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2023-24 Men's Golf Roster

Bob McCool, Coastal Athletic Media Relations

Connor Bennink

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 170
  • Hometown Philadelphia, Pa.
  • High School Unionville High School
  • Previous School Gannon University

Biography

2023 Spring President's List
2022 Fall President's List

2023-24 (Super Senior)
  • Played in six events
  • Had a 73.44 scoring average
  • Shot a four-under at the Island Resort Intercollegiate and at the Golfweek Conference Challenge
  • Tied his career-low with a 68 at The Hayt
  • Finished the season with four rounds in the 60s and seven rounds of par or better scoring

2022-23 (Senior)
  • Played in three events
  • Had a 75.56 strokes per round average
  • Shot a four-over 220 at the Golfweek Fall Challenge
  • Shot an 11-over 227 at the General Hackler Championship

Prior to Coastal Carolina (Gannon University)
  • Played three seasons at Gannon University
  • Named to the All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) three times
  • First team All-PSAC (2021, 2022), Second team in 2020
  • 2022 PSAC Player of the Year
  • GCAA All-Atlantic Region 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Gannon Team MVP 2020 and 2022
  • Named to the PING All-Region team in 2019-20 and 2020-21
  • CoSIDA first team Academic All-America 2022
  • NCAA Academic Achievement Award 2021, 2022
  • PSAC Top-10 2022
  • PSAC Scholar Athlete 2020, 2021, 2022
  • NCAA Elite 90 Award winner 2022
  • Picked up individual wins in the Guy and Jeanne Kuhn Invitational, Malone Glenmoor Invitational, and the Erie (EDGA) Men's Amateur
  • Holds Gannon program records for lowest 18-hole round with a 6-under 65; 36-hole tournament (139), and 54-hole tournament (204)
  • Holds the Gannon career scoring record with a 74.1 and had a season-best scoring average of 72.7 during the 2021-22 season
  • Has 20 career top ten finishes, and 11 top five finishes, all in 26 events
  • Played in two NCAA National Championships, one at the PGA National and one at TPC Michigan
Personal
  • From Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Son of David and Fran Bennink
  • Has two siblings - Will and Ethan
  • Will plays golf at Wheaton College
  • Major in Accounting with a CPA concentration 

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Super Senior

    5'9" 170 lbs
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    5'9" 170 lbs
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    5'9" 170 lbs