Career Highlights

Two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2019, 2020)
2019 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar 

Junior - 2019-20

• Played six rounds in two tournaments in the COVID-19 shortened season
• Appeared In the team lineup in one event, the season-opening Maui Jim Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15)
• Played one rounds of par or better
• Also competed for the Illini at the Cypress Point Classic (Oct. 28-29)

Summer - 2019

• Won the Tazewell County Amateur with scores 67-70 = 137
• Tied for 12th at the Sahalee Players
• Appeared in the field at the Trans-Mississippi Amateur
• Competed in the Illinois State Amateur and the Illinois Open

Sophomore - 2018-19

• Played in nine tournaments throughout the season, appearing in the team lineup in seven events
• Played 10 rounds at or under par 
• Earned four top-25 finishes, highlighted by a T-11 finish at the Big Ten Championship
• Appeared in the team lineup at the NCAA Myrtle Beach Regional and the NCAA Championships
• Set a new career-low with a first-round 67 (-4) at the Hawkeye Invitational, also finishing with a career-low 203 (-10)

Summer - 2018

• Tied for 35th at the Dogwood Invitational 
• Appeared in the field at the Western Junior
• Tied for sixth at the Magnolia Amateur in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He combined with Brendan O'Reilly to take third in the event's team competition as well
• Tied for 16th at the Illinois State Amateur
• Qualified for and appeared in the field at the U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach
• Finished among the top 20 at the Northern Amateur

Freshman - 2018-19

• Competed as an individual at the OFCC/Illini Invitational
• Tied for eighth playing as an individual at the Hopkins Golf Collegiate
• Finished T33 playing as in individual at the BIGHORN Invitational

High School

• Two-time IHSA State Championship runner-up
• Placed fourth at the 2016 IHSA State Golf Championship
• Twice named the News Gazette Area Boys’ Golfer of the Year
• 2016-17 All-State honoree
• Finished among the top 30 at the 2016 Illinois Amateur
• Placed fourth at the Under Armour/Gary Woodland Championship
• Winner of the 2015 AJGA Bass Pro Shots/Payne Stewart Junior Championship

Personal

• Son of Sanjiv and Archana Chopra.
• Born July 20, 1999
• Also played basketball in high school
• Volunteers for the food pantry and Habitat for Humanity
• Lists Tiger Woods as his favorite athlete and Steve Stricker as his favorite Illini athlete.
• Plans to major in business