2 ASU men’s golfers land top 10 in Class of 2025 preseason rankings

Winning the final Pac-12 Championship as a program last year, ASU men’s golf is heading to the Big 12 Conference and two Sun Devils landed on the PGA TOUR University preseason rankings for the Class of 2025.

Leading the pack, Arizona State’s Preston Summerhays is No. 1 and 2024 U.S. Amateur Championship winner Josele Ballester is projected to be No. 9 before the new season begins.

PGA TOUR University Top 10 Preseason Ranking for Class of 2025

1. Preston Summerhays | Arizona State
2. Omar Morales | UCLA
3. Brendan Valdes | Auburn
4. Calum Scott | Texas Tech
5. Jackson Van Parris |Vanderbilt
6. Jackson Buchanan | Illinois
7. David Ford | North Carolina
8. Ian Gilligan | Florida
9. Josele Ballester | Arizona State
10. Phichaksn Maichon | Texas A&M

Summerhays, a Scottsdale native, is coming off a year in which he earned PING GCAA All-America third-team honors in 2023-24, was a Pac-12 Golfer of the Week and is the first Sun Devil since golf superstar Jon Rahm to win the Thunderbird Collegiate in back-to-back seasons. Overall in his collegiate career at ASU, Summerhays has played 112 rounds with a career stroke average of 71.85 and was a first-team All-American in 2022-23.

For Ballester, he is a three-time All-American honorable mention in his first three seasons as a Sun Devil. Last season, he had finished with a stroke average of 71.05 and clinched four top-10 tournament finishes. In a battle to the end, the Spaniard Ballester was able to narrowly beat Iowa sophomore Noah Kent 2 up to capture the 2024 U.S. Amateur Championship on Aug. 18.

Arizona State is the lone school in the country to have more than one golfer finish in the top 10 of the preseason rankings and is tied with UCLA, North Carolina and Oklahoma with two players in the top 25.

PGA TOUR University collaborates with World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®) in establishing these rankings based on each golfer’s performances in the past two years. To qualify, the two organizations analyze NCAA Division-I men’s team competitions, official PGA TOUR tournaments and certain DP World Tour events.

Whoever finishes first place in the final PGA TOUR University Ranking in May 2025 will earn PGA TOUR membership.