2005-06 Men's Golf Roster
Edward McGlasson
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Orange, Calif.
- High School:
- Elmodena
College?Career Notes: He tied for the third most rounds played in Colorado history, 144, including three GCAA Match Play Championship rounds. His career stroke average of 73.54 ranked third all-time for the Buffaloes, behind only one-time teammate Kane Webber (72.90) and Scott Petersen (74.37); it was the second best figure for 100-plus rounds other than Webber. He set the school record for low single round (63), as well as the most under par (-8) for 18 holes. By holding both the low gross score and most-under-par records for a single round, he is the first player to solely own both marks since Hale Irwin did so between 1967 and 1981. He had 13 top 10 tournament finishes, the sixth most by a Buff, and had 20 top 20 finishes, the seventh most. He had a school record six straight top 10 finishes over the course of his senior season. He finished his career by posting the top CU score in 20 of the school’s last 25 tournaments dating back to his junior year.
2005-06 (Sr.): He was named CU’s Male Athlete of the Year for all sports at the school’s annual CUSPY (CU Sports Performers of the Year) Awards on May. He earned honorable mention All-America honors, as he was named to both the PING/Golf Coaches Association of America and Golfweek/Titleist teams (62 and 50 players selected overall on first, second, third and H.M. teams, respectively). He earned PING/GCAA All-Central Region honors for the second straight year, just the second Buffalo to accomplish that feat, as he was also just the second CU player to earn All-Big 12 and All-Big 12 Tournament Team honors in the same season. For the year, he posted a 72.42 stroke average, the third best figure in CU history, trailing only Webber (71.46 in 2003-04) and the legendary Hale Irwin (72.04 in 1965-66). His spring stroke average of 71.85 was the second best behind Webber’s 71.30 recorded in 2004. On the year, he led the Buffaloes in almost every major statistical category, including rounds counting toward team scoring (all 35 that applied), top five, 10 and 20 finishes (5, 8 and 9, respectively), rounds in the 60s (5), subpar rounds (12), even-par rounds (6), first round scoring (71.23), final round scoring (74.42), par 3 scoring (3.17), par 4 scoring (4.12), par 5 scoring (4.71), eagles (5), birdies (129), greens in regulation (59.9%) and in double-bogey free rounds (28). In the final competition of the fall, he won his first collegiate tournament, overcoming cold, wind and rain to capture the Tunica National Intercollegiate in Mississippi. His 72-72-76?220 scorecard was good for a one-stroke victory, and in leading CU to a sixth place team finish, he dedicated the win to CU head coach Mark Simpson, who was battling cancer and would succumb to the disease 35 days later. He earned CU Athlete-of-the-Week honors for the win, but was snubbed by the conference for its monthly honor. That win started a school record streak of six straight top 10 finishes, highlighted by a fourth place finish in the Courtyard By Marriott Intercollegiate, which featured an opening round 64 (8-under par, tying his own school mark for most strokes under par in a single round). He tied for fourth in the Big 12 Championships (75-69-70?214), the best finish by a Buff in seven years in the league meet. He tied for 30th in the NCAA Central Regional, just missing advancing as an individual to the NCAA Finals. Also in the fall, he tied for fourth in the Pepperdine Club Glove Intercollegiate (223, +7) and was 17th in The Prestige At PGA West (219, +3), the latter of which included his best fall individual round, an opening 5-under 67.
