By Blake Dowson
Carson Schaake’s long résumé of impressive tournament play got a little bit longer this past weekend in South Carolina during the Players Amateur — though he didn’t get to play quite as long as he would have liked.
Schaake missed the weekend cut of the tournament after carding a 16-over 232 through three rounds of play.
The Players Amateur was in its 17th year, and amateurs played for a chance to earn a sponsor’s exemption into the 2017 RBC Heritage, the only PGA Tour event played in South Carolina.
Schaake has been the best player on the Hawkeye men’s golf team for the past two seasons and has become one of the best in program history.
He has led Iowa to an NCAA regional berth each year he has been on campus, and he completed the 2015-16 season with four top-10 finishes, including a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships.
He won the Big Ten crown as a sophomore, becoming only the third Hawkeye to do so and the first since 1992.
Schaake has been busy this summer on the golf course, winning on June 11-12 at the Tom Dinsdale Automotive Amateur in Grand Island, Nebraska. He swallowed up a 3-stroke deficit on the final day of the tournament to claim the victory after he carded a 64 — good enough to tie the course record.
His final performance for the Hawkeyes in the spring was at the NCAA regional, where he finished 11th individually; the team placed 10th.