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Florida State junior Luke Clanton won the 2025 Ben Hogan Award presented by Baird on Monday night at the Colonial Country Club.
Clanton becomes the second player in Florida State history to capture the award after John Pak was the winner in 2021.
The Ben Hogan Award annually awards the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur, and professional events over the previous 12 months. The joint announcement was made by the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation, the Friends of Golf (FOG) and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
As the top-ranked amateur in the world, Clanton earned his PGA TOUR Card after securing his 20th accelerated point through PGA TOUR University at the Cognizant Classic by making the cut.
In 13 career PGA TOUR starts, Clanton became the first amateur to record top 10 finishes in back-to-back starts since Bill Joe Patton in 1957 after placing second at the 2024 John Deere Classic and 10th at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
At age 20, he became the youngest player to finish second on TOUR since Jordan Spieth at the 2014 Masters Tournament.
Clanton has led the Seminoles to four victories in 2024-25, while topping the leaderboard in each win. Clanton became the first two-time NCAA Regional champion, after winning the Tallahassee Regional at 15-under, 201, setting a new course record for a three-round low at Seminole Legacy.
The 11th-ranked Noles were dominant in the victory, finishing at 29-under, nine strokes ahead of No. 5 Ole Miss.
The Hialeah, Florida, native is averaging 69.11 strokes per round as a junior and tied his single-round low of 64 to open the Seminoles Intercollegiate at the Glen Arven Country Club.
Clanton recorded seven top 10 finishes in 2024-25 and placed in the top 15 in all 10 of his starts.
Over the years, recipients of the Ben Hogan Award have combined to accumulate 70 PGA TOUR wins and amass more than $465 million in prize money on the tour. Since 2002, the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation has donated more than $1 million to college golf programs, providing scholarship grants as well as gifts to programs that have suffered tragic events.
Other notable recipients include Ludvig Aberg (2022, 2023), Patrick Cantlay (2012), Rickie Fowler (2008), Viktor Hovland (2019), John Rahm (2015, 2016), Sahith Theegala (2020), among others.
The Seminoles will travel to Carlsbad, California to play in the NCAA Championship starting on Friday.
Florida State junior Luke Clanton won the 2025 Ben Hogan Award presented by Baird on Monday night at the Colonial Country Club.
Clanton becomes the second player in Florida State history to capture the award after John Pak was the winner in 2021.
The Ben Hogan Award annually awards the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur, and professional events over the previous 12 months. The joint announcement was made by the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation, the Friends of Golf (FOG) and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
As the top-ranked amateur in the world, Clanton earned his PGA TOUR Card after securing his 20th accelerated point through PGA TOUR University at the Cognizant Classic by making the cut.
In 13 career PGA TOUR starts, Clanton became the first amateur to record top 10 finishes in back-to-back starts since Bill Joe Patton in 1957 after placing second at the 2024 John Deere Classic and 10th at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
At age 20, he became the youngest player to finish second on TOUR since Jordan Spieth at the 2014 Masters Tournament.
Clanton has led the Seminoles to four victories in 2024-25, while topping the leaderboard in each win. Clanton became the first two-time NCAA Regional champion, after winning the Tallahassee Regional at 15-under, 201, setting a new course record for a three-round low at Seminole Legacy.
The 11th-ranked Noles were dominant in the victory, finishing at 29-under, nine strokes ahead of No. 5 Ole Miss.
The Hialeah, Florida, native is averaging 69.11 strokes per round as a junior and tied his single-round low of 64 to open the Seminoles Intercollegiate at the Glen Arven Country Club.
Clanton recorded seven top 10 finishes in 2024-25 and placed in the top 15 in all 10 of his starts.
Over the years, recipients of the Ben Hogan Award have combined to accumulate 70 PGA TOUR wins and amass more than $465 million in prize money on the tour. Since 2002, the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation has donated more than $1 million to college golf programs, providing scholarship grants as well as gifts to programs that have suffered tragic events.
Other notable recipients include Ludvig Aberg (2022, 2023), Patrick Cantlay (2012), Rickie Fowler (2008), Viktor Hovland (2019), John Rahm (2015, 2016), Sahith Theegala (2020), among others.
The Seminoles will travel to Carlsbad, California to play in the NCAA Championship starting on Friday.
