{"id":675836,"date":"2026-05-31T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:40:10","slug":"this-mid-major-golfer-has-now-played-91-straight-holes-without-a-bogey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675836\/","title":{"rendered":"This mid-major golfer has now played 91 straight holes without a bogey"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013 Remember the Mayan Codices? What about Confucius\u2019 Sixth Classic, or Ernest Hemingway\u2019s World War I manuscripts?<\/p>\n

No? Well, nobody does because they were lost over time.<\/p>\n

Same goes for the complete NCAA golf record books, which means Malan Potgieter has probably yet unofficially done something that no college golfer has accomplished before him.<\/p>\n

The Louisiana senior, who hails from Kirkwood, South Africa, but is not related to the PGA Tour\u2019s Aldrich Potgieter, carded his second straight 4-under 68 Saturday at the NCAA Championship to run his bogey-free streak to 91 holes.<\/p>\n

Potgieter, whose streak began on his final hole of the Sun Belt Championship and continued through a flawless NCAA Athens Regional, broke what was believed to be the NCAA record of 74 holes, set by Alabama\u2019s Bobby Wyatt at the 2014 Mason Rudolph Championship, SEC Championship and one hole of his regional. Tiger Woods holds the men\u2019s professional record with 110 straight while Jin Young Ko went 114 consecutive without dropping a shot in 2019.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, Potgieter played these past two days at Omni La Costa alongside Alabama\u2019s William Jennings, a fellow competing individual who had head coach Jay Seawell, Wyatt\u2019s college coach, walking with him. Seawell and several other top coaches sought out Potgieter, who pronounces his first name Ma-LAWN, afterward to give the mid-major standout some kudos.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s four interviews, including one with Golf Channel, were easily the most Potgieter has done in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis all just reinforces that I\u2019m a good ball-striker and my golf IQ is pretty good,\u201d said Potgieter, who sits at 8 under for the championship, just two shots off the lead held by Arizona\u2019s Filip Jakubcik. \u201cI have a strong mind to when I am under pressure, I can stay calm and patient. It\u2019s nice to not make bogeys. Even like today, I feel like I didn\u2019t play that great, didn\u2019t make that many putts, but I\u2019m still in contention because I didn\u2019t make any bogeys.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The NCAA men\u2019s golf individual and team national champion will be crowned at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. Here\u2019s when the six-day tournament begins and how to watch on Golf Channel.<\/p>\n

The closest Potgieter came to a bogey all Saturday was on the par-4 first hole, his 10th of the round, where he drove his ball right into the fescue, hacked out short of the green and got up and down by rolling in a 5-footer. He barely sweated out the other 17 holes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m over a putt I think about it, but I think it helps me focus more,\u201d Potgieter said.<\/p>\n

Scorecards haven\u2019t always been this clean for Potgieter, who grew up in Kirkwood, a farm town of about 10,000 people where there are no stoplights and it takes about a minute and a half to drive the entire main street at 35 kmph. Big news recently was the opening of the city\u2019s first paddle course. Potgieter\u2019s home course, Kirkwood Golf Club, is nine holes with bumpy greens that, on a good day, are running 6 on the Stimpmeter. There is no range picker, so if you want to hit balls, you must go find them and hit them back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an absolute goat track,\u201d Potgieter said, \u201cbut if it wasn\u2019t for that, I wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Potgieter wasn\u2019t good enough to bypass college and go straight to the pros like the other Potgieter. (Malan is usually asked about Aldrich in interviews and has now started responding, \u201cNo, he\u2019s related to me.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a terrible putter in high school,\u201d said Potgieter, who didn\u2019t see drastic improvement on the greens until he switched to the broomstick after his sophomore year with the Ragin\u2019 Cajuns.<\/p>\n

Louisiana head coach Theo Sliman says between the ears, Potgieter is better than any player he\u2019s ever been around. When Potgieter arrived as a freshman, he did so with mature expectations. Instead of proclaiming he wanted to win conference and postseason championships right away, Potgieter had the simple of goal of improving from a 73 shooter to a 69 stroke average \u2013 and by a half shot each semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he\u2019s done it,\u201d said Sliman, referencing Potgieter\u2019s 68.7 adjusted scoring average entering nationals.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing from a small town, mid-major, being an underdog, he\u2019s educating a lot of 15-, 16-year-olds right now who have the dreams to just go to these big schools,\u201d Sliman added. \u201cYou can do it here. Look at the year he\u2019s had at a mid-major and what he\u2019s done \u2013 and he\u2019s not finished. He\u2019s got two great rounds ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013 Remember the Mayan Codices? What about Confucius\u2019 Sixth Classic, or Ernest Hemingway\u2019s World War I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-675836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}