Michigan Golf Journal December 2019

Michigan Golf Journal College olf Hunter Eichhorn could easily be the best golfer from Michigan that almost nobody knows. Raised in a small town in the U.P. due west of Escanaba, Eichhorn was rarely on any golfing radar in Michigan – despite winning the U.P. golf state championship all four years at tiny Carney- Nadeau High School, where he also sits at T3 in Michigan history for making 12 three- point field goals in one basketball game and T9 for career 3s at 244 made. Eichhorn never played golf in any AJGA tournaments and came across the Mackinaw Bridge to play in just two GAM tournaments in the Lower Peninsula. With the lack of exposure, along with his self-taught homemade swing, he rarely caught the eye of college recruiters – and he seems to have blissfully been happy that way. Only three schools recruited him, and Marquette University in Milwaukee won out. Once there, his low profile quickly changed. Eichhorn turned the Big East Conference on its ear by winning the league championship as a freshman in the spring of 2018. Now halfway through his junior year, Eichhorn is the reigning Wisconsin Amateur champion and winner of four college tournaments (including his team’s home invitational played at Erin Hills this fall), plus another five top 5 finishes.  “He is an impressive young man and one of the Hunter Eichhorn Jumps from the U.P. to Big Time College Golf Mystery golfer is no mystery now By Tom Lang