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2022-23 Men's Golf Roster
Sample, Luke
Luke Sample
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- New York, N.Y.
- High School:
- Trevor Day School
Bio
AS A SENIOR IN 2024-25
PRIOR TO DUKE
Last updated: 6/16/25
- Started for the Blue Devils in all 12 team events
- Finished the season with a 73.25 stroke average in a total of 36 rounds
- Shot under-par in nine rounds and finished in the 60's four times
- Logged a top-five and two top-10 individual finishes
- Finished in second place with an even-par, 210, at The Clerico, his best finish of the season
- Carded a hole-in-one at The Clerico, the sixth recorded ace during an NCAA-sanctioned competition in program history
- Eclipsed 100 birdies for the fourth consecutive season, finishing his senior campaign with 103 birdies
- Started for the Blue Devils in all 12 team events
- All-ACC Academic and All-America Scholar for the second consecutive season
- Started for the Blue Devils in all 12 team events and led the team in stroke average (71.78)
- Shot under-par in 14 separate rounds, including a stretch of six in a nine-round stretch in the fall
- Logged two top-five and four top-10 individual finishes
- Best finish of the season came at the Stitch Intercollegiate, where he claimed solo second place at 3-over, 216
- Paced the team with six total eagles during the season and rolled in a team-high 127 birdies
- Competed in 13 tournaments and finished with a team-best stroke average of 71.47 in 38 rounds.
- Named to the All-ACC Academic Team for the first time in his career
- Earned GCAA All-America Scholar recognition for the first time in his career.
- Finished the year with the eighth-best stroke average for a single-season by a Duke player and moved into a tie for fifth in Duke lore for career stroke average (72.14).
- Recorded five top-five finishes, a team-best, and tied for sixth-most in a single season in the record books.
- Best finish came at the Bahamas Invitational,when he finished at 12-under, 204 (68-67-69) and in a tie for first place.
- 12 rounds in the 60's tied for the most on the team, joining Kelly Chinn, and tied for the fourth-most by a Duke player in a single season.
- 23 par or better rounds is the fifth-most in a single season and his 18 under-par rounds tied for sixth-most for a Blue Devil.
- Finished his third round at the ACC Championship with a birdie-eagle sequence to secure Duke's place in the match play portion of the event.
- Finished in a tie for third place at the event with a 7-under, 209.
- Rolled in a team-best 151 birdies over the course of the season.
- Competed in 11 tournaments and finished fifth on the team in scoring average at 72.91 through 33 total rounds.
- Debuted in the Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate and led the team with a 54-hole score of 2-under, finishing T-9th.
- Ended the season as the 10th best freshman in program history for scoring average.
- Had 12 rounds under par during the season, good for 5th best as a freshman in program history.
- Secured his second top-10 finish in the final tournament of the regular season, the Stitch Intercollegiate, when he ended T-10th at 2-over (76, 71, 71).
- Had three rounds in the 60s, including the first two rounds of the Old Town Club Collegiate (67, 68).
PRIOR TO DUKE
- Signed with Duke in November 2020 as the nation's No. 23-ranked junior player.
- Along with Sample, Duke's incoming freshman class were each ranked in the AJGA top 100 with Kelly Chinn No. 1 and John Peters No. 86.
- The Golfweek rankings had Sample at No. 14.
- A highly-accomplished tournament player, Sample was named the 2020 Metropolitan Golf Association Junior Player of the Year following a record-setting season in which the 17-year-old became the first player in history to win both the Met Junior Championship and Met Open Championship in the same season.
- In becoming just the eighth amateur all-time, and the youngest player in history, to win the Met Open – a pro event, Sample carded three consecutive rounds in the 60s (69-68-68) to finish three strokes clear of the field at eight-under par. He rallied for a stretch of six birdies in seven holes to seize control of the tournament, after entering the final round two off the lead.
- His 2020 schedule also included tournament wins at the AJGA KJ Choi Foundation (71-71-70) and the AJGA Junior at Penn State (66-70-63).
- In 2019, he claimed tournament wins at the New York State Boys Amateur Championship (65-75), the IMG Junior Golf Tour at Charleston Springs CC (67-66) and the AJGA Junior All Star at Windsor (69-72).
- Sample attended Trevor Day School in Manhattan and was a 2020 second-team AJGA Junior All-America selection.
Last updated: 6/16/25
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