STANFORD, Calif. - Junior Maverick McNealy was named to the Ben Hogan Award watch list, as announced Wednesday.
This is the 11th consecutive year that Stanford has had a player named to the watch list, the longest active streak by any school.
The most prestigious award in men’s college golf, the Ben Hogan Award is issued annually to the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer taking into account all collegiate and amateur competitions during the past 12-month period. The Ben Hogan Award selection committee, which votes during each stage of the process, is comprised of leaders in professional, amateur and collegiate golf.
Along with McNealy, the 2016 Ben Hogan Award watch list includes: Dawson Armstrong (Lipscomb), Derek Bard (Virginia), Sean Crocker (USC), Charlie Danielson (Illinois), Thomas Detry (Illinois), Jonathan Garrick (UCLA), Nick Hardy (Illinois), Rico Hoey (USC), Sam Horsfield (Florida), Beau Hossler (Texas), Michael Johnson (Auburn), Hank Lebioda (Florida State), Lee McCoy (Georgia), Matthew NeSmith (South Carolina), Jordan Niebrugge (Oklahoma State), Corey Pereira (Washington), Jon Rahm (Arizona State), Antoine Rozner (Missouri-Kansas City), Matthias Schwab (Vanderbilt), Robby Shelton (Alabama), Aaron Wise (Oregon), Adam Wood (Duke), Cameron Young (Wake Forest) and Will Zalatoris (Wake Forest).
The list of 10 semifinalists, which could include individuals not on the watch list, will be unveiled on April 13.
Rahm, the 2015 Ben Hogan Award winner, is trying to become the first player ever to win the award twice. McNealy was a finalist for the award last year.
The award, which was first issued in 1990 and also included academic achievement in its original list of standards, revised its criteria for the 2001-02 collegiate season to its current standard of honoring the outstanding amateur collegiate golfer at Colonial Country Club.
Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers won the award in 2014.