North Carolina State golfer Matt Hill, the defending NCAA champion, joins four players from Oklahoma State among 25 golfers on the watch list for the 2010 Ben Hogan Award.
The honor, presented annually in Fort Worth, is given to the nation’s top college golfer in conjunction with tournament week activities at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. Award organizers released the watch list today, which includes six golfers from schools in Texas or within the Big 12.
Those six include Texas Tech’s Oscar Floren, SMU’s Kelly Kraft and the foursome from OSU: Morgan Hoffman, Kevin Tway, Peter Uihlein and Trent Whitekiller. Hoffman was a first-team All-American in 2009. Tway is the son of Champions Tour participant Bob Tway.
The list of semifinalists will be announced April 14, with the three finalists selected May 11. The winner will be announced in a live presentation on May 24 at Colonial.
Below is an alphabetical listing of the players on the 2010 Hogan Award watch list:
Knut Borsheim, Arizona State
Bud Cauley, Alabama
David Chung, Stanford
Derek Ernst, UNLV
Oscar Floren, Texas Tech
Dustin Garza, Wichita State
Brendan Gielow, Wake Forest
John Hahn, Kent State
Hunter Hamrick, Alabama
Russell Henley, Georgia
Matt Hill, NC State
Morgan Hoffmann, Oklahoma State
Sihwan Kim, Stanford
Kelly Kraft, SMU
Scott Langley, Illinois
Seath Lauer, Florida State
Corey Nagy, Charlotte
John Peterson, LSU
Jonathan Randolph, Mississippi
Nick Taylor, Washington
Kevin Tway, Oklahoma State
Peter Uihlein, Oklahoma State
Diego Velasquez, Oregon State
Trent Whitekiller, Oklahoma State
Steve Ziegler, Stanford
_ Jimmy Burch
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