2022-23 Men's Golf Roster

Luke Richard/ULM Athletics
Luke Richard/ULM Athletics
Luke Richard/ULM Athletics
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Michael Wade
Michael Wade
Sun Belt Conference
Michael Wade
Michael Wade

Otto Van Buynder

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Centurion, South Africa
  • Highschool Hoerskool HS

Biography

(Updated June 16, 2023)
Category Stat Date Tournament
Best First Round Score 66 March 18, 2019 Lake Charles Toyota Invitational
Best Second Round Score 68 April 10, 2023 Tiger Intercollegiate
Best Third Round Score 67 Sept. 13, 2022 Jim Rivers Intercollegiate
Best Overall Score (Two Rounds) 143 Oct. 12-13, 2020 Intercollegiate at The Grove
Best Overall Score (Three Rounds) 207 Twice Last at Tiger Intercollegiate
Highest Overall Finish T-2 March 5-6, 2022 Desert Mountain Collegiate
Total Top-10 Finishes 14
Total Top-25 Finishes 26
 
HONORS
2023 Second-Team All-Sun Belt Conference
 
2022-23 (SENIOR)
Second-Team All-Sun Belt Conference … Played in all 11 tournaments and 33 rounds on the season, with his score counting toward the team total in 31 rounds … Led the team with a 71.85 scoring average, last round average (72.36), par-3 scoring (3.17), par-4 scoring (4.05), par-5 scoring (4.70), eagles (5), subpar strokes per round (3.67), pars per round (11.24), bogeys per round (2.91) and double bogeys per round (0.24) … Had 21 rounds of par or under … Had six rounds in the 60s … Second on the team with 111 birdies and led the team with five eagles … Tied for 33rd at the Sun Belt Conference Championship, shooting 8-over-par 224 (77-73-74) … Picked up the final Top-10 finish of his career, tying for 10th by matching his career-low three-round score of 9-under-par 207 (71-68-68) at the Tiger Intercollegiate (April 10-11) … Shot a first-round 3-under-par 69 at the Huntsville Toyota Bearkat Invitational (April 3) … Collected a Top-25 finish, tying for 17th at 2-over-par 218 (75-70-73) at the All-American Invitational (March 20-21) … Took 10th place at 4-under-par 212 (70-71-71) at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (Feb. 20-21) … Tied for fifth in his spring opener, shooting 1-under-par 215 (70-75-70) at the Border Olympics (Feb. 13-14) … Played in four tournaments and 12 rounds in the fall of 2022, leading the team with a 70.83 scoring average and nine rounds of par or better, playing three tournaments with all three rounds at par or better ... Posted a pair of Top-5 finishes ... Tied for third at the season-opening Jim Rivers Intercollegiate (Sept. 11-13), firing a 9-under-par 207 (70-70-67), which included the lowest final round of his career at 5-under-par 67 ... Took third at 4-under-par 212 (72-71-69) at the Little Rock Invitational (Oct. 17-18) ... Also finished in the Top-25 as he tied for 15th at the White Sands Bahamas Invitational (Oct. 28-30) at 5-under-par 211 (68-71-72) ... Tied for 67th at 10-over-par 220 (75-72-73) at the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational (Oct. 3-4).

2021-22 (JUNIOR)
Played in nine events and 26 rounds with a 73.77 scoring average … Included in the team score in 23 of 26 rounds … Tallied three rounds in the 60s and nine rounds of par or better … Third on the team with 78 birdies ... Led the team with five eagles ... Led the team in double bogeys per round (0.35), par-3 greens in regulation (.635), putts on greens in regulation (1.848), non-sand up and downs (.655), sand saves (.571) and total short game (.635) ... Had the highest placing of his career, tying for second at 1-under-par 215 (74-73-68) at the Desert Mountain Collegiate (March 5-6) … Tied for 12th at the Mossy Oak Collegiate (April 11-12) at 2-under-par 214 (69-73-72) … Tied for 40th at the weather-shortened All-American (March 21-22) at 6-over-par 150 (78-72) … Opened the spring by tying for 22nd at 6-over-par 222 (71-75-76) at the Border Olympics (Feb. 14-15) … Closed out the fall slate in a tie for 46th at the Hoakalei CC Invitational (Oct. 25-26) at 9-over-par 225 (76-72-77) … Tied for 57th at the Little Rock Invitational (Oct. 18-19) at 10-over-par 226 (79-73-74) … Tied for 33rd at the Graeme McDowell Invitational (Sept. 27-28) at 5-over-par 221 (70-77-74) … Finished tied for 17th at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-14) at 2-under-par 214 (74-69-71).

