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Christopher Gotterup
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Little Silver, N.J.
- High School:
- Christian Brothers Academy
The Gotterup File
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Career Results
- 2019-20 Big Ten Player of the Year
- 2020 First Team All-Big Ten
- 2019-20 Big Ten Les Bolstad Award (Lowest Conference Stroke Average)
- 2020 NCAA Division I PING All-American (Third Team)
- 2020 GolfWeek All-American (Honorable Mention)
- One of the top individual amateurs in the country who finished the 2019-20 season as the highest ranked Big Ten Golfer and No. 23 nationally with a 70.39 adjusted scoring average according to GolfStat
- 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup finalist
- Owns school records in scoring average, par 3 scoring, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring and number of par or better rounds
- MGA & NJSGA Amateur Player of the Year
- 2018-19 Second Team All-Big Ten
- Highest Individual Big Ten Conference Championships finish (T/4, 2019) in program history
- All-Big Ten Championships Team (2018-19)
- 2019 New Jersey State Golf Association (NJSGA) Open Champion
- 2019 Met Amateur Champion
- 3x PING Division I Northeast All-Region selection (2018-20)
- 3x Preseason All-Big Ten selection (2019-21)
- 2019 Fighting Irish Class Champion
- 1x Big Ten Golfer of the Week
- Has appeared in 29 tournaments with more than 80 rounds played during first three collegiate seasons
- Co-led the program with 33 rounds in 2017-18 as a rookie
- Ranked No. 31 in the latest PGA Tour University standings
- Finished spring with three top-10 individual finishes and 12 rounds of even or under-par golf
- 72.00 adjusted scoring average
- T-6 result at the 2021 Big Ten Championships (April 30-May 2), which included a tournament-low four-under-par 68 in the final round
- Finished third at Rutherford Intercollegiate (April 17-18)
- Big Ten Golfer of the Week after runner-up honors at Schenkel Invitational (March 19-21)
- 2021 Big Ten Player to Watch
- Registered individuals wins against Nebraska & Ohio State at Big Ten Match Play Championship
- 2019-20 Big Ten Player of the Year
- 2020 First Team All-Big Ten
- 2019-20 Big Ten Les Bolstad Award (Lowest Conference Stroke Average)
- 2020 NCAA Division I PING All-American (Third Team)
- 2020 GolfWeek All-American (Honorable Mention)
- Finished 2019-20 season as the highest ranked Big Ten Golfer and No. 23 nationally with a 70.39 adjusted scoring average according to GolfStat
- Arnold Palmer Cup finalist
- Produced back-to-back top-15 individual results during shortened spring campaign
- Also carded two rounds of under par golf during the spring
- Closed out the spring with top-15 result at the Colleton River Collegiate (March 2-3)
- Finished tied for 10th with a three-under-par 69 at the rain-shortened TPC Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico (Feb. 23-25)
- Registered a top-100 individual victory over Maryland's Peter Knade at the Big Ten Match Play Championships (Feb. 7-8)
- No. 1 in the Big Ten Conference and 33rd nationally with a 70.11 adjusted scoring average
- Co-Ben Hogan National Golfer of the Month for October
- Preseason All-Big Ten selection
- 2019 Fighting Irish Classic champion, winning the tournament with a 14-under-par 199 (68-63-68), including a bogey-free round of 63
- Big Ten Golfer of the Week (10/9)
- Top-5 finish at the Quail Valley Intercollegiate with an 11-under-par 205 (65-71-69)
- Top-5 finish at the Grandover Collegiate in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Started all six tournaments and the Big Ten Match Play Championships in the spring
- Second Team All-Big Ten as a sophomore
- Top individual finished in all six tournaments for the Scarlet Knights in the spring
- Produced the highest Big Ten Conference individual finish in program history with his tied-for-fourth result at the conference championships in Philadelphia
- Carded a 214: 69-74-71 at Big Tens
