Grinnell Receives Mark Laesch Award

The Grinnell College men's golf team showed significant improvement last season, and the Pioneers have been rewarded for that feat.
 
The Golf Coaches Association of America today announced Grinnell as the NCAA Division III winner of the 2022 Mark Laesch Award, which is based on improvement in adjusted stroke average per round from the 2020-21 season to the 2021-22 season.
 
Grinnell's season average between the two seasons improved by 39.34 strokes. Coach Brian Jaworski's squad had a stroke average of 322.67 in 2021-22, which is the best for the program since the 2015-16 season.
 
Grinnell's improvement was the best of the seven divisions recognized with the award. Other winners were Alabama A&M (NCAA Division I and HBCU, 27.88 strokes), Minnesota Crookston (NCAA Division II, 17.63), Lewis-Clark State (NAIA, 12.58), Andrew College (NJCAA Division I, 3.75), and Hesston (NJCAA Division  II, 5.35).
 
Laesch founded Golfstat in 1984, and his programs essentially took the guesswork out of college golf. Golfstat provided new methods for NCAA coaches and committees to advance the game from live scoring to detailed statistics and rankings.

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