Columbia University Athletics

Honors & Awards:
- Two-time GCAA Academic All-America Scholar (2023, 2024)
- 2022 Genesis Collegiate Showcase Qualifier

2023-24
Played in all 10 tournaments and 28 competition rounds ... Carried a stroke average of 72.71, ranking No. 3 on the team ... Posted two top-3 finishes, as well as seven top 25s ... Matched the low-round of his collegiate career with an opening 64 and recorded the low-54 of his collegiate career of 6-under-par 204, earning solo third at the 87-man Doc Gimmler (Sept. 9-10) ... Fired a 7-under 64 that included his first collegiate hole-in-one at the GCU Invitational (March 12-13) ... Earned solo third with a 5-under-par 139 (70-69) at the Roar-EE Inviational (April 13).

2022-2023
Kicked off his sophomore season by tying for fifth at the Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate with a 36-hole career best of 5-under-par 137 (68-69) (Sept. 10-11) ... Placed fourth at the Savannah Intercollegiate with a 54-hole career best total of 3-under 213 in a dominant team win (Feb. 18-19) ... Shot a first-round 7-under-par 64 at the Princeton Invitational (April 8-9), marking the second-lowest round ever shot by a Columbia golfer, bested only by teammate Nathan Han’s NCAA record tying 60 earlier that fall ... Finished the year having shot par or better in 46 percent of his competitive rounds.

2021-2022
Shot an opening round 68 in his first collegiate tournament, the Cornell Invitational, and remained in contention until the final few holes where a few bogies saw him fall to a tie for ninth (Sept. 19-20) ... Set the record for lowest round shot by a Columbia freshman in the opening round of the Columbia Fall Invitational by posting a 5-under-par 67 (Oct. 11) ... Contributed to Columbia’s routing of Yale in the 125th Anniversary Match by winning his match by three holes ... Finished the fall season by finishing as the co-medalist at Wagner’s Metropolitan Intercollegiate (Nov. 1-2) ... Became the first Lion to compete in the Genesis Collegiate Showcase at Riviera Country Club in February ... Remained a fixture of the starting lineup throughout the spring and finished tied for 16th at the Princeton Invitational (April 8-9).

HIGH SCHOOL
Attended his local public high school, Burlingame High School ... Earned seven varsity letters for his involvement with the varsity golf and football teams ... Captained and earned MVP honors for both teams ... The first president of Burlingame’s Athletic Director’s Advisory Committee, where he helped encourage school spirit and grow attendance at school sporting events ... Honored as one of Burlingame’s Valedictorians for the class of 2021.

PERSONAL
Father, Jon, played college golf at Loyola Marymount University.

ARTICLES
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/sports/local/boys-golfer-of-the-year-burlingame-s-wyatt-mcgovern/article_0a039fd4-90d5-11e9-a6eb-0f07a86aeee1.html