Will Harding Season 2020-21

Honors & Awards

• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2020)
• Midwest PGA Student-Athlete of the Year (2019)
• Kansas City Junior Amateur Champion (2019)
• Kansas Class 6A First-Team All-State (2019)
• U.S. Junior Amateur Qualifier (2019)

Freshman (2020-21)
Will Harding made his collegiate debut by competing as an individual outside Nebraska's lineup at the Git-R-Done Husker Invitational (April 17-18). The freshman from Prairie Village, Kan., recorded a three-round total of 233 (80-77-76) on the par-71, 7,040-yard layout at the Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln. His performance earned him a tie for 51st in a 60-player field.

Before Nebraska
Harding was a Kansas Class 6A first-team all-stater as a junior in 2019, after leading  Shawnee Mission East to its second consecutive state championship.

Harding was the top finisher for the Lancers in both of their state title runs, taking fifth individually as a sophomore in 2018, before finishing seventh as a junior. 

Harding served as Shawnee Mission East’s team captain as a junior in 2019. Harding captured two individual tournament titles and two runner-up finishes and never finished lower than eighth. 

A three-time varsity golf letterwinner, Harding did not compete in high school golf as a senior because of the cancellation to the season caused by the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus.

In the summer of 2020, Harding advanced to the semifinals of the Kansas Amateur Match Play Championship at Colbert Hills in Manhattan, July 20-26. He won four straight matches to advance to the semifinals, including wins over a pair of Kansas Jayhawk golfers, Davis Cooper and Zach Sokolosky.

Harding was the Kansas City Junior Amateur Champion and the runner-up in the U.S. Junior Amateur Qualifier in 2019. He was also named the recipient of the 2019 Midwest PGA Student-Athlete of the Year award in October of 2019. Harding holds the junior course record at the Kansas City Country Club where he shot a 64 in 2017. 

Personal
The son of Darren and Allison Harding, Will was born April 21, 2001 in Prairie Village, Kan. Will has an older sister, Anna, and an older brother, Drew. Will is a business administration major and claimed a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2020.

“Nebraska invests so much in the success of their athletes from both an academic and athletic standpoint. I can’t wait to be surrounded by teammates and a coach that are eager to work hard, improve as golfers, and help make Nebraska one of the top teams in the country.”

Year-by-Year

Year	Rounds	Strokes	Average
2020-21	3	233	77.67
Career Totals	3	233	77.67

Career Bests
Low Round - 76 (Git-R-Done Husker Invitational, 4/18/21)
Low 54-hole score - 233 (Git-R-Done Invitational, 4/18/21)
Best Tournament Finish - T51st (Git-R-Done Invitational, 4/18/21)
Rounds Under Par - 0