For the second time in two years, a Colorado State University men’s golfer has been named a candidate for the Byron Nelson Award, which is given to a graduating senior and is based on a golfer’s entire college career and college academic record, as well as how he has displayed the character and integrity that Byron Nelson exemplified during his lifetime. Particular consideration is given to a nominee’s good citizenship.
Cameron Harrell of Colorado Springs was named one of the five national finalists for the 2015 Nelson Award, which is presented by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
One of the 10 nominees for this year’s Nelson Award, announced on Wednesday, is CSU’s Dominic Kieffer, who appopriately hails from Byron, Minn.
So far this college season, Kieffer has three top-six individual finishes to his credit, including a second and a third. But the senior is currently nursing an ankle injury.
Other nominees for the Nelson Award are South Carolina’s Will Starke, Clemson’s Stephen Behr Jr., UNLV’s AJ McInerney, Oklahoma State’s Jordan Niebrugge, Michigan’s Chris O’Neill, Washington’s Jonathan Sanders, Louisville’s Robin Sciot-Siegrist and two players from Illinois, Charlie Danielson and Alex Burge.
