Yeom Named to PING All-Region Team
5/29/2018 1:45:00 PM | Men's Golf
SUGAR GROVE, ILL. – Junior Chris Yeom (Flushing, N.Y.) was named to the Division I PING Men's Golf All-Northeast Region Team as announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
Golfers are selected across six regions - Northeast, East, Southeast, Midwest, Central and West - for 2018. Go earns the impressive distinction for a fourth straight year.
A year after losing Lloyd Jefferson Go, one of the program's all-time greats, the Seton Hall men's golf team didn't miss a step because of the maturation and emergence of Chris Yeom. Named BIG EAST Men's Golfer of the Week three times this year, he shaved more than two full strokes off his scoring average from a year ago, and finished the year leading the BIG EAST Conference with a 71.66 average, which edged Go's program record for a junior by just .01.
Named to the All-BIG EAST First Team, Yeom finished a tournament under par five times in 2017-18 after doing it just one in his two years prior. Yeom had eight top-10 finishes and four top-5 finishes this year and 10 of his 17 rounds this spring were under par. In his final tournament of the year, he was named to the All-Tournament Team and tied for second at the BIG EAST Championship, shooting even-par at Callawassie Island.
Yeom's crowning moment of the year was a historic 13-under-par, 66-69-68-203 at the Loyola Invitational. His 203 broke Go's par-72, three-round record score of 205 set just last spring at the same event. Furthermore, Yeom's 13-under-par score tied the Pirate mark for the most strokes under for any par in a single tournament.
Golfers are selected across six regions - Northeast, East, Southeast, Midwest, Central and West - for 2018. Go earns the impressive distinction for a fourth straight year.
A year after losing Lloyd Jefferson Go, one of the program's all-time greats, the Seton Hall men's golf team didn't miss a step because of the maturation and emergence of Chris Yeom. Named BIG EAST Men's Golfer of the Week three times this year, he shaved more than two full strokes off his scoring average from a year ago, and finished the year leading the BIG EAST Conference with a 71.66 average, which edged Go's program record for a junior by just .01.
Named to the All-BIG EAST First Team, Yeom finished a tournament under par five times in 2017-18 after doing it just one in his two years prior. Yeom had eight top-10 finishes and four top-5 finishes this year and 10 of his 17 rounds this spring were under par. In his final tournament of the year, he was named to the All-Tournament Team and tied for second at the BIG EAST Championship, shooting even-par at Callawassie Island.
Yeom's crowning moment of the year was a historic 13-under-par, 66-69-68-203 at the Loyola Invitational. His 203 broke Go's par-72, three-round record score of 205 set just last spring at the same event. Furthermore, Yeom's 13-under-par score tied the Pirate mark for the most strokes under for any par in a single tournament.
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