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2021-22 Men's Golf Roster

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Ben Scherman

  • Height:
    5-8
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Naples, Fla.
  • Highschool:
    Loyola Academy

Summary

Biography


Awards:

  • 2020-21 Ping Honorable Mention All-America
  • 2019-20 & 2020-21 Ping All-Region Team
  • 2020-21 NCAC Bob Nye Award Winner (Overall Medalist)
  • 2020-21 & 2021-22 First-Team All-NCAC
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week three times (10/21/19, 3/29/21 & 9/13/21)
  • 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22 Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar
  • 2019-20 & 2020-21 NCAC Academic Honor Roll
  • Member of Denison's Chi Alpha Sigma chapter

Career:

  • 70 rounds, 75.3 scoring average
  • Career-low round of 67

2021-22 (Senior):

  • Played 24 rounds over 10 events
  • Finished with a scoring average with 75.6 per round (second-lowest on the team)
  • Shot a season round low-score of 69 (+4) in the first round of the NCAC/OAC Clash (Apr. 23-24)
  • Had two top-five finishes and four top-10 finishes
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week (9/13/21) after shooting a one-under-par during round two and tying for 12th place among 108 golfers at the Carthage Fall Invite (Sept. 11-12)
  • Named First-Team All-NCAC for the second year in a row
  • GCAA All-America Scholar for the third time in his career
  • Graduated with the second-lowest career scoring average in program history (75.27)

2020-21 (Junior):

  • Played 17 rounds over 10 tournaments
  • Led the team in scoring average with 74.0 per round (fifth-lowest in a single season in program history)
  • Shot a career round low-score of 67 (-4) in the Big Red's match against Wittenberg and Wooster (tied for the third-lowest round in program history)
  • Won three tournaments, most notably a first-place finish at the NCAC Championship after defeating teammate Will Grady in a playoff to earn the NCAC Bob Nye Award (Overall Medalist) and First-Team All-NCAC honors
  • Had seven top-5 finishes and eight top-10 finishes
  • Tied for 29th at the NCAA Championship
  • Named Division III Ping All-Great Lakes Region team and All-America Honorable Mention
  • GCAA All-American Scholar
  • Named to the 2020-21 NCAC Academic Honor Roll

2019-20 (Sophomore):

  • Named to the Division III PING All-Great Lakes Region team
  • NCAA Division III Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar
  • Played in 11 rounds while making five starts
  • Was third on the team with a 74.3 scoring average
  • Medalist at the Virtues Fall Classic after rounds of 73 and 68
  • Logged one top-5 and two top-10 finishes in the fall
  • Was named NCAC Player of the Week after placing first at the Virtues on Oct. 20 
  • Named to the 2019-20 NCAC Academic Honor Roll

2018-19 (First-Year): 

  • Played in all 18 rounds as a freshman
  • Shot a season-low 69 during the second round of the Camp Lejeune Intercollegiate (April 5-7)
  • Tied for first place at the Nye Intercollegiate (April 13-14) while shooting even par
  • Shot an average of 76.7 for the season

Personal: 

  • Data analytics major
  • Is the son of Debra and Daniel Scherman
  • His father, Daniel, played golf at Dartmouth from 1979-83
  • Member of the club hockey team at Denison

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  • 2020-21Junior

  • 2021-22Senior

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