2004-05 (Jr.): He assumed the role as the team’s No. 1 man, leading the team in stroke average with a 73.32 figure for 34 rounds, the 11th best season number in Colorado history; his spring stroke average of 73.41 was the ninth best in school annals. His lead over the runner-up average (2.04 strokes) was the sixth largest in school history. He was CU’s top performer in nine of the 11 major tournaments, and when the team did not qualify for the NCAA Regionals, he participated as an individual in the Central Regional, where he tied for 72nd with a 73-77-73?223 (+7) effort. He had six top 25 finishes on the year, including three top 12 efforts and the two best in his first three years as a collegian: he tied for fifth at The Prestige At PGA West (223, +7) to end the fall (when he peaked at being the No. 87 ranked player in Division I by GolfStat); he was third in CU’s Stevinson Ranch Invitational in March (215, -1), his best spring finish. In the first tournament of the spring, he recorded a school record 63 in the second round of the PING-Arizona Intercollegiate, breaking by one stroke the 15-year old record set by John Nyuli in 1989. The round, which was also complicated by being played over two days, was 8-under par on the 6,793-yard, par 71 Arizona National Golf Club course, topping the old school best of 7-under par which had been accomplished on three occasions, first by Hale Irwin (in the 1967 NCAA Championships), and then by Steve Jones and John Lindberg. That 63 followed a 79, as McGlasson owns two of the top four single-round turnarounds in Buff annals. In CU’s next meet, the Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate, he scored the first hole-in-one in his career, and only the eighth by a Buffalo in competition. He finished 7-under par in Hawaii (209), tying the fifth-best 54-hole score in school history on a par-72 layout. He earned PING All-Central Region honors and was CU’s nomination for Big 12 Golfer-of-the-Month on five occasions.
2003-04 (Soph.): There was no sophomore slump for McGlasson, who more than picked up where he left off as a freshman in having one of the finest soph seasons in CU history. He was second on the team in stroke average (73.85), a number that ranked him 21st in the Big 12 Conference as he flirted with the school best by a sophomore. His spring mark of 73.93 was also second best on the team, when he posted his two best career finishes at the time, ninth place efforts at the Western Intercollegiate and CU’s Stevinson Ranch Invitational, as well as a most respectable tie for 20th place at the Big 12 Championships with a 54-hole score of 224. He owned strong first (73.00) and second (73.08) round averages, as he was one of two Buffs to have played in all 13 tournaments for the year. He had 31 of his 39 rounds count toward team scoring, and his four top 20 finishes tied for the third most on the team. An opening round 67 in Stanford’s The Nelson during the fall was his collegiate best round as an underclassman, and it paved the way for him to tie for 10th with a 209 (-4) total.
2002-03 (Fr.): He competed as a true freshman on CU’s traveling squad and had quite a debut. His 33 rounds were the third most in school history for a true freshman (Terry Kahl had 39 in 1976-77 and Matthew Zions had 37 in 1998-99), and the fourth most by a freshman overall. He finished second on the team in stroke average (74.70), which was the fifth lowest number ever recorded by any CU true freshman, as 30 of his 33 rounds counted toward team scoring, second best by a frosh in Buff annals. He posted four top 20 finishes, second most on the team, and led the Buffs overall in three different meets including two in the spring: his 218 (+2) paced CU in its own Stevinson Ranch Invitational as he tied for 14th, and a 213 (-3) led all Buff golfers at Arizona State’s Thunderbird Invitational (tie-36th). His other top 20 effort was a tie for 19th at the Big 12 Conference championships, only the eighth time a CU freshman placed in the top 20 of a conference meet (dating back to when CU joined the Big Seven in 1948). In the fall, he posted two top 20 finishes out of the gate in his collegiate career: he tied for 18th at the KSU Colbert, in tough conditions on a course set borderline ridiculous, and came back with a 1-under 212 at Stanford’s “The Nelson” to tie for 14th three weeks later. At The Prestige, he recorded an opening round 87, but came right back with a 2-under 70, with the 17-shot improvement the second best in school history between rounds of the same tournament. He played in all five fall tournaments as well as in the inaugural GCAA Match Play Championships, where he posted a 1-2-0 record in matches against three top 100 golfers nationally.
High School?He lettered four times in the golf at Elmodena High School in Orange, Calif., where he was the school’s No. 1 man since his freshman year. He was a four-time all-league selection, and earned first-team all-county honors as a junior and senior, when he captured back-to-back league championships, including a record low score as a senior (140). He set a school record as a senior for low stroke average (36.5 for nine holes).
