Hayden Clingaman
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- Height:
- 6-4
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- Weight:
- 180
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- Hometown:
- Stryker, Ohio
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- High School:
- Stryker
Bio
Junior (2019-20): Team's top finisher in all five tournaments during the fall of 2019... Steady player who shot between 77 and 84 over nine rounds in the fall... Finished at 80 or better five times in fall competitions with an average of 81.2... Fired an 80 to tie for eighth place in the Lourdes Invitational's 65-player field at Legacy Golf Club (Ottawa Lake, Mich.) on Sept. 25, 2019.
Sophomore (2018-19): Appeared in six events, playing 10 rounds... Shot an average score of 80.5 with a low round of 73... Registered a top-10 finish.
Freshman (2017-18): Played in four tournaments and six rounds in the fall season... Averaged 83.2 strokes per round... Shot a season-best 76 at the Jon P. Spiess Invitational... Played in four events and eight rounds during the spring campaign... Averaged 78.8 shots per round, finishing second on the team... Carded a season-best 73 on day two of the Heartland Collegiate Conference Championship.
Prep: Extremely involved at nearby Stryker High School, where he was senior class vice president and junior class president... Member of the National Honor Society and Fellowship of Christian Athletes... Earned four varsity letters in golf and three in basketball... Named a top scholar as a senior with a 3.87 grade-point average.
Personal: Son of Jamie and Dawn Clingaman... Majoring in accounting... Comes from a family of golfers... Chosen as the Northwest Ohio Junior Golf Association Player of the Year after winning five times in eight events during the summer of 2016... Admires Tiger Woods... Fan of the Detroit Lions and Boston Celtics.
News mentions
DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Defiance College men’s and women’s golf teams were set to begin play during Spring Break in mid-March – even traveling to their opening event in North Carolina – before the coronavirus caused the cancellation of both the opening tournament and later their 2020 spring seasons.
CARMEL, Ind. – Heading into the upcoming spring season, the Defiance College men’s golf team is picked to finish eighth this year among the nine Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference squads, according to the 2020 HCAC Men’s Golf Preseason Poll. The poll was comprised in a vote of the conference’s head coaches and released by the HCAC office on Wednesday afternoon.
WAUSEON, Ohio – The Defiance College men’s golf team wrapped up the 2019 fall season on Saturday afternoon as they hosted the Defiance College Fall Invitational. A field of four schools took on two rounds at nearby Ironwood Golf Course.
OTTAWA LAKE, Mich. - A midweek trip for Defiance College men's golf saw the Yellow Jackets leave the Lourdes Invitational with Hayden Clingaman () recording a top ten finish on Wednesday afternoon.
HOWELL, Mich. - The Defiance College men's golf team made the journey north on Tuesday morning for the Cleary University Invitational. Three Yellow Jackets competed in the event with Hayden Clingaman (Stryker / Stryker) pacing the way.
FINDLAY, Ohio - The Defiance College men's golf team took to the road Saturday to compete in the Ohio Cup at Red Hawk Run Golf Course.
LIMA, OHIO - The Defiance College men's golf team teed off their 2019 fall season Friday morning as they traveled to Hidden Creek Golf for the UNOH Invitational. As a team, DC landed ninth of nine teams.