CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Fighting Illini senior golfer Adrien Dumont de Chassart has been named as one of 25 collegiate standouts on to the Fred Haskins Award preseason watch list, announced Thursday (Sept. 1) through Haskins Award media partners Golf Channel and Golfweek.
Dumont de Chassart returns for a fifth year with the Illini in 2022-23 and is coming off of his second consecutive Big Ten Player of the Year nod – joining Illini legend Steve Stricker as the only two-time winners in program history. The native of Villers la Ville, Belgium, was tabbed as a second-team All-American by both PING (GCAA) and Golfweek, and was named first team all-region, first team All-Big Ten, and All-Big Ten Tournament team, while appearing on both the Haskins and Hogan Award watch lists in 2021-22.
He secured the Les Bolstad Award as the Big Ten season leader in stroke average through the end of the 2022 conference championship, and at the conclusion of the Illini's postseason run his average of 70.08 established an Illinois record for a single season.
Dumont de Chassart recorded top-20 finishes in 11 of 12 collegiate stroke-play events last season, and tied for 21st in his only finish outside of the top-20 at the Southern Highland Collegiate. Overall, he led the team with seven top-10 finishes, and closed as Illinois' first- or second-place finisher in all 12 tourneys, pacing the squad in a team-most six. He tallied 29 of 36 rounds at par or better, including 15 rounds in the 60s, and won the third collegiate event of his career at the Boilermaker Invitational in early April.
This summer Dumont de Chassart competed, for the second straight season, for Team International at the Arnold Palmer Cup, after first advancing through local qualifying to compete as one of 15 amateurs in the 156-player field at the 122nd U.S. Open. He enters the season at No. 15 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) and debuted at No. 7 in the PGA TOUR University preseason rankings released in late July.
Preseason Haskins Award Watch List
- Ludvig Aberg, Texas Tech
- Sam Bennett, Texas A&M
- Fred Biondi, Florida
- Michael Brennan, Wake Forest
- Ben Carr, Georgia Southern
- Ricky Castillo, Florida
- Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Illinois
- Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira, Arkansas
- David Ford, North Carolina
- Nick Gabrelcik, North Florida
- Austin Greaser, North Carolina
- Christo Lamprecht, Georgia Tech
- Bryce Lewis, Tennessee
- Dylan Menante, North Carolina
- William Mouw, Pepperdine
- Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt
- Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt
- Brian Stark, Oklahoma State
- Preston Summerhays, Arizona State
- Caleb Surratt, Tennessee
- Michael Thorbjornsen, Stanford
- Hugo Townsend, Ole Miss
- Travis Vick, Texas
- Patrick Welch, Oklahoma
- Jiri Zuska, Louisville
About the Fred Haskins Award
Celebrating its 53rd year, the Fred Haskins Award presented by Stifel has been given to players who have captured 33 major championships and more than 400 professional tournaments around the world. Past recipients include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ben Crenshaw, and Justin Thomas. Chris Gotterup (Oklahoma) won the 52nd Haskins Award in 2022. The Fred Haskins Award is the oldest individual college golf award and the only award to be voted on by players, coaches, golf SID's, and select golf media. Golf Channel and Golfweek are media partners for the Fred Haskins Award.
