Keegan Bronnenberg

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Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Muncie, Ind.
Prev School:
Fort Wayne
High School:
Central

Transferred for his final season of college golf.

Career Honors
• Academic All-MAC (2019)
• MAC Golfer of the Week (Oct. 14, 2019)

2019-20 (R-Jr.): Played in all seven events and all 18 stroke play rounds … led the Cardinals with a 72.61 stroke average that ranked as the second-best single-season mark in program history behind only Jamie Broce’s 71.74 from the 1998-99 campaign … season was cut short when the last four spring tournaments, including the MAC Championships, were canceled because of COVID-19 … ended the season as the MAC’s No. 2-ranked golfer by Golfweek … had an overall head-to-head record of 347-116-20 … occupied the No. 1 or 2 spot in the BSU lineup at every event … posted two top-10 finishes and one top-5 … tied for sixth at the season-opening Golfweek Conference Challenge to help BSU to a 15-stroke team victory and an initial Golfweek national ranking of No. 20, the program’s best ever … tied for third in the fall finale at the Musketeer Classic for his best career finish to lead the Cardinals to third place as a team … named MAC Golfer of the Week for that performance … carded scores of even-par of better in six of his 18 rounds, including three rounds in the 60’s … fired a career-best 66 (-5) in the opening round of the Musketeer Classic … posted a career-best 54-hole total of 212 in three of the team’s six stroke-play tournaments – the Golfweek Conference Challenge (-4), the Trinity Forest Invitational (-1) and the Musketeer Classic (-1) … went 2-1-0 at the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play at the No. 1 spot in the lineup.

2018-19 (So.): Academic All-MAC ... competed in all 11 events and 26 stroke play rounds as part of the Ball State lineup … finished second on the team with a 73.08 scoring average that ranked just outside the top 5 in program history … led the Cardinals with 12 rounds of even par or better … had a team-best three top-10 finishes – the Musketeer Classic (T-4), Firestone Invitational (T-7) and Robert Kepler Intercollegiate (T-8) … fired a season-best 67 (-4) in the opening round of the Musketeer Classic … also carded a 68 at the Kepler and a 69 in his first BSU round at the season-opening Golfweek Conference Challenge … posted season-best 54-hole totals of 213 at Firestone (-3) and the Trinity Forest Invitational (Even) … also finished under par over 54 holes at the Chatham Hills Intercollegiate (-1).

2017-18 (Redshirt): Practiced all year with the team but did not compete as he sat out the season after transferring.

PRE-BALL STATE: Spent one semester as a member of the men’s golf program at Fort Wayne … competed in all four events for the Mastodons in the fall of 2016 with a 75.55 stroke average … posted three top-25 finishes, including a tie for fifth at the Dayton Fall Invitational ... won the 2017 Indiana PGA Southern Open.

HIGH SCHOOL: A two-time all-state selection at Muncie Central … won individual sectional and regional championships as a junior and senior … qualified for the IHSAA state tournament three times and posted two top-6 finishes, including a tie for third as a junior … captured the Indiana PGA Northern Open in 2015 … won the Indiana Junior Golf Program Player of the Year Award back-to-back in 2015 and 2016.