Jack Whaley of Dalton State College, Josele Ballester of Arizona State University and Spain, Sungyeop Cho of Colorado Christian University and South Korea, Justin Chan of Carnegie Mellon University and England, and Adam Bresnu of Odessa College and Morocco have received the 2025 Gary Player International Golfer of the Year Awards presented by FlightScope.
The awards – given to five outstanding collegiate golfers from outside the United States in NCAA divisions I, II and III as well as the NAIA and NJCAA – were announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America in partnership with FlightScope.
Jack, who also received the NAIA 2025 Jack Nicklaus Award presented by Workday, won five times this season, including the 2025 NAIA Championship, and finished inside the top three in all nine tournaments for the Roadrunners. The sophomore from Doncaster had a 69.52 scoring average (the only NAIA golfer with a 2024-25 scoring average below 70) with 14 rounds in the 60s en route to PING First Team All-American and Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) Player of the Year honours for the second consecutive year.
The Gary Player Award recipients are selected by GCAA International member coaches with representation from around the world.