Other?2005: Cruised to a 7-stroke victory in the U.S. Amateur Public Links qualifying in Chino, Calif., as he posted a 15-under par 62-67?129 scorecard at Los Serranos Country Club; the 62 set a course record as he had 13 birdies and an eagle (on a short par-4) and no bogeys on the day. It was the low score of all eight qualifying locations. In the actual championship in Lebanon, Ohio, he missed the cut by four strokes with an 81-72?153 effort. He finished second in the stroke play qualifying of the Cal State Amateur at Pebble Beach (71-70-72?213, -3); he won two matches before losing in the quarterfinals of the match play portion. He was second in his sectional qualifying for the U.S. Amateur (6-under 138), and went on to finish 93rd (149; missing the cut). He also tied for 12th in local U.S. Open qualifying (1-under 71). He tied for 27th in the Pacific Coast Amateur in Bandon, Ore. (73-77-73-74?297, +11); the same score tied him for 26th in the Scratch Players Championship near Monterey, Calif. (73-72-74-78?297, +9). He tied for 32nd overall (and for the ninth low amateur) in the Colorado Open at Green Valley Ranch (72-71-73-70?286, -2). 2004: He finished second in the Western Amateur Qualifier (67), but shot 71-75?146 to miss the cut in the event itself. He tied for ninth in the Scratch Players Championship (73-73-76-73?295, +7) and was an alternate for the U.S. Amateur (tying for sixth in the final qualifier with a 2-under 146); those results led him to a ranking of 124th among all amateurs in the nation at the end of the summer. 2003: He just missed advancing past of the first stage of U.S. Open sectional qualifying, as a 2-under par 70 at Denver’s Buffalo Run Golf Course tied for 13th in being just one shot off the pace. He qualified for and played in the U.S. Amateur in Oakmont, Pa., where his 77-72?149 (+9) effort tied for 80th and just missed the cut for match play by two strokes. He also tied for 12th in the SCGA Southern Cal Amateur and was 29th in the Scratch Players Championship (69-76-74?219, +3). 2002: Qualified and played in the Western Amateur, where he made the cut and tied for 39th with a 71-70-75-74?290 scorecard at the Point O’Woods Golf & Country Club in Benton Harbor, Mich. He also tied for 15th in the AJGA Greensboro Chrysler Classic (71-72-70-72?285). 2001: He claimed all the major awards for the Southern California PGA Junior Tour, including player of the year, Tournament of Champions medalist (73-69?142) and stroke average champion. He tied for 12th in the AJGA Mission Hills Championship (73-71-72?216), and placed 17th in the AJGA Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Classic (75-72-76?223).
Best Career Round In Competition?62 (June 2005, U.S. Public Links Qualifier, Los Serranos C.C., Chino, Calif.; and August 2001, as a member of the Tustin Ranch Junior Team at the par-71 Costa Mesa CC).
Academics?He is majoring in business at Colorado. He made the Leeds School of Business Dean’s List in 2003. As a prep, he earned the National Army Scholar-Athlete Distinction Award.
Personal?Born August 28, 1983 in Orange County, Calif. (he is Edward McGlasson IV). Hobbies include photography and body boarding. Father (Ed) played college football at Youngstown State and professionally with both the Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants. He is a member of CU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
Statistics Overall------- Spring------ Fall--------
Season Rd Strokes Avg. Lo Hi Rd Strk Avg. Rd Strk Avg.
2002-03 33 2465 74.70 69 87 18 1337 74.28 15 1128 75.20
2003-04 39 2880 73.85 67 82 27 1996 73.93 12 884 73.67
2004-05 34 2493 73.32 63 81 22 1615 73.27 12 878 73.17
2005-06 38 2752 72.42 64 77 26 1868 71.85 12 884 73.67
Totals 144 10590 73.54 63 87 93 6816 73.29 51 3774 74.00
Rounds Toward Team Scoring: 126 of 138 (91.3%).
Stroke Count In Relation To Par (+312/+2.17): +107/+3.24 (2002-03); +96/+2.46 (2003-04); +75/+2.21 (2004-05); +34/+0.89 (2005-06).
