Western Carolina University

2023-24 (Redshirt Senior): Played as a part of WCU’s scoring five in all 11 of the team’s competitions including the 10 stroke play events and one match play tournament … Ranked second on the WCU squad with a seasonal scoring average of 72.41, ranked 19th in the Southern Conference … A combined 27 of his 29 rounds were shot in the 70s-or-better including eight rounds fired in the 60s … Led the Catamounts in scoring in four events and posted four Top 10 individual finishes … Matched his previous career-low round with a 68 posted in the opening round of the Golfweek Fall Challenge before establishing a new career benchmark by shooting 65 in the second round as part of a career-low 54-hole score of 203 (68-65-70) – the fifth-lowest, three-round score in program history … Tallied a season-best fifth-place finish at the Golfweek Fall Challenge … Finished sixth at the Phoenix Invitational with a three-round score of 7-under-par 206 … Also collected a Top 10 finish with a ninth-place tie at the rain-shortened, WCU-hosted Peoples Golf Championship at Sea Palms Resort with a two-round total of 140 … Capped the regular season in an eighth-place tie at the Wofford Invitational, shooting a 54-hole score of 212... Named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District At-Large team ... Named to the 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2022-23 (Redshirt Junior): Competed in all 11 of the team’s events, finishing second on the team with a seasonal stroke average of 73.31 … Finished the year second on the WCU squad with a seasonal scoring average of 73.31, ranked 28th in the SoCon … 31 of his 32 seasonal rounds were shot in the 70s with six rounds carded in the 60s with 15 rounds carded at 72-or-lower … Twice led the Catamount scoring five in finishing order … Fired a career-low round of 68 twice – in the third round of the 2022 JT Poston Invitational at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley and again in the second round of the Sea Palms Invitational … Led WCU in scoring average through the fall semester at 72.36 … Carded the team’s best 54-hole score of the fall with a 210 (71-70-69) at the Furman Intercollegiate, posting his career-best finish in a tie for eighth … Tallied a pair of 14th-place finishes at the Poston Invitational in the fall and the Wofford Invitational in the spring semester ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to Western Carolina: Spent two seasons on the men’s golf team at NAIA-member Missouri Valley College … Was ranked 48th in the NAIA GolfStat final player rankings in May 2022 … Was a two-time Heart of America Athletic Conference Men’s Golf All-Conference selection … Selected as both the 2021 Heart of America Athletic Conference Men’s Golf Player of the Year and the Newcomer of the Year … Posted one win, two runners-up, and seven Top 10’s over nine events in 2021-22 … Finished as the individual runner-up at the 2022 Heart of America Athletic Conference championship event with a 1-under par score of 215 … Was a two-time Heart of America Athletic Conference Men’s Golfer of the Week in 2021-22 … Placed eighth in the 2021 Heart men’s golf championship as a true freshman … Was on the Dean’s List at MVC … Finished tied for 20th at the Spanish Amateur.

Personal: Is the son of Silvia and Fernando Hernandez ... Has a sister, Cristina.