This year’s freshman class of golfers has been given extremely high expectations. After the losses of Gen Nagai and Chris Yeom, the new class of James Bosworth, Ian Lee, and Wenliang Xie have a tough four-year act to follow as it looks to make a splash in the collegiate golf world. Of the three newcomers, Xie is gotten off to the fastest start.
The Chinese native, who attended high school in California, made his first collegiate appearance on Sept. 7-8 in Hamilton, New York at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial Invitational. There, Xie played well for a freshman, hitting 10-over-par and tying for 32nd place individually.