Kieron van Wyk

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Career Honors

2022 Individual CAA Champion - the first Black golfer in CAA history to win medalist honors at the league tournament.
2022, 2023, 2025 CAA Golfer of the Year
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 First Team All-CAA
4x CAA Golfer of the Week
2022, 2023, 2024 BCGCA All-American
2024 Co-CAA Individual Champion
First CofC golfer to qualify for a PGA tour event while competing for the Cougars

Senior (2024-25)

Etched his name in the CAA record book as the only student athlete to secure three Golfer of the Year awards. Ended the season ranked No. 27 in the country and was ranked as high as No. 15.
Posted an adjusted round score of 69.0 with four top-three finishes including a pair of wins at the Hootie Intercollegiate (March 23-25) and White Sands Collegiate (Oct. 25-27, 2024).
Played in two PGA Tour events this spring, the Puerto Rico Open and Valspar Championship, earning a T4 finish in Puerto Rico.
Captured the APGA Tour's season-opening Farmers Insurance Invitational on Sunday at Torrey Pines Golf Course (South), becoming the first amateur golfer to win an APGA event since the tour started in 2010.
Named to the Haskins Award Watch List and finished No. 1 in the Bridgestone APGA Collegiate Rankings.
Earned three CAA Golfer of the Week honors

Junior (2023-24)

Earned five top 20 finishes in a row to close out the season, culminating in the individual CAA title.
Finished the regular season with a 70.9 stroke average.
Posted a low round of 66 at the CAA Championship.

Sophomore (2022-2023)

NCAA Individual Qualifier and CAA Golfer of the Year.
Ranked in the top 100 nationally and finished in the top 10 in three of his six events played.
Won the bank of Tennessee intercollegiate in October at 13-under.
Had a stroke average of 70.39
Ranked has high as seventh in the Arnold Palmer Cup Rankings.

Freshman (2021-22)

Put together a legendary rookie campaign that saw him become the first Black individual champion of the CAA.
Named CAA Golfer of the Year and First Team All-CAA after firing a 71.1 scoring average.
Competed in all 30 rounds and started every tournament for the Cougars.
Led CofC at the NCAA Regional with a T-4 finish to help the Cougs clinch a spot at the NCAA National Championships for the first time since 2001.
Finished the season with a team-high 20 rounds under par, eight rounds in the 60s, six Top-25 finishes and and five Top-10 finishes.
Took a T-19 finish at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate.
Placed T-2 at the Daniel Island Intercollegiate with a 3-under.
Steered CofC with a T-4 finish at the Sea Best Invitational.
Got his first career tournament win at the Schenkel Invitational, firing a career-low 66 in the opening round and shooting 12-under par for the week.
Fired three consecutive rounds of 69 or better to card a 13-under 203 for the win at the CAA Championship.
Was CofC's top finisher at the NCAA National Championships, carding a 17-over 227.

Prior to C of C

Attended Curro Aurora High School in Johannesburg, South Africa
Currently ranked 157th on World Golf Rankings
Finished 2nd in the KwaZulu-Natal Open Strokeplay in 2021
Finished 3rd in both the Western Province Amateur and the Northern Amateur open in 2021
Has finished in the Top-10 at tournaments 13 times
Was a part of a South African High School Golf National Championship winning team in 2018

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