Big Ten Announces 2024-25 Men’s Golf Preseason Honors

ROSEMONT, lll. – The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday preseason honors for 49 student-athletes who were included on the Big Ten Men’s Golfers to Watch List.

The Watch List is headlined by nine student-athletes who earned All-Big Ten distinction last year, including reigning Golfer of the Year, Jackson Buchanan (Illinois), and 2024 Freshman of the Year, Max Herendeen (Illinois). It also includes six golfers who finished inside the Top-10 at the 2024 Big Ten Men’s Golf Championships, led by medalist Daniel Svärd (Northwestern), and 19 who received Academic All-Big Ten honors last season.

The 2024-25 golf season tees off this week for the expanded Big Ten, as the conference welcomed Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington on August 2. Four Big Ten squads were ranked in the preseason Bushnell/Golfweek DI Coaches Poll (No. 9 Illinois, No. 18 Washington, No. 22 Ohio State, No. 25 UCLA).

This spring, the Big Ten Men’s Golf Championships (April 18-20) will unfold at Baltimore Country Club in Maryland, while the 2025 NCAA Golf Championships will be hosted for a second consecutive year at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.

SCHOOL	NAME	CLASS
Illinois	Jackson Buchanan	Senior
Illinois	Max Herendeen	Sophomore
Illinois	Ryan Voois	Junior
Indiana	Clay Merchent	Junior
Indiana	Cole Starnes	Sophomore
Indiana	Nick Piesen	Sophomore
Iowa	Noah Kent	Sophomore
Iowa	Max Tjoa	Sophomore
Iowa	Josh Lundmark	Graduate
Maryland	Florian Huerlimann	Senior
Maryland	Yang Kuang	Sophomore
Maryland	Emil Riegger	Sophomore
Michigan	Hunter Thomson	Senior
Michigan	Ben Hoagland	Graduate
Michigan	Yuqi Lu	Senior
Michigan State	Ashton McCulloch	Senior
Michigan State	Lorenzo Pinili	Sophomore
Michigan State	Caleb Bond	Junior
Minnesota	Bennett Swavely	Senior
Minnesota	Eduardo Galdos	Senior
Minnesota	Cormac Sharpe	Junior
Nebraska	Hamish Murray	Senior
Nebraska	Reed Malleck	Graduate
Nebraska	Evan McDermott	Sophomore
Northwestern	Daniel Svard	Junior
Northwestern	Ethan Tseng	Junior
Northwestern	Cameron Adam	Senior
Ohio State	Tyler Sabo	Sophomore
Ohio State	Jack Vojtko	Sophomore
Ohio State	Joe Wilson IV	Junior
Oregon	Greyson Leach	Senior
Oregon	Aiden Krafft	Junior
Oregon	Eric Doyle	Senior
Penn State	Jake Griffin	Senior
Purdue	Nels Surtani	Senior
Purdue	Kent Hsiao	Senior
Purdue	Sam Easterbrook	Sophomore
Rutgers	Noah Kumar	Graduate
Rutgers	Weston Jones	Senior
Rutgers	Derek Gutierrez	Sophomore
UCLA	Omar Morales	Senior
UCLA	Pablo Ereño	Senior
USC	Antonio Safa	Junior
USC	Gavin Aurilia	Senior
USC	Jackson Rivera	Junior
Washington	Finn Koelle	Sophomore
Wisconsin	Jacob Beckman	Junior
Wisconsin	Spencer Turtz	Junior
Wisconsin	Evan Myers	Senior