Former NCAA champ Aaron Wise can now add PGA Tour Rookie of the Year to his credentials.
Wise was the only rookie to make the 30-man Tour Championship last month at East Lake, thanks in large part to his victory at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May. On Tuesday the Tour announced that he was named top rookie for 2018, beating out a field that included Austin Cook, Satoshi Kodaira, Joaquin Niemann and Keith Mitchell.
In addition to Wise’s breakthrough victory at Trinity Forest, his season also included a runner-up finish at the Wells Fargo Championship and a T-5 finish in The Northern Trust.
Wise won both the individual and team national title in 2016 during his senior season at Oregon. The 22-year-old joins Mackenzie Hughes as the only players to win events on the Mackenzie Tour, Web.com Tour and PGA Tour.
A resident of Las Vegas, Wise has a home game this week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open where he will join a field that includes Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau and Tony Finau.
Recent Rookie of the Year recipients include Fowler (2010), Spieth (2013), Daniel Berger (2015) and Xander Schauffele (2017).
Source: Internet
