TicketsCINCINNATI -- Former Cincinnati men's golf star Austin Squires has gained even more recognition in his budding professional career, as he earned an exemption into one of the opening Korn Ferry Tour events of the 2023 season.
Squires will take part in the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay, Jan. 15-18. The event is owned and operated by bdG Sports. The top 30 players at the end of the 26-event Korn Ferry Tour campaign will earn their PGA TOUR cards for the 2023-24 season.
Squires turned pro in 2019. He joined the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and the PGA TOUR Canada in 2020 and the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. He recently earned exemption in every 2022-23 PGA TOUR Latinoamérica event after winning its first qualifying event at Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida, in November. His 19-under 269 came in wire-to-wire fashion and marked the best winning score at the site during a qualifying event. He played in eight PGA TOUR Canada events in 2022, making three cuts. He posted one top-20 performance in three PGA TOUR Latinoamérica events in 2020 and made five cuts with a top-25 finish in eight Forme Tour tournaments that same year.
A native of Union, Kentucky, Squires attended Ryle High School and garnered American Athletic Conference Player of the Year accolades in 2017 and was a three-time All-AAC performer (2017, 2018, 2019). He was a two-time NCAA Tournament Regional participant and twice advanced to the USGA United States Amateur quarterfinals (2018, 2019). He earned a finance degree with a 3.89 cumulative GPA, earning two GCAA All-American Scholar awards and the AAC's Men'ss Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor as a senior. He was also thee 2019 Jimmy Nippert Award recipient as the university's top male athlete who achieves great success in academics, athletics and community service.
The Cincinnati men's golf team will look to build off its best semester in program history when it opens at the Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico, Feb. 26-28.
Squires will take part in the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay, Jan. 15-18. The event is owned and operated by bdG Sports. The top 30 players at the end of the 26-event Korn Ferry Tour campaign will earn their PGA TOUR cards for the 2023-24 season.
Squires turned pro in 2019. He joined the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and the PGA TOUR Canada in 2020 and the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. He recently earned exemption in every 2022-23 PGA TOUR Latinoamérica event after winning its first qualifying event at Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida, in November. His 19-under 269 came in wire-to-wire fashion and marked the best winning score at the site during a qualifying event. He played in eight PGA TOUR Canada events in 2022, making three cuts. He posted one top-20 performance in three PGA TOUR Latinoamérica events in 2020 and made five cuts with a top-25 finish in eight Forme Tour tournaments that same year.
A native of Union, Kentucky, Squires attended Ryle High School and garnered American Athletic Conference Player of the Year accolades in 2017 and was a three-time All-AAC performer (2017, 2018, 2019). He was a two-time NCAA Tournament Regional participant and twice advanced to the USGA United States Amateur quarterfinals (2018, 2019). He earned a finance degree with a 3.89 cumulative GPA, earning two GCAA All-American Scholar awards and the AAC's Men'ss Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor as a senior. He was also thee 2019 Jimmy Nippert Award recipient as the university's top male athlete who achieves great success in academics, athletics and community service.
The Cincinnati men's golf team will look to build off its best semester in program history when it opens at the Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico, Feb. 26-28.
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