2020-21 Men's Golf
Austin Liu
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 150
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Oak Park, CA
- High School:
- Oak Park HS
2021-22 -- Finished tied for second on the team in scoring with a 74.3 average ... competed in all 11 tournaments as a junior, posting two top-20 finishes and nine rounds of par or better ... best finish was fifth place in the Orange County Collegiate with rounds of 79. 69 and 72 ... also was 20th in Husky Invitational with a 73, 70 and 73 ... best round of year was a 68, accomplished twice, at the Windon Memorial and The Goodwin ... enters fourth season at Cal Poly with a 74.34 career scoring average over 77 rounds with five top-20 finishes and 22 rounds of par or better ... for the second straight year was named a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America ... also named to Big West Conference All-Academic Team a second time.
2020-21 -- Cal Poly's top golfer with 74.0 scoring average in second year with program ... played in all eight tournaments with a pair of top-10 finishes and nine rounds of par or better, including a 67 in final round of The Goodwin ... added a 69 in final round of The Prestige ... best finish was a tie for sixth place in season-opening Orange County Collegiate Classic ... was seventh in Big West Conference Championship ... named a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America ... also named to Big West Conference All-Academic Team.
2019-20 -- As a true freshman, played in all 21 rounds before season was cut short due to COVID-19 pandemic ... averaged 74.7 strokes per round with six rounds of par or better, including two in the 60s ... carded a 66 in the second round of The Joust at Goose Creek hosted by California Baptist and a 68 in the opening round of the Orange County Collegiate Classic hosted by Cal State Fullerton ... best finish was a tie for 19th place in the Hoakalei Country Club Invitational hosted by Hawai'i ... also was 27th in The Joust at Goose Creek ... ranked No. 394 among 448 NCAA Division I golfers in the PGA TOUR University poll in October 2020.
High School -- A 2019 graduate of Oak Park High School, Liu is a four-time first-team All-Coastal Canyon League honoree, including league MVP as a sophomore, and twice served as team captain ... also landed on the Coastal Canyon League's All-Academic Team four times with a 3.8 unweighted grade-point average ... named Los Angeles Daily News 2019 Prep Golfer of the Year ... averaged a score of 73.8 in 13 league matches in 2019 before taking his game to another level in the postseason, where he averaged 71 and shot a total of 3-under in four matches ... also led Oak Park to its first CIF-Southern Section Central Coast Division team title in program history ... Liu’s postseason run included a 2-under 70 performance at Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena to qualify for the CIF State Championship ... finished sixth in CIF-Southern Section Individual Finals and tied for third in the SoCal Regional State Qualifier ... graduated with high honors after 14 semesters of Honors/AP classes and finished with a 3.7 unweighted GPA ... qualified for the 2018 U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach, earned a spot on the 2017 American Junior Golf Association's All-Star Team and won an AJGA tournament at Chateau Elan Golf Club in Braselton, Georgia ... earned four AJGA top-10 finishes in 2017 and 2018 as well as nine top-10 finishes in Toyota Tour Cup events ... Liu was ninth in the AJGA Stacy Lewis Junior All-Star Invitational and made appearances in the AJGA Justin Rose Junior All-Star Invitational, AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions and AJGA Simplify Boys Championship as well as in the Western Junior Amateur ... also visited University of San Diego and UC Berkeley before choosing to continue his golf and academic career at Cal Poly because of "its great computer science program, location and atmosphere."
