgood and Illinois Wesleyan's Rob Wuethrich. This is the second straight season Mathers has been named a finalist for the award.

The winner will be announced during the Memorial Tournament in July.

Mathers, a two-time first-team All-American, was ranked No. 1 in the Division III Golfstat rankings for much of the season and was the only Division III golfer named to the initial Ben Hogan Award watch list. During the shortened season, he averaged 69.29 per round in 17 rounds and was on pace to break the program's NCAA-era record of 71.18 (in 28 rounds) that he set as a junior.

In his 17 rounds this season, he turned in 13 rounds of par or better, including eight rounds in the 60s. Four of those rounds ranked in the top-six for Huntingdon during the NCAA era. After setting the program's NCAA-era record for 72 holes as a junior, as a senior he twice tied the program's NCAA-era single-round record of 64 and set the program's NCAA-era record for 36 holes and 54 holes.

Huntingdon's NCAA-era career leader in wins (six), he placed in the top-three in 10 of his final 12 tournaments (five wins, four second-place finishes and one third place finish).