MGOLF: State Champion Connor Goode To Join UConn Golf Program
STORRS, Conn. – The UConn men's golf team has added another champion to its incoming freshman class of 2022-23.
Glastonbury's Connor Goode, who won the Connecticut Junior Amateur and Connecticut Junior PGA Championships last summer and followed them with the Connecticut Division I State Championship in the fall, will join the UConn program when he enrolls as a freshman for the 2022-23 academic year.
Goode joins Colin Spencer (Mashpee, Mass.), who captured the Massachusetts Junior Amateur Championship last summer, as incoming freshmen for the Huskies.
"We are thrilled to add these two young men to our program," UConn Coach Dave Pezzino said. "To me, it's very significant that both of them won their state golf association junior championships. It shows their toughness and competitiveness at such a young age."
Goode, out of Glastonbury High School where he served as team captain, is a three-time All-Conference and two-time All-State selection as well as an All-New England pick.
"Living in Connecticut, the opportunity to represent UConn was something I just couldn't pass up," Goode said. "UConn is a great academic school with a solid business program for my life after college. It has a great campus and community with great sports teams that are fun to watch.
"Once I met Coach Pezzino and the guys on the team, I knew it would be a great fit for me. They have created a great culture that I wanted to be a part of."
Goode won the Connecticut Junior PGA title in early July with a final-round 69 at Keney Park Golf Course in Windsor to win by one stroke. Three weeks later, he captured the Connecticut Junior Amateur at Watertown Golf Club by defeating defending champion Matt Doyle, 4 and 2, clinching the title by holing an 8-foot eagle on the 16th hole.
In October, he put an exclamation point on his stellar high school career with an even-par 70 at Chippanee Country Club in Bristol to win the Connecticut Division I State Championship individual title by three strokes.
Ironically, because scholastic golf became a fall sport for the first time in 2021-22, Goode could not play varsity football as a senior for Glastonbury High, after three years as a quarterback and a defensive back for the Guardians.
"I'm excited to be able to have a player of Connor's ability join our program," Pezzino said. "He has played at a high level and his work ethic and attitude matches the culture we have established. It's always nice to add young men from Connecticut to our team, and even more exciting when they are our State Junior Amateur champion."