Finishes?Wins: 1 Top 5: 6 Top 10: 13 Top 20: 20
Fall 2002
UNM Tucker Invitational...................... 76-76-81?233 + 17 t78th
KSU Jim Colbert Intercollegiate.......... 75-77-80?232 + 16 t18th
UC Alister MacKenzie Invitational...... 69-76-74?219 + 6 t37th
Stanford’s The Nelson....................... 72-71-69?212 - 1 t14th
The Prestige....................................... 87-70-75?232 + 16 t64th
GCAA Match Play Championships..... 1-2-0 (L-W-L)
Spring 2003
Matlock Collegiate Classic.................. 72-76-75?223 + 7 t33rd
Puerto Rico Classic............................. 76-75-75?226 + 10 t45th
CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational........ 72-74-72?218 + 2 t14th
ASU Sun Devil-Thunderbird Invit........ 70-72-71?213 - 3 t36th
Big 12 Championships........................ 76-81-75?232 + 22 t19th
The Maxwell....................................... 76-72-77?225 + 15 t57th
Fall 2003
Pepperdine CG Intercollegiate........... 76-74-78?228 + 12 t32nd Stanford’s “The Nelson”.................... 67-72-70?209 - 4 t10th The Prestige At PGA West................ 73-76-78?227 + 11 t49th
Spring 2004
PING-Arizona Intercollegiate............ 76-67-73?216 + 3 t35th
John Burns Intercollegiate................ 72-76-73?221 + 5 t68th
Louisiana Classics........................... 76-73-79?228 + 12 t54th
Western Intercollegiate.................... 71-70-73?214 + 4 t9th
CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational...... 69-71-74?214 - 2 9th
Purdue Boilermaker Invitational........ 74-73-72?219 + 3 t21st
Big 12 Championships...................... 73-74-77?224 + 14 t20th
Perry Maxwell Intercollegiate........... 74-71-79?224 + 14 t68th
NCAA Central Regional.................... 76-78-82?236 + 20 t84th
Fall 2004
Notre Dame Invitational..................... 72-78-70?220 + 10 t12th
UNM Tucker Invitational.................... 67-76-77?220 + 4 t24th
Stanford’s “The Nelson”................... 77-67-71?215 + 8 t31st
The Prestige At PGA West............... 77-74-72?223 + 7 t5th
Spring 2005
PING-Arizona Intercollegiate............ 79-63-74?216 + 3 t25th
Taylor Made/Waikoloa Inter. ............ 67-73-69?209 - 7 t37th
Louisiana Classics........................... 74-81?155 + 11 t56th
CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational...... 70-69-76?215 - 1 t3rd
Courtyard by Marriott Intercollegiate 73-73?146 + 2 t33rd
Big 12 Championships...................... 76-77-75?228 + 12 t22nd
The Maxwell..................................... 77-73-73?223 + 13 t38th
*NCAA Central Regional................... 73-77-73?223 + 13 t72nd
Fall 2005
UNM Tucker Invitational..................... 73-73-76?222 + 6 t47th
Pepperdine C. G. Intercollegiate........ 76-71-76?223 + 7 4th
The Prestige At PGA West................ 67-75-77?219 + 3 t17th
Tunica National Intercollegiate........... 72-72-76?220 + 4 1st
Spring 2006 Hawai’i-Hilo Intercollegiate................. 66-71-71?208 - 5 t5th Houston All-American........................ 70-71-74?215 - 1 t7th Louisiana Classics............................. 71-70-73?214 - 2 t10th CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational........ 74-74?148 + 4 t6th *Courtyard/Marriott Intercollegiate...... 64-70-76?210 - 6 4th Texas A&M Aggie Invitational............. 75-74-77?226 +10 t21st Big 12 Championships........................ 75-69-70?214 + 4 t4th Maxwell Intercollegiate....................... 70-66-77?213 + 3 t22nd NCAA Central Regional...................... 73-77-70?220 + 7 t30th
(*?competed individually.)
