Ashton McCulloch

Juan Velasquez

/ Men's Golf

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Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Kingston, Ontario
High School:
Holy Cross Catholic

2024-25 – Senior
An All-Big Ten Second Team selection ... A preseason selection to the Ben Hogan Award Watch List, recognizing the top player in college golf ... Appeared in three tournaments before missing the rest of the season with an injury ... Played nine rounds and had a team-best 69.78 scoring average ... Had all nine of his rounds count toward the team total ... Posted a pair of top-5 finishes ... The team’s top finisher in all three events he played ... Tied for fourth place at the the Folds of Honor Collegiate (9/9-11), firing a 6-under par 207 (67-69-71) ... Followed that up with a third place finish as he returned home to play in the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (9/16-17), shooting an 11-under par 205 (69-68-68) ... His 205 was the ninth-best 54-hole score in Michigan State history and the second-best mark of his career ... Represented Team Canada at the Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship in November.

2023-24 – Junior
An All-Big Ten Second Team selection ... Selected to the All-Midwest Region Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America ... Selected to the All-Big Ten Championship team ... An Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Played in 13 events and tied for second on the team in rounds played (36) ... Led the team in scoring average (70.89) and rounds counted at 98.6 percent (34.5-of-35 rounds) ... His 70.89 scoring average marked the best single-season mark in program history, topping the mark of 71.33 set by James Piot in 2021 ... Fired a 10-under par 62 in the second round of the Johnnie-O at Sea Island (3/11), setting a school record for best low-18 hole score ... Finished as the medalist at the Johnnie-O at Sea Island, his first collegiate win ... Shot a 12-under par 204 (68-62-74), tied for the sixth-lowest 54-hole tournament score in program history ... Finished among the top-5 four times, the top-10 six times and the top-20 eight times ... Led the team in nine events, including the last six of the spring season, with four top-5 finishes ... Carried a 70.44 scoring average in the spring season with four top-5 finishes and six among the top-10 ... Tied for third place at the Big Ten Championships at 5-over par 215 (71-69-75) ... Finished his junior year with a career scoring average of 71.74, the best mark in program history.

Summer 2023
Competed in the Glencoe Invitational where he finished in 7th place at 2-over par 218 … Tied for second place at the Ontario Amateur … Won the Canadian Amateur with a four-day total of 7-under par 277 (69-68-70-70), qualifying for the 118th U.S. Amateur.

2022-23 – Sophomore
Academic All-Big Ten … Finished second on the team in scoring average at 72.46 over 12 events … Posted two top-10 and three top-20 finishes … Was the Spartans’ top finisher in four events … Carded a low round of 66 at the Cal Poly Collegiate, ultimately tying for sixth place at 5-under par 211 (70-70-71) … Led the team with eagles (7) and under-par rounds (13) … Tied for 23rd place at the Big Ten Championships at 4-over par 148 (77-71) … Tied for 49th place at the NCAA Bath Regional at 3-over par 219 (68-71-80).

2021-22 – Freshman
The Big Ten Freshman of the Year and an All-Big Ten Second Team selection ... The first MSU player to be named Freshman of the Year since James Piot in 2018 and just the third in program history (PGA Tour professional Ryan Brehm won it in 2005) ... Finished third on the team in scoring average at 71.89, which ranks as the sixth-best single season mark in program history ... Played 37 rounds in 13 events ... Was the team’s top finisher in six events ... Posted two sixth place finishes, his best of the year ... Posted three top-10 finishes and nine among the top-20, including four during the fall ... Tied for sixth place at the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational at 8-under par 208 (72-69-67) and tied for sixth at the Colleton River Collegiate at 7-under par 209 (71-70-68) ... Best 54-hole score was a tie for 19th place at the Puerto Rico Classic, firing a 10-under par 206 (70-68-68) ... Tied for seventh place at the Big Ten Championships at 8-over par 224 (72-74-78) ... Finished in 57th place at the NCAA Bryan Regional at 13-over par 229 (76-74-79).

Prior to MSU
Won the 119th British Columbia Amateur Championship in July 2021 as well as the 2021 Glencoe Men’s Invitational … Member National Team Canada Junior Squad and placed second at the Squad’s Selection Camp, which included carding a final round 3-under-par 69 … Tied for fourth place at the 2021 Golf Ontario Men’s Amateur Championship … Won the 2019 Provincial Ontario Junior (U19) Boys Championship, which included carding two rounds in the 60s … Placed 13th at the 2019 Canadian Junior (U19) Boys Championship … Captured the Golf Canada Future Links Fall Series in 2019 … Played in the 2020 PGA Mackenzie Tour Canada life Series at TPC Toronto Osprey Valley … Took fourth place in the Provincial Ontario Men’s Amateur championship in 2020 … Captured three individual regional titles in leading Holy Cross Catholic High School to three straight team regional titles his freshmen through junior seasons … Three-time high school team MVP (did not complete for his high school team as a senior).