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Bobby Jacobs Named MVC Good Neighbor Award Winner

PEORIA, Ill. -- Junior men’s golfer Bobby Jacobs (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso) has been named one of 10 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Good Neighbor Award Spring recipients according to a recent announcement by the league office.

A civil engineering major with a 4.00 cumulative grade point average, Jacobs played in 24 of 33 rounds in 2015-16 and ranked fifth on the team with a 78.42 season stroke average. He tied for fourth at the I-74 Individual Challenge where he shot a season-best 72 and tied for 16th at the Carlton Oaks Invitational in Santee, Calif.