2020-21 (SOPHOMORE-2)
Opened his sophomore season with an 18th-place performance at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15), finishing 2-over-par with a three-round score of 218 (73-70-74) … placed 35th at the Graeme McDowell Invitational (Sept. 29-30) with a 9-over-par score of 225 after firing rounds of 73, 75 and 77 … concluded the Intercollegiate at the Grove (Oct. 12-13) by placing ninth with a 1-under-par score of 143 after carding rounds of 72 and 71 … continued his solid play at the Little Rock Invitational (Oct. 19-20) where he came through with a 1-under-par score of 215 after rounds of 76, 71 and 68 … began the 2020-21 spring slate by finishing in a tie for seventh in the Arizona Intercollegiate (Jan. 25-27) where he was 2-over-par score of 215 after posting rounds of 71, 74 and 70 ... capped off his second tournament of the spring, the Border Olympics (Feb. 22-23), by finishing in a tie for 15th after carding a 4-over-par score of 220 ... fired a 75 in the first two rounds of the Border Olympics (Feb. 22) before coming through with a third-round 70, which marked his second-lowest third-round score of the season ... built on the momentum from the Border Olympics by placing in a tie for 13th at the Louisiana Classics (March 15-16), where he was even-par with a three-round score of 216 ... tied his first-round season-low (71) on March 15th before firing a 74 in the second round ... wrapped up the Louisiana Classics with a third-round 71 ... returned to the course a week later to place 35 at the University of Oregon’s Duck Invitational (March 22-23) where he was 12-over-par with a 225 ... opened the event with a 74 in the first round and 75 in the second on March 22nd ... posted a final round 76 at the Duck Invitational on March 23rd ... one of two Warhawks to finish inside the Top-15 of the Git-R-Done Husker Invitational on April 17-18 in Lincoln, Nebraska along with Andoni Etchenique ... opened the two-day, three-round event with a 4-over-par score of 75 before coming through with a 1-over-par score of 72 in the second round ... notched his seventh career Top-10 finish and third of the 2021 season by closing in a three-way tie for 10th with a 3-over-par score of 216 ... final round 69 was the lowest of the day among all five ULM golfers and was one of eight sub-70 third rounds by the entire 61-man field by virtue of carding birdies at the third, 11th and 18th holes along with 14 pars ... closed out the Git-R-Done Husker Invitational with a 3-over-par score of 216 … wrapped up the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship in a tie for 27th, firing a 19-over-par score of 235 (77-79-79) … faced off against Little Rock’s Nicolas Horder in the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship match play round, suffering a 3-2 setback … fired the second-lowest scoring average (73.38) on the team … finished tied with Andoni Etchenique for second on the team in birdies (86). 

2019-20 (SOPHOMORE-1)
Competed in two tournaments over the course of the fall … made his 2019-20 debut at the Graeme McDowell Invitational (Sept. 22-24), finishing tied for 69th … closed out the first round of the Graeme McDowell Invitational with a 72, before carding scores of 78 and 80 to finish 14-over-par with a score of 230 … ended the fall season at the David Toms Intercollegiate (Oct. 5-6), where he was 60th in the event … his 13-over-par score of 229 at the David Toms Intercollegiate came by virtue of a scorecard that included rounds of 75, 77 and 77 in succession ...  began the 2019-20 spring season at the Arizona Intercollegiate (Jan. 27-28) where he finished tied for 48th with an 8-over-par score of 221 after scores of 71, 73 and 77 … finished in a tie for 45th at The All-American with a 6-over-par score of 222 (75-70-77) … notched his first Top-10 of the spring season in the Border Olympics (Feb. 24-25), finishing 1-under-par with a combined score of 215 that included scores of 74, 70 and 71 … capped off the spring by placing fifth in the Tiger Invitational (March 8-10) where he fired a 4-under-par score of 212 after consecutive rounds of 69, 72 and 71. 

2018-19 (FRESHMAN)
Competed in three tournaments over the course of the fall slate … made his collegiate debut, placing 26th, in the Lone Star Invitational where he carded scores of 76 and 73 to finish 5-over-par with a 149 … wrapped up the Louisville Cardinal Challenge with a 5-over-par score of 218 after rounds of 71, 73 and 74 … concluded the fall slate by tying for 13th in the Little Rock Invitational after finishing 3-over-par with a 219 (73, 75, 71) … came through with the second-best scoring average (73.29) of the fall season … carded the most birdies (42) during the fall ... competed in six spring tournaments, recording four Top-25 finishes along the way, including a season-best seventh-place performance at the Old Waverly Collegiate Championships (April 15-17) … fired five rounds in the 60s over the course of the spring, including a season-low 66 in the opening round of the Lake Charles Toyota Invitational (March 18-19) … opened the spring slate at the Tiger Invitational, where he came through with a 15-over-par score of 231 (75-78-78) … enjoyed his second 10th-place outing of the season in the Border Olympics (March 11-12), finishing 4-under-par with a score of 212 (72-69-71) … capped off a 24th-place finish at the Lake Charles Toyota Invitational (March 18-19) with a 4-under-par score of 212 (66-72-74) … closed out the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate (April 1-2) in 18th after posting a 5-over-par score of 221 … came through with the best finish, seventh, of the season at the Old Waverly Collegiate Championships (April 15-17). He closed the two-day, three-round event at 6-under-par with a scorecard of 210 (67-71-72) … capped off the season at the Sun Belt Championships (April 21-23), finishing 25th after an even-par score of 213 (69-76-68). 

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    5'9"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2021-22Junior

    5'9"
  • 2022-23Senior

    5'9"