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2022-23 Men's Golf Roster

Michael McCarthy

  • Class Graduate Student

Biography

2022-23: Tied for 39th in a 92-golfer field at the Hartford Hawks Invitational…Tied for ninth of 55 golfers at the Sacred Heart Fall Classic…Opened the spring tied for ninth place at the South Jersey Spring Kickoff, helping Fairfield to second place on the team leaderboard…led the team at +2 at the Battle at Rum Pointe…Tied for 31st of 98 at the ABARTA Collegiate Invitational…Tied for 24th at the MAAC Championship.

Before Fairfield: Played collegiate golf at Loyola University (MD) from 2018-2022. Had a scoring average of 76.0 in 2021, 76.3 in 2020 and 77.5 in 2019.

High School:  Earned three varsity letters in golf at Gonzaga College High School outside of Washington, D.C...Team captain as a senior...Also a Washington Post first-team All-Met selection as a senior...Team won WCAC Championship in 2016, 2017 and 2018 and went undefeated in WCAC League matches those three years...Team Metro Champions in 2016 and 2017...McCarthy participated in the Williamson Cup in 2016 and 2017, and played for the Maryland team in the Capital Cup in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Won the Columbia Country Club Junior Championship in 2017. Won the 2016 WMGA Bob Riley Junior Championship. He also finished fourth at the 2017 MAPGA Denny McCarthy Junior Invitational, fourth at the Frank Emmet Schoolboy Championship, 11th at the Bobby Gorin Memorial, ninth at the Junior PGA Championship Sectional Qualifier and was top-20 at the AJGA - Amino VITAL at Treyburn Country Club.

Personal: Son of Mike and Kim McCarthy...Has four siblings; Patrick, Molly, Sean and Ryan...Father played golf at James Madison...Cousin Denny McCarthy played golf at UVA and is on the PGA Tour.