
Gordon Sargent Season 2022-23
Class
Sophomore
Hometown
Birmingham, Ala.
High School
Mountain Brook
Major
Undeclared
Student-Athlete Features
The Anchor Podcast
VUCommodores.com — A Champion’s Drive
GOLF Channel highlights — Sargent wins national championship
The Associated Press — Sargent wins NCAA title in playoff
GOLF Channel — Sargent wins NCAA men’s individual title
Golfweek — Sargent wins individual title at 2022 NCAA Championship
As a Sophomore (2022-23):
- Invited to 2023 Masters Tournament
- Golfweek Preseason First-Team All-American
- Named to First Spring Haskins Award Watch List
- Named to 2022 Haskins Award Preseason Watch List
- Named to Final Fall Haskins Award Watch List
- February 2023 SwingU College Player of the Month
- co-SEC Golfer of the Week (Feb. 22)
- co-SEC Golfer of the Week (Feb. 8)
- co-SEC Golfer of the Week (Nov. 2)
- co-SEC Golfer of the Week (Oct. 5)
- Won the individual title at the John Hayt Invitational at 15-under-par (201)
- Won the individual stroke play championship at the East Lake Cup with a 4-under-par 68
- Tied the course record of 64 at the Sawgrass Country Club during the second round of the John Hayt Invitational
- Tied for second at 2022 SEC Match Play event with a 54-hole total of 198
- Finished tied for second at the Watersound at 13-under-par and carded back-to-back 66s to close out the event
- Shot 6-under-par at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational to tie for third overall
- Finished in a tie for fourth at the Linger Longer Invitational
- Tied for sixth at the Jones Cup
- Finished seventh at the Cabo Collegiate at 3-under-par
- Shot a 62 in the second round of the Frederica Cup, finished tied for seventh overall at 14-under-par for the tournament
- Tied for 36th overall individually and helped Team USA to a third-place finish at the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship
- Competed for Team USA at the Palmer Cup
- Advanced to match play at the 2022 U.S. Amateur
As a Freshman (2021-22):
- 2022 individual national champion
- Totaled a 280 through four rounds of stroke play at the NCAA Championships before winning a four-way playoff to win the individual national title
- 2022 Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award
- NCAA Division I PING First-Team All-American
- Golfweek First-Team All-American
- SEC Freshman of the Year
- Haskins Award finalist
- First Team All-SEC
- SEC All-Freshman Team
- PING All-Region Southeast
- First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Led the Commodores with a 70.03 scoring average
- SEC Championships individual runner-up at 5-under-par (205)
- Mossy Oak Collegiate champion with a 54-hole total 204 (-12)
- Named SEC Freshman of the Week (April 14)
- Named SEC Freshman of the Week (April 7)
- Named SEC Freshman of the Week (March 31)
- Shot a 4-under-par 212 and tied for fourth at the Palm Beach Regional
- Tied for fourth at the Linger Longer Invitational at 7-under-par (209)
- Finished fifth at the 2022 Mason Rudolph Championship with a 54-hole total of 204
- In his Vanderbilt debut, tied for sixth at the 2021 Carmel Cup with a 4-under-par 212
- Came in seventh at the Cabo Collegiate at 10-under-par
- Tied for eighth at the Williams Cup
The Sargent File
- No. 1-ranked player in state of Alabama
- No. 2-ranked player in class of 2021
- Three-time Rolex Junior All American
- 2021 Western Amateur runner-up
- 2021 USA TODAY Male Golfer of the Year
- 2021 Alabama Golf Association Amateur Player of the Year
- 2020 recipient of the Paul S. Simon Character Award (Sage Valley Invitational)
- Co-founder and three-time host of the Alabama Cup charity event, which has raised more than $150,000 for the AJGA Ace Grant and Alabama charities
- Two-time Alabama boys Junior Player of the Year
- Two-time AJGA champion
- 2020 Alabama State Amateur champion
- 2019 Alabama State Junior champion
- Competed in 2019 US Junior
- Competed in 2020 US Amateur
- Ranked No. 3 nationally by Golfweek, Junior Golf Scoreboard and Rolex