BATON ROUGE – Two members of the LSU men’s golf team, senior Algot Kleen and freshman Arni Sveinsson, are on the initial spring watchlist for the Fred Haskins Award presented by Stifel announced on Monday.
The seventh ranked Tigers are competing Monday and Tuesday in the 40th Louisiana Classics in Lafayette.
The Award, presented by the Haskins Foundation to college golf’s top player, will be based on a final vote later this spring of players, coaches and golf media and will be presented at the NCAA men’s golf championship in Carlsbad, California.
Sveinsson is ranked No. 11 in the NCAA Scoreboard by Clippd performance rankings with a win in the fall in the nationally-televised Blessings Intercollegiate in Fayetteville. The native of Iceland also has a second-place finish in the Fallen Oak Collegiate and a third in his last start, the Puerto Rico Classic.
Kleen, who came to LSU from East Tennessee, is a native of Sweden and also has a win on his resume’ this year, taking the title at the Visit Knoxville opener. He also finished second at The Blessings after shooting a tournament record final round of 63 to finish second in the seven. He is ranked No. 12 in the NCAA performance table.
Kleen is ranked 35th and Sveinsson 54th in the latest World Amateur Golf rankings.
Here is the complete list of players on the first Spring Watchlist for the Haskins Award:
Carson Bacha, Auburn
Josele Ballester, Arizona State
Daniel Bennett, Texas
Luke Clanton, Florida State
Ethan Fang, Oklahoma State
Caden Fioroni, UNLC
David Ford, North Carolina
Josiah Gilbert, Auburn
Ian Gilligan, Florida
Ben James, Virginia
Sergio Jimenez, Utah
Algot Kleen, LSU
Jackson Koivun, Auburn
Michael La Sasso, Ole Miss
Tommy Morrison, Texas
Sebastian Moss, Louisville
Jackson Van Paris, Vanderbilt
Arni Sveinsson, LSU
Brandon Valdes, Auburn
Kieron van Wyk, Charleston