{"id":724253,"date":"2026-06-09T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:25:12","slug":"washington-signs-seattle-u-transfer-walker-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724253\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Signs Seattle U Transfer Walker Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2013\u00a0Washington men&#8217;s golf head coach Thomas Sutton has announced his first transfer signing today in Walker Lamb. Lamb makes his way to Washington from across town at Seattle U where he spent the last two seasons with the Redhawks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are thrilled to add Walker to our team for next season,&#8221; Sutton said. &#8220;He has played solid golf throughout his first two years of college and has consistently shown the competitiveness, work ethic, and character that we value in our program.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis past season at Seattle U, Lamb led the team with a 71.9 scoring average across his 11 tournaments. He had three Top 10 finishes and placed in the Top 20 in eight events. At the Palouse Collegiate, Lamb carded an 8-under tournament and had a career-low 66 (-5) in the second round. He matched his career low in the first round of the Bandon Dunes Championship as he finished the tournament with a fifth-place finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a freshman, Lamb competed in 11 events and held a 73.0 scoring average. His best round of the season came at the WAC Championships when he fired a 68 (-4) to help the Redhawks become tournament champions as he placed fourth overall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Walker will bring great energy to our team, and we are excited about the impact he can make both on and off the golf course,&#8221; Sutton added. &#8220;We look forward to helping him continue his development and are excited to welcome him to the Husky family.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLamb spent four years at Bothell High School where he he was named KingCo Player of the Year in 2023.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor news, scores, highlights and more,\u00a0download the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/go-huskies\/id1267476611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Huskies app<\/a>\u00a0on your mobile device. Follow @UW_MGOLF on Instagram, X, Threads and Facebook and subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UW_Athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UW Athletics on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0for the latest on the Dawgs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2013\u00a0Washington men&#8217;s golf head coach Thomas Sutton has announced his first transfer signing today in Walker Lamb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-724253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}