Washington men’s golf finished the season ranked as the No. 45 team nationally, up from No. 104 last season, according to a June 1 announcement.
The team secured third place at the Big Ten Championships in North Plains, Oregon, with a combined score of 842 (+2). This marks Washington’s best finish in a conference tournament since winning the Pac-12 Team Championship in 2022 and represents the program’s 17th top-three finish at a conference tournament. Two Huskies finished in the top ten: Finn Koelle placed second with a score of 205 (-5), becoming the twelfth Husky to finish as conference tournament runner-up, while Emil Herstad tied for ninth at 209 (-1). Koelle was also named to the All-Tournament Team.
Three Huskies—Jacob Goode, Finn Koelle and Emil Herstad—competed as individuals at NCAA Regionals and all finished in the top twenty. Koelle and Herstad both shot scores of 208 (-5) to tie for ninth place; Goode shot a 210 (-3) to tie for eighteenth. It is the first time since 2015 that two Huskies have placed in the top ten at NCAA Regionals.
Goode, Koelle and Herstad were named to the All-Big Ten Second Team; Herstad also earned All-Freshman Team honors, while freshman Grady Millar was selected for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Team. Goode became only the seventh Husky ever to shoot under two hundred with his performance (199/-17) at Amer Ari in January and recorded six rounds in the sixties this season.
Herstad led Washington with a scoring average of seventy-one point one over six events since joining campus mid-season—the nineteenth-best single-season average in program history—and twice posted scores of two hundred nine across tournaments this year. Koelle received his second career conference nod after being named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team previously; he also became Washington’s first-ever recipient of Big Ten Player of The Week honors.
Other notable performances included Jake Foley’s career-best sixth-place finish at The Tindall (209/-7), Brock Maulding’s five-under-par showing (211) at The Tindall for his first career under-par tournament, Grady Millar’s eighth-place tie (210/-6) also at The Tindall along with his lowest fifty-four-hole score (209/-7), Jack Murphy’s career-low round (207/-9) at Amer Ari, and Vidur Subramaniam competing individually during select events.
