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Saint Joseph's University

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Saint Joseph's Hawks

2021-22 USCI Golf

Matthew McCaffrey

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 200
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Haddon Heights, N.J.
  • High School Bishop Eustace

Biography

Career Honors

2x Dean’s List Honors

One 4.0 GPA Semester

Collegiate Best Round: 78 on April 4, 2022 at West Chester's Dr. Edwin Cottrell Invitational – Penn Oakes Golf Club (West Chester, Pa.)

Career Averages

Year Rounds Average
2021 8 87.1

2021-22: 

  • Tied for third in field in par-3 scoring at +3 in a quad-match featuring 22 golfers (4/20)
  • Was tied for 18th in the field of 69 after shooting a new collegiate-best, 78, for the the second time in three rounds in round one of West Chester's Dr. Edwin Cottrell Invitational. Followed that with an 84 in round two (4-4/5)
  • Was in the top-20 of the field of 66 after a collegiate-best round of 80 in round one of The Battle at the Beech , and he would secure a spot in the top-half-of-the-field finish with an 84 in round two (3/21-22)
  • Carded an 82, a six-stroke improvement from round one, to fall one shot shy of his collegiate-best round in the second round of the CACC Championship (10/4-5)
  • Tied his collegiate-best round of 81 to place sixth in the field of 15 at the season-opening tri-match, highlighted by tying for third in the field in par-3 scoring (+1) (9/8)

2021: McCaffrey competed in all eight rounds, registering an 87.1 scoring average in his first collegiate season.

  • In his second collegiate round at the season-opening Griffin Invitational, made an impressive 11-stroke improvement to record an 85 (3/29-30)
  • Shot a collegiate-best 81 to lead the USciences golf team and narrowly miss out on a top-five finish at Wesley's Spring Invitational. Bested his previous low round of 85 to tie for sixth in the field of 37, just one stroke behind a tie for third and two strokes behind second (4/11)
  • Playing in his first-ever CACC Championship, carded an 88, highlighted by a birdie on the 556-yard par-5 third. The freshman finished in the top-half of the field in par-5 scoring at +1 (4/19)
  • Tied his collegiate-best round of 81 to tie for fourth in the field of 20, as USciences closed out its season by winning a tri-match over Jefferson and Neumann. He tied for second overall in both birdies (2) and par-4 scoring (+2), while also tying for fourth with seven pars and was tying for fifth at in par-5 scoring at +1 (4/20)

Prior to USciences:

  • All-Conference in both basketball and golf
  • 2019 Sportsmanship Award for golf
  • 2019-20 Best All-Around Player Award for basketball
  • Basketball team captain, 
  • National Honor Society, English Honor Society, French Honor Society and Theology Honor Society
  • Distinguished Honor Roll all four years (4.0 or higher)
  • Timothy P. Lenehan Scholarship

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    6'3" 190 lbs
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    6'2" 200 lbs