2024-25 Men's Golf Roster
Biography
Career Totals (Through Spring, 2025):
7 events; 19 rounds
Total Strokes: 1,446
Stroke Average: 76.11
Birdies: 52 | Eagles: 1
Titles: 0
Top-5: 0 | Top-10: 0 | Top-20: 0
Low 18: 69 – Twin Oaks Intercollegiate (3/19/2024)
Low 54: 215, 2x. Last – Twin Oaks Intercollegiate (3/19/2024)
Best Finish: t-25th – Twin Oaks Intercollegiate (3/19/2024)
Awards & Honors
Spring 2024 AD Honor Roll
2023-24 AAC All-Academic Selection
2024-25 Senior
Posted 75 round score in round three of the Grier Jones Shocker Invitational
2023-24 Junior
Competed as an individual at Twin Oaks Intercollegiate in the spring...Set career lows for 18- and 54-hole scores on March 19...Recorded best finish as a Shocker at t-25th at Twin Oaks...Competed in one fall event...Notched nine birdies in lone fall contest
2022-23 Sophomore
Named to AD Honor Roll in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.
2021-22 Freshman
Competed in three fall tournaments, posting a 76.33 average score that ranked fourth on the team...finished in a tie for 37th in first career tournament at Ram Masters Invitational...shot -1 the following weekend at the Mark Simpson Invitational, including a second round 71 for his best 18 of the season...notched 25 birdies and one eagle over the course of his three fall tournaments...posted a 2-1 record at the Wyoming Desert Match Play, picking up wins against Boise State and Air Force...named to the AD's Honor Roll in both Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, when he recorded a 4.0 GPA...named to AAC All-Academic Team.
High School
Played a handful of Czech Golf Tour events in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, finishing as high as fourth-place…Logged a 12th-place showing at the Czech PGA Tour Grand Final while competing against professionals…Ended 2019 ranked among the top-1,000 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and No. 372 in Europe…Posted five top-10 finishes in 2019 include a runner-up performance at the Slovak Amateur Championship…Helped his team (Kuneticka Hora) to the 2019 Czech Club League title after a runner-up finish the previous year…Team also finished among the top-10 at the European Boys Team Championship…Member of U18 Czech National Team in 2018…Set a course record at Golf Club Pardubice (8-under, 64) during the team qualifying stage…Coached by Ondrej Leiser.
Personal
Son of Zuzana Balakova and Jaroslav Balatka…Has one sister, Sandra…Home course is Golf Club Liberec...Majoring in International Business.
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