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John Daly II Season 2024-25

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HometownClearwater, Fla.


» 2025 Southern Amateur Champion
» Won twice as a Razorback: 2025 Columbia Spring Invitational and the 2025 Blessings Collegiate Invitational.
» 71.967 career scoring average is 6th on the UA all-time list and his 8 career eagles tie for 10th on the UA all-time list
» 2x SEC Golfer of the Week
» 4x SEC Academic Honor Roll
» Made the cut and finished T37 (70-67-70-74) at the PGA TOUR's 2026 Puerto Rico Open
» Reached the quarterfinals at the 2025 U.S. Amateur
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Teamed with his father, former Razorback All-American and two-time major champion John Daly, to win the 2021 PNC Challenge with an event-record score of 27-under par for 36 holes ... The duo was runners-up in 2018, 2022 and 2025.

2025-26 (Sr.)
» SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll
» SEC Golfer of the Week (10/8)
1 of 2 Razorbacks to play in all 12 events ... Finished third on the team with a 71.51 scoring average, which ranks 17th on the school's single-season list ... Shot 67-71-69 to finish runner-up at the Bearcat Invitational... Followed that by winning the Blessings Collegiate Invitational (73-772-69), helping the Hogs to the team title ... Tabbed SEC Golfer of the Week thanks to his win at the BCI ... After his strong fall, opened the spring on the Ben Hogan Award watch list ... Also helped Arkansas win team titles at the Watersound Invitational and All-American Intercollegiate ... Tied for fourth at the All-American ... Tied for 13th (68-69-72) at the NCAA Corvallis Regional to help the Hogs advance to the NCAA Championship.

2024-25 (Jr.)
» SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll
» SEC co-Golfer of the Week (4/2)
Played in 10 of the 12 events and led the team in scoring at 72.21 ... Had an impressive spring campaign, posting a 71.3 scoring average with a win ... That win, his first collegiate medalist honor, came at the Columbia Spring Invitational to earn SEC co-Golfer of the Week honors ... Was tied with two others ut was declared champion on a scorecard playoff ... Shot 70-69 for a 1-under 139 in the 36-hole event ... After the win, lead the team with an eighht-place finish at the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial (73-66-74) ... Opened the spring with a fourth-place finish at the Palmas de Mar Collegiate, helping the team repeat as champions ...

2023-24 (R-So.)
» SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

Played in eight events (seven in the lineup) and posted a 71.78 scoring average (23 rounds, 1,651 strokes) ... The scoring average is the 24th-best season average by a Razorback ... Was the only Razorback to post top 20 finishes in the first six events of the year, including three top 15's with two top 10's ... Tied for 11th at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational with a par of even=par rounds of 72 ... Followed that with back-to-back top 10's, including a T-10 at the Jackon T. Stephens Cup (70-67-69=2016 / -10) and a T-7 to open the spring season at the Palmas Del Mar Collegiate (71-68-69=208 / -8) ... Fired a season-high 18 birdies at Palmas Del Mar to help the Razorbacks win ... Had a season-high 39 pars to tie for 0th at the Cabo Collegiate (69-70-75=214 / +1) ... In the summer of 2024, shot 68 at Brook Hollow Golf Club (Dallas) and survived a 5-of-4 playoff to qualify for the U.S. Amateur.

2022-23 (So.)
Redshirted.

2021-22 (Fr.)
» SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
Played as an individual in the Blessings Collegiate Invitational ... Shot a second-round 68 at the BCI and finished 49th (83-68-78).

Prior to Arkansas:
Named 2021 second team Rolex Junior All-American and 2020 honorable mention Rolex Junior All-American and, through August 2021, was 29th on the Rolex American Junior Golf Association rankings … Additionally, the AJGA has him as the third-ranked junior in the state of Florida … May of 2020, finished runner-up in the Dye Junior Golf Invitational, played at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind. – the site of his father’s 1991 PGA Championship win … The event featured 33 of the top high school boys players in the country ... Had seven AJGA top 10's from Sept. 2020 to July 2021, including:
• Won the Sung Hyun Park Junior Championship (71-69-71=211)
• Tied for second (tied for the lead after regulation, lost in a playoff) at the AJGA Junior Championship benefiting Make-A-Wish Foundation (73-66=139/-5).
• Fifth at the Justin Thomas Junior Championship (69-71=210/-3).
• Fifth at the AJGA Junior at Innisbrook (75-73-70=218/+2)
• Tied for sixth at the Dustin Johnson World Junior (74-70-73=217)
• Seventh at the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods (75-70-68=213)
• Sixth at the Jr Orange Bowl Golf (73-72-71-69=285
Since the 2016-17 golf season, won 10 times on the International Junior Golf Tour (IJGT) ... September 2020, won IJGT Fall Kickoff event at Bishops Gate Golf Academy (66-70-68=204) ... October 2020, placed sixth in the IJGT Columbus Day Open (74-67-81+222) ... Won the 2019 IJGT Florida Junior at Falcon’s Fire while posting runner-up finishes at the 2019 Island Classic at Bear Creek and the 2020 Presidents Day Classic.

Personal: Son of John Daly – a Razorback golfer from 1984-87 and two-time major champion, including the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 Open Championship –  and Sherrie Miller … The Dalys have played in nine PNC Championships, winning in 2021 and finishing runner-up in 2018 and 2022 while placing fifth in 2019 and 2023; eighth in 2016, 2020 and 2025; and ninth in 2017.
John Daly II

Sr.
2025-26

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2023-24

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So. (3)
2022-23

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Fr. (4)
2021-22

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