Three days after being named the recipient of the Ben Hogan Award, which honors the nation’s best golfer, senior Doug Ghim was named a finalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award for the same honor. Along with Ghim, four other golfers were named finalists. Fellow rival Chandler Phillips (Texas A&M), Justin Suh (USC), Shintaro Ban (UNLV) and Norman Xiong (Oregon) are finalists.
The 2018 Jack Nicklaus Award will be announced next Thursday, May 31 and the award will be presented to the winner by Jack Nicklaus himself on Sunday, June 3 during the last day of the PGA Tour Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.