Thomson Earns All-Big Ten First Team Selection
4/30/2024 3:30:00 PM | Men's Golf
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- University of Michigan men's golf junior Hunter Thomson was named to the All-Big Ten first team Tuesday (April 30), becoming the first Wolverine in six years to receive the conference accolade.
Overall, Thomson -- who received his first Big Ten postseason award -- becomes the 22nd Wolverine to garner All-Big Ten honors and the 24th overall first-team citation by a Wolverine. Thomson is the first Michigan golfer to be named to the first team since 2018 when former U-M great Kyle Mueller earned a spot for the third straight season.
Thomson is having a record-breaking season leading U-M with a 70.39 scoring average -- a program-record pace. No Wolverine has finished a season with a sub-70 scoring average. He has recorded 26 of his 36 rounds at or below par with a team-best 21 sub-par tallies and 16 sub-70 rounds. Opening the spring season, Thomson fired a career-low 64 (-8) to tie U-M's second-lowest single-round score record.
He led U-M in nine of his 12 events this season and won his first collegiate event at the Palmas del Mar Collegiate (Feb. 11-13) with a career-low 201 (68-69-64) 54-hole total. He added a pair of runner-up finishes at the Island Resort Intercollegiate (Sept. 3-4) and the Everett Buick GMC Classic (Oct. 16-17), helping to six top-five individual finishes on the season. Thomson posted a second straight top-10 finish at the Big Ten Championships (April 26-28), tying for eighth.
With seven sub-par 54-hole totals, Thomson averages 211.17 per event, nearly five shots under par. His 201 career-best at the Palmas del Mar helped him tie U-M's second-lowest single-round total in program history, trailing only Mueller's U-M record 198 (69-65-65, -15) at the 2015 Alister MacKenzie Invitational.
Thomson owns two of the top three best individual 54-hole totals in U-M history -- the 201 total and a 202 (71-65-66, -14) at the 2023 Island Resort Intercollegiate (Sept. 3-4) in the season-opening event. Overall, Thomson has 16 sub-par 54-hole totals in 35 career events.
Thomson and the Wolverines shift their focus to either a team or individual bid for an upcoming NCAA Regional selection. The 81-team field and 45 individuals will be announced on Wednesday (May 1) during the live selection show on the Golf Channel at 2 p.m.Â
2024 Big Ten Postseason Awards
Big Ten Golfer of the Year: Herman Sekne, Purdue
Big Ten Freshman of the Year: MAX HERENDEEN, Illinois
Big Ten Coach of the Year: DAVID INGLIS, Northwestern
All-Big Ten First Team
JACKSON BUCHANAN, Illinois
MAX HERENDEEN, Illinois
Hunter Thomson, Michigan
DANIEL SVÄRD, Northwestern
Ethan Tseng, Northwestern
NEAL SHIPLEY, Ohio State
HERMAN SEKNE, Purdue
CAMERON HUSS, Wisconsin
All-Big Ten Second Team
Drew Salyers, Indiana
Ryan Voois, Illinois
Ashton McCulloch, Michigan State
Ben Warian, Minnesota
Cameron Adam, Northwestern
James Imai, Northwestern
Maxwell Moldovan, Ohio State
Nels Surtani, Purdue
Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honorees: Timmy Crawford (Illinois), Noah Gillard (Indiana), Ian Meyer (Iowa), Armand Papaziani (Maryland), Jack O'Donnell (Michigan), Brad Smithson (Michigan State), Jacob Pedersen (Minnesota), Hamish Murray (Nebraska), James Imai (Northwestern), Jacob Tarkany (Ohio State), Jake Griffin (Penn State), Peyton Snoeberger (Purdue), Xavier Marcoux (Rutgers) and Blake Wisdom (Wisconsin)
Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS
• Big Ten Release
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