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Samantha Brown Season 2024-25

YearFreshman
HometownWestfield, Ind.
2024-25 / FRESHMAN
  • One of three Boilermakers to crack the lineup in all 14 tournaments
  • Held a 75.76 stroke average, leading the team’s freshmen
  • Led Purdue in eagles (4), including a pair of hole-in-ones, while ranking second on the team in pars (428)
  • Making her conference tournament debut, carded a career-low 69 (-3) in the second round of the B1G Championships
  • Led Purdue at the Boilermaker Spring Classic by tying for 16th (75-72-75—222) on the individual leaderboard and matching her best finish as a Boilermaker; made a hole-in-one in the second round, acing the par-3 17th at Ackerman-Allen
  • Helped the Boilermakers win the Coach Mo Classic by tying for 16th (75-73-76—224); made a hole-in-one in the second round
  • Made 40 pars at the Mary Fossum Invitational to rank second in the 84-player field
  • Tied for 30th at the prestigious ANNIKA Intercollegiate with a career-low 221 (78-71-72) that featured her first under-par round as a Boilermaker
  • In her collegiate debut, tied for 21st (75-75-76—226) to help Purdue win the Boilermaker Classic

PRIOR TO COLLEGE
  • Participated in the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open and 2024 U.S. Girls Junior Championship
  • Won the 2024 Women’s Western Junior
  • As a senior, named Indiana Girls Golfer of the Year by USA Today, earning a spot on the All-USA Today HSSA Girls Golf Team
  • Finished her junior golf career ranked No. 49 in the country by Junior Golf Scoreboard
  • Four-time all-state honoree
  • Won 24 of 48 high school tournaments and finished 1-under par throughout her entire high school career, which included a cumulative 37-under par as a senior
  • Finished 2-under (68-74) to win the 2023 IHSAA State Championship by four strokes, while also collecting the IHSAA Mental Attitude Award and helping Westfield finish second as a team
  • Won her conference all four years, sectionals three times and regionals twice
  • Claimed victories at the Indiana Junior PGA Championship, a nine-stroke win at Purdue's Ackerman-Allen Course, as well as the Indiana Girls State Junior Championship; advanced to the Junior PGA Championship and tied for 25th
  • Earned runner-up honors at the 2023 Indiana Women's Open, which included facing professionals
  • Tied for third at the 2023 Pete and Alice Dye Junior Invitational, one of the top junior tournaments in the country
PERSONAL
  • Daughter of Zane and Carrie Brown
  • Has two siblings: Kate and Brooklyn
  • Born: Feb. 7, 2006
  • Her great grandfather, Bob Rosburg, played on the PGA Tour and won the PGA Championship, finished second twice in the U.S. Open (1959, 1969) and tied for fourth at the 1959 Masters; played golf and baseball at Stanford