Baylor MGOLF’s Keefer Named Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of The Year

[Roberts, Matt]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – July 21, 2022
Baylor MGOLF’s Keefer Named Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of The Year
Junior is BU’s third Big 12 men’s golf honoree in the last six years
For more information contact: Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu<mailto:WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu>
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WACO, Texas – Baylor men’s golfer Johnny Keefer has been selected as the Big 12 Conference Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the year, as announced Thursday by the conference office.
Keefer is the third BU men’s golfer to win the award and the third in the last six years, joining Matthew Perrine (2017) and Colin Kober (2019). Keefer is joined by women's golf's Gurleen Kaur as a spring scholar-athlete of the year, giving the Bears 28, which is second-most in Big 12 history. Additionally, men's golf's three scholar-athletes are the second-most among Baylor Athletics programs, trailing only women's golf and baseball, which each have four. Keefer joins Perrine as one of two players in program history to be named Scholar Athlete of the Year and All-Big 12 in the same season.
The accounting major from San Antonio boasts a 3.76 GPA and is coming off his best season on the course as a Bear. He earned Third Team All-America Honors from Golfweek and the GCAA. He also became BU’s first representative on the All-Big 12 team since Garrett May in 2018, and made the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

Keefer played out of the No. 1 spot for every tournament, with a stroke average of 71.34 across 29 stroke-play rounds. Keefer's single-season average led the team and ranked seventh-best in program history. He also led the team in top-5s (2), top-10s (5), top-25s (9) and rounds at par or better (18) while accounting for 33% of the team's par-or-better rounds.

Additionally, he led the team in par-3 scoring (3.05), par-4 scoring (4.09), and par-5 scoring (4.63). He became the first BU player to compete in an NCAA postseason event as an individual since 2009, tying for 11th at the Norman Regional at Jimmie Austin Golf Club. In the process, Keefer became the fifth player to shoot two sub-70 rounds in the same NCAA postseason.

The All-American tied a school record with a final-round 63 at the Cabo Collegiate en route to his best finish of the season (T3). Keefer finished the season ranked 13th in Golfstat, 23rd in Golfweek and 78th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and earned a spot on the United States Palmer Cup Team, the fourth Palmer Cup participant in program history.

Keefer has played 70 rounds across 24 stroke-play tournaments in his career, ranking second in career stroke average (71.74), .21 strokes behind Jimmy Walker's program record. He is one of 15 players in program history to have nine or more top-10s and boasts an 11-4-2 career record in match play.
Keefer will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Amateur on July 27, before competing in the prestigious Western Amateur Aug. 2-6, as part of the Elite Amateur Golf Series.
For more information on Baylor Men’s Golf, follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
BAYLOR'S BIG 12 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Baseball – Doug Ashby (2014), Logan Brown (2015), Richard Cunningham (2017), Kyle Hill (2019)
Equestrian – Rachel Van Allen (2018), Rachael Davis (2020)
Football – Nick Florence<https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=26> (2012)
Men's Basketball – Freddie Gillespie (2020), Jared Butler (2021)
Men's Golf – Matthew Perrine (2017), Colin Kober (2019), Johnny Keefer (2022)
Men's Tennis – Patrick Pradella (2014), Jimmy Bendeck (2019)
Men's XC – Blake Niccum (2012), Jonathan Tijerina (2014)
Soccer – Dana Larsen (2012), Precious Akanyirige (2017)
Softball – Kathy Shelton (2013), Heather Stearns (2015)
Volleyball – Shelly (Fanning) Stafford (2018 & 2019)
Women's Golf – Laura Lonardi (2015 & 2016), Elodie Chapelet<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10292> (2021), Gurleen Kaur (2022)
Women's Tennis – Blair Shankle (2017)
Women's XC – Lindsey Bradley (2017)
BIG 12 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE YEAR BY SCHOOL
Iowa State-35
Baylor-28
Kansas State-24
West Virginia-23
Oklahoma State-21
Kansas-18
Oklahoma-17
TCU-16
Texas-14
Texas Tech-11
Denver-3
North Dakota State-1
Northern Colorado-1
South Dakota State-1
Tennessee-1
Alabama- 1
2021-22 Season Honors
Trey Bosco
Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)
Luke Dossey
Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)
Brandon Hoff
Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)
Tyler Isenhart
Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)

Johnny Keefer

Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)

GCAA/PING All-American (Third Team)

Golfweek All-American (Third Team)

All-Big 12 Team

Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Mark Reppe

Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)

CoSIDA Academic All-District (District 8)


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Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MGOLF/ WGOLF/ FOOTBALL/ MBB)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-227-2280



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