ATLANTA—As the fall season winds down, the Oglethorpe men's golf team is ranked No. 10 in both the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Coaches Poll and the clippd.scoreboard.com national rankings poll.

In four major tournaments this fall, Oglethorpe earned three top-four finishes. This included a top-three finish at the NCAA Division III Fall Preview with 24 of the top teams in the country in attendance at The Mission Inn & Resort, site of the 2026 NCAA Championships.

"We had a good fall," commented Head Coach Jim Owen. "Three top-four finishes in three major events would lend you to believe we had a top-five fall season, but our final event of the fall we stumbled to a 14th-place finish which derailed our top-five fall season."

Oglethorpe posted a 286.6 adjusted scoring average over 12 competitive rounds and ended the fall with a cumulative record of 51 wins, 21 losses and one tie. Oglethorpe is currently No. 6 in the south region through the fall.

Petrel 2025 All-American Jackson Hiller did much of the heavy lifting for the squad this fall by winning medalist honors in two of his four starts. Hiller added a third top-10 with his sixth-place finish at Oglethorpe's West Pines Collegiate.

Hiller finished in a four-way tie for medalist at the season's first event at Forest Oaks in Greensboro, North Carolina, with rounds of 72-68-70=210. A week later at the NCAA Fall Preview, Hiller, behind a 19-birdie barrage, fired a 13 under (66-68-68) 202 to win by five strokes.

Hiller's great fall season has him ranked No. 2 in the clippd.scoreboard national rankings with a spectacular 333-64-10 overall record and a 69.6 adjusted scoring average. Hiller's score counted in 12 of 12 rounds this fall for the Petrel junior.

Junior Ryan Dunn's fall season earned him a No. 98 national rank, No. 37 region rank and an overall record of 278-113-16 that produced a 71.8 adjusted scoring average. Dunn carded a sixth-place finish at the West Pines Collegiate with rounds of 73-68-73=214 for his best finish of the fall. Dunn's score contributed in all 12 rounds in the fall.

Freshman Barton Abstein steadied the middle of the lineup all throughout the fall season and ended the fall ranked No. 146 nationally and No. 49 in the region. He posted a 72.4 scoring average and totaled a 248-143-16 overall record.

Impressively, Abstein's score also counted in 12 of 12 team rounds this fall. Abstein earned a top-50 or better finish in all four starts.

Junior Diego Passos completed the fall season No. 191 in the national rankings, No. 62 in the region, and he had a 73.6 adjusted scoring average. Passos finished 22nd in the 120-player field at The Mission Inn & Resort and 27th of 96 in the Gate City Invitational in Greensboro, North Carolina, for his high watermarks.

Sophomore Corbin Scott had a season best 34th-place finish at Oglethorpe's West Pines Collegiate with rounds of 73-72-76=221. He posted a 74.9 scoring average.

"The spring season starts in early March 2026 with three consecutive events, first in Savannah, Georgia, then right to Pinehurst, North Carolina, and then to our 30-team event at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in late March," noted Owen. "We have to find some consistency up and down the lineup this spring. We play eight competition rounds in 22 days to start March, and we have to be ready from day one."