- Closed out spring campaign with three consecutive Top 5 results
- Finished tied-for-fourth at the Rutherford
- Tied for fourth at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate
- Earned individual wins against No. 3 seed Iowa and No. 4 seed Ohio State and halved against Penn State during the Big Ten Match Play Championships
- Started all five tournaments in the fall
- Tied for sixth with a one-over-par 217 at the Mountaineer Invitational
- Finished at four-under-par (70-67-69) and tied for 12th at the OTC Collegiate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Produced a one-under-par 71 in the second round to highlight action at the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin
- Carded 18 rounds in the spring, appearing in all six tournaments
- Produced six rounds of under-par golf
- Finished the spring with an average 18-hole score of 73.88
- Led the Scarlet Knights with a tied-for-18th finish at the Big Ten Championships in Baltimore
- Produced a two-under-par 68 and a one-under-par 69 at the conference championships
- Top finisher for RU with a tied-for-34 scorecard at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate in Columbus, Ohio
- Produced the top finish for RU courtesy of back-to-back one-under-par 71's to place 14th at the Rutherford
- Carded a two-under-par 70 in the second round to highlight tied-for-18th finish at the Seahawk Intercollegiate
- Tied for 23rd, highlighted by a first-round two-over-par 74, at the Colleton River Collegiate in Bluffton, South Carolina
- Produced an even 72 in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, Arizona
- Earned a 2 Up victory over Indiana to highlight action at the 2018 Big Ten Match Play Championship in Palm Coast, Florida (Feb. 9-10).
- Appeared in all five tournaments as a member of the starting lineup
- Finished the fall with an average 18-hole score of 74.2
- Helped Rutgers finish fifth at the East Bay Deli Classic on Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- Finished in a sixth-way tie for first and concluded tied for second after a six-way playoff at the Georgetown Intercollegiate
- Carded a three-under-par 69 in the first round to highlight tied-for-10th finish at the Mountaineer Invitational
- Finished tied for 12th with a four-under-par 212 (70-72-70) at the Janney Invitational in Richmond, Virginia
- Tied for 54th at the Badger Invitational with an eight-over-par 224 (73-77-74) in Madison, Wisconsin
- All-Shore accolades at CBA by the Asbury Park Press
- Secured his second straight Monmouth County Tournament title with a record-setting 66 at Howell Park
- Produced a 69 at Charleston Springs to capture his first Shore Conference Tournament title as a junior.
- Finished tied for third at the South Non-Public A Championships
- Competed at the Tournament of Champions
- Named the Asbury Park Press Golfer of the Year as a sophomore.
| Tournament (Spring) | Rd. 1 | Rd. 2 | Rd. 3 | Total/Finish |
| Kiawah Invitational (Feb. 15-16) | 70 (-2) | 71 (-1) | 71 (-1) | 212 (-4)/T16 |
| Spartan Collegiate (March 8-9) | 73 (+1) | 67 (-5) | 77 (+5) | 217 (+1)/T23 |
| Schenkel Invitational (March 19-21) | 71 (-1) | 69 (-3) | 71 (-1) | 211 (-5)/T2 |
| Irish Creek Intercollegiate (April 2-3) | 76 (+5) | 69 (-2) | 72 (+1) | 217 (+4)/T16 |
| 2021 Rutherford Invitational (April 17-18) | 71 (E) | 70 (-1) | 68 (-3) | 209 (-4)/3 |
| 2021 Robert Kepler Intercollegiate (April 24-25) | 75 (+4) | 73 (+2) | 73 (+2) | 221 (+8)/T36 |
| 2021 Big Ten Championships (April 30-May 2) | 75 (+3) | 77 (+5) | 68 (-4) | 221 (+5)/T6 |
Career Results
| Year | Scoring Avg. | Rounds | Tournaments | T5 Finishes | T10 Finishes | T20 Finishes |
| 2019-20 (Jr.) | 69.89 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018-19 (So.) | 72.28 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017-18 (Fr.) | 74.03 | 33 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Career | 72.06 | 84 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
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