2017-18 Men's Golf Roster
Sam Triplett
- Height:
- 5-8
- Weight:
- 160
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Scottsdale, Ariz.
- High School:
- Brophy Prep
Sam Triplett Bio and Career Results
2017-18: Second Team All-Big Ten ... Division I PING Midwest All-Region Team ... Posted his career-best scoring average (73.19) in his final season in Evanston ... Led the team in rounds played (32), low round (66), rounds in 60s (5) and percentage of rounds counted (95.2 percent) ... Was the last remaining Wildcat at the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma, advancing to the final day as one of the low nine individuals from non-advancing team ... Carded two rounds at or under par while at Karsten Creek ... Helped lead the Wildcats to an NCAA Championships berth at the NCAA Regionals in Columbus ... Started the tournament with an opening-round 73 ... Fired an opening-round 69 at the Big Ten Championships en route to a top-25 finish ... Logged his best 54-hole score at The Goodwin, finishing with a 7-under par 206 ... Came in fourth place, which led all Wildcat entrants ... Started the event with a 5-under 66, his best round in his NU career ... Marked his first time logging all rounds at par or better since the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in 2017 ... Finished the Southern Highlands Collegiate with back-to-back rounds at or under par ... Led the ’Cats with his 20th-place finish ... Carded the second-best round of his NU career, an opening 67 at the Prestige at PGA WEST ... The 4-under tally put him in first place after day one ... Finished tied for 10th ... Won three of four matches at Big Ten Match Play ... Beat Nebraska’s Cameron Jones, 3&1, in NU’s event-opening victory ... Shot back to back 69s and finished with a 1-over 211 (73-69-69) to tie for thirteenth place at the Windon Memorial ... Carded an even par in the final round of the UNCG/Grandover collegiate in which he finished tied for seventeenth ... Academic All-Big Ten.
2016-17: Notched a career-low 73.73 stroke average while playing 26 rounds with the Wildcats ... Shot under-par all three rounds at the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate for the first time in his NU career to notch a career-low 208 (70-68-70) ... Took home a fourth-place tie, his best finish as a Wildcat ... Shot 75-70-71 as an individual in the Wright State Invitational to tie for ninth place ... Carded a 1-over 217 (71-72-74) at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate to register a top-20 finish ... Rebounded to shoot 74 and 68 in the final two rounds of the Marquette Intercollegiate to finish with a 2-over 212, good for a 16th-place tie ... Academic All-Big Ten.
2015-16: Competed in seven events as a team member and three rounds of Big Ten Match Play and averaged 75.19 strokes per round on the season ... Tied for 16th at the Windon Memorial with an even 216 after an eight-under 64 in the second round, the team-low round of the season that tied the third-lowest single round in program history ... Defeated Michigan State’s Dylan Deogun 4-and-2 in the first round of Big Ten Match Play ... Shot a two-under 70 in the third round of the Big Ten Championships ... Academic All-Big Ten.
2014-15: Competed in eight of Northwestern’s tournaments including five times as a member of the team lineup … Best round of the fall was a closing 1-over 71 at NU’s home Windon Memorial which gave him a season-best 36th place finish … Shot a 1-under 71 in the second round of the Louisiana Classics … Competing as an individual, had a 1-under 69 in the second round of The Goodwin … After a slow start to his final round at NU’s final regular-season event, the Boilermaker Invitational, in which he was 3-over through five holes, hung in to card a 2-over 74 and help the Wildcats move up to a season-best third-place team finish with an important counting score.
Junior Career: The 2012 PING Junior Match Play champion ... Finished T8 at the 2014 Arizona Public Links Championship ... Was T3 at the 2013 Junior Americas Cup while representing his home state of Arizona ... 2013 Tucson City Junior champion ... Led Brophy Prep to the 2011 Arizona state high school team championship ... AP Scholar award winner ... National Merit Scholar.
Personal: Born Samuel J. Triplett ... Son of Kirk and Cathi ... Father is a current Champions Tour player and former PGA Tour member with 10 worldwide professional victories ... Major is statistics.
