Club 60: Meet the 19 players who have signed for a 60 in college golf

There’s an elite, exclusive club in the world of college golf where new members are rarely added.

The cost to get in? A once-in-a-lifetime round. While no player has ever crossed the scoring threshold into the 50s, 19 men’s players have signed for a 60.

While no woman has ever signed for a 60 in an official college round, five have signed for a 61, most recently in 2020 courtesy of Denver’s Anna Zanusso at the Westbrook Invitational. Julia Johnson of Ole Miss did the same in 2019 at the Battle at the Beach. While at Gonzaga, Bianca Pagdanganan shot a 61 at the 2017 Pizza Hut Thunderbird Invitational. Before that, Colorado’s Esther Lee joined the club at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational in 2016. Stanford’s Mariah Stackhouse recorded the first women’s 61 at the 2013 Peg Barnard Invitational.

Take a scroll through the members of college golf’s Club 60.

Joonho Kim, Embry-Riddle

𝒲𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝓁𝒻'𝓈 𝒞𝓁𝓊𝒷 𝟨𝟢

Population: 19#GoERAU #DaytonasHometownTeam pic.twitter.com/WAOcLj8NAR

— Embry-Riddle Men's Golf (@ERAUMGolf) October 7, 2024

Joonho Kim of Div. II Embry-Riddle became the latest to join the group with his first-round 60 at the Shark Invitational in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Oct. 7. He had 10 birdies and an eagle. A bogey on the par-4 16th was all that kept him from a 59. His 11-under round came on the 6,750-yard Grand Oaks Golf Course.

Nick Dunlap, Alabama

Nick Dunlap @AlabamaMGolf joins #Club60 with a near birdie for 59 at the Hamptons Intercollegiate! pic.twitter.com/TddV87vzTc

— Lance Ringler (@GolfweekRingler) October 2, 2023

Playing with his Alabama Crimson Tide teammates in the Hamptons Intercollegiate at Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton, New York, Nick Dunlap was on his 36th hole of the day.

He had already posted a 69 and he was 12 under through 17 on his second 18 when he faced a putt of about eight feet for a closing birdie. Had it dropped, he would’ve notched a 59 and become the first to reach that hallowed ground in the college game.

Nathan Han, Columbia

The Columbia junior fired a program record 11-under 60 in the first round of the Lions’ Columbia Fall Invite, but consecutive rounds of 70 doomed him to second place, just one shot behind winner Marcus Lim from Sacred Heart. On the flip side, the Lions went on to win the event by one shot over Sacred Heart.

𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗
Nathan Han owns the lowest round in @Columbia history with an 11-under 60 in today's first round of the Columbia Fall Invite!#RoarLionRoar #OnlyHere @IvyLeague pic.twitter.com/MBQOPDh07q

— Columbia Men's Golf Team (@CULionsMGolf) October 1, 2022

Ryan Eshleman, Auburn

Eshleman shot a 10-under 60 during the first round of the Maui Jim Intercollegiate and went on to finish T-8 while his Auburn Tigers won the event by five shots at 45 under.

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The lowest 18-hole score in program history belongs to @Ryanesh24 🙌#WarEagle pic.twitter.com/Xa4mTxJSLp

— Auburn Men's Golf (@AuburnMGolf) September 9, 2022

Sebastian Sandin, Lindsey Wilson College

Sandin felt comfortable at home at the 2022 Lindsey Wilson Invite where he shot a 10-under 60 during the second round.

New Lindsey Wilson program record for low 18-hole round for Sebastian Sandin! He breaks his previous record of an 8-under 62 with todays 10-under 60 during his second round at the Blue Raider Invite!#GoBlueRaiders ⚔ pic.twitter.com/2MrtWThTCb

— LWCGolf (@LWC_Golf) August 30, 2022

Parker Gillam, Wake Forest

Gillam shot an opening-round 60 to win the 2019 White Sands Intercollegiate at Ocean Club Golf Course for one of his two collegiate wins for the Demon Deacons.

Wake Forest’s Parker Gillam won the White Sands Intercollegiate on the strength of an opening 60.

Juan Jose Guerra, Nova Southeastern

The opening day of the Battle at the Shores hosted by Barry University in 2017 was a 36-hole day. Then a sophomore, Guerra posted a 2-over 73 in the first round before firing an 11-under 60 in the afternoon’s second round. How’s that for a bounceback round?

Guerra’s scorecard

Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern

Steven Fisk fired a 12-under 60 in the second round at the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational to become the 13th college golfer to post a 60 in college golf, and he had a real shot to be the first 59. He missed a four-footer for birdie on his penultimate hole and missed a 16-footer for birdie on his last.

Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern.

Li Wang, Yale

Li Wang had been frustrated with a swing change that took weeks to set in, and bogeyed the 18th hole at Yale’s home course in a playoff qualifier, sending him to the B-Team for the 2016 Macdonald Cup. He then went on to shoot the best round in program history with a 10-under 60.

Wang’s historic scorecard

Markus Lindberg, Missouri-St. Louis

Lindberg fired an 11-under 60 at The Country Club at The Legends in Eureka, Missouri, jumping 10 spots on the leaderboard to earn a five-shot victory at the season-opening Arch Cup back in 2016.

Markus Lindberg

Michael Miranda, St. Thomas Aquinas

Miranda shot an opening-round 11-under 60 and went on to win the 2015 Dowling College September Shootout.

Tomasz Anderson, Jacksonville State

Anderson won the 2014 Golfweek Program Challenge after a final-round 12-under 60 at True Blue Golf Course in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Matthew Carvell, SE Louisiana

Carvell shot a 12-under-par 60 in the first round of the 2008 Aldila Scenic City Invitational and went on to finish seven shots ahead of the pack.

 

Zach Bixler, Washington

Bixler tied the program record with his 11-under 60 in the second round of the 2007 Alister Mackenzie Invitational.

Zach Bixler at the 2006 NCAA Championship.

Michael Schachner, Duke

Schachner had his A-game when he needed it most at the 2007 NCAA Championship, where he shot a 10-under 60 to tie the course record at Golden Horseshoe Golf Club.

 Daniel Summerhays, BYU

Summerhays beat Schachner to the punch one year prior at Golden Horseshoe at the 2006 NCAA Fall Preview with his course record 10-under 60.

Brock Mackenzie, Washington

Four years before his fellow Husky Bixler, Mackenzie put his name in the college golf history book with a 12-under 60 at the 2003 Oregon Duck Invitational at Eugene Country Club.

Bryce Molder, Georgia Tech

Molder became the second player to sign for a 60, but the first to shoot a 12-under to get there at the 2000 Palmetto Dunes Collegiate at Arthur Hills Course at Palmetto Dunes.

Paul Casey, Arizona State

The former PGA Tour, DP World Tour and now LIV Golf player didn’t just shoot a 10-under 60, he did so at the 1999 Pac-10 Championship at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle.

Paul Casey at Arizona State University.