2023-24 Men's Golf Roster
Biography
** All-ASUN, 2nd Team (2024)
** NCAA D-II Individual National Champion (2023)
** NCAA D-II South / Southeast Region Individual Champion (2023)
** PING GCAA First Team All-American (2023)
** GCAA All Region Team (2023)
** All-SSC Second Team (2021-22, 2022-23)
** Athletic Director's List (2021)
** CSC Academic All-District Team (2023-24)
** ASUN Academic Honor Roll (2023-24)
CAREER NOTES
Best 18: 62 (1st Rd, 2023 NCAA South/SE Regional)
Best 54: 198 (2024 Gator Invitational)
Top Finish: 1st, 2x (2023 NCAA D-II National Championship | 2023 NCAA South/SE Regional)
Top 10 finishes: 13
Top 25 finishes: 22
Rounds under par: 45
Rounds in 60s: 22
2023-24
- Competed in 13 tournaments and recorded a scoring average of 72.79
- Set a career-best 54-hole mark at 12-under 198 during his runner-up finish at the Gator Invitational
- Notched a season-best score of 6-under 64 in the second round of the Florida event as well
- Placed inside the top 25 in five events with a pair of top-10 finishes as well
- Finished ninth at Lewis Chitengwa Memorial on top of his runner-up placement at UF
- Turned in 21st-overall placements at both the Sea Best Invitational and the Puerto Rico Classic
- Completed 13 rounds under par, 11 rounds in the 60s and five tournaments under par
- Helped Ospreys to four top-three placements and 10 top-five finishes, including four of five fall tournaments
- Aided UNF to a fifth-place team finish at the NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional to advance to its eighth national championship appearance in program history
- Also included team runner-up finishes at Sea Best Invitational and Gator Invitational
- Was top-two UNF scorer in three total events, as well as top-three scorer in five events, and had 29 rounds count towards the team score
Prior to UNF
- Started 11 events for Palm Beach Atlantic during his sophomore season
- Won PBA's first national championship as an individual at the NCAA National Tournament at (-12)
- Won the NCAA South / Southeast Regional where he opened with a school-record round of 62
- Broke the single-season scoring average record with a 70.2
- Was named a PING GCAA First Team All-American and to the All-Region team
- Also won first ever GCAA Arnold Palmer award in 2023
- Had seven top-10 finishes in his 11 events throughout the season
- Competed in nine events in his freshman year
- Finished fifth in the Matlock Invitational and finished T52 in the NCAA South Region Tournament
- Was the first PBA golfer in history to compete in Regionals and the PBA golfer to earn All-SSC honors
- Had an average score of 72 over 27 rounds and had a low round of 67
Amateur || Juniors
- 2019 U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier & medalist
- 2022 U.S. Amateur qualifier & medalist
- 2022 Palm Beach County AM champion
- 2023 U.S. Amateur qualifier
High School
- Attended Creekside HS and played for coaches David Hudson and Jim Bagnardi
- Named Greater First Coast Player of the Year in 2021
- Qualified for the state championship his final two years
- Also was two-time country champ (2020 & 2021), district champ (2021) and selected all-state (2021)
Personal
- Born on March 7, 2003
- Son of Kevin and Miclyn Riley
- Has one sibling, Charlotte (23)
- Cousin, Thomas Salmon, plays tennis at Palm Beach Atlantic
- Plans to major in business
