2024-25 Men's Golf Roster

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Ben Carpenter

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Darien, Conn.
  • High School Brunswick School
  • Opendorse ben-carpenter

Biography

2024-25 (Senior)

  • Served as team captain for the season.
  • Competed in nine of Yale’s 11 tournaments during the year.
  • Picked up four top 20 finishes: Ivy League Championship (7th), Alex Lagowitz Memorial (9th), Glen Arbor Invite (13th), and Columbia Spring Invitational (20th). 

2023-24 (Junior)

  • First Team All-Ivy honoree.
  • Division I PING All-Northeast Region Team (Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA))
  • Named a Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar
  • Was the top finisher at the Ivy Championships earning medalist honors. It was the second time Carpenter had earned medalist honors at the championships having won the honor in 2022.
  • Carpenter shot a 204, nine under par, at the 2024 championships compared to his 211 finish in 2022.
  • He became the 16th Yale men’s golfer to earn medalist honors since the development of the Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship in 1975.
  • Eighth golf in Ivy history to earn medalist honors twice and the third Yale golfer next to Peter Teraveinen (1977, 1978) and Bob Heintz (1990, 1991, 1992).
  • Earned co-medalist honors at the Roar-EE Invitational (137).
  • Tied for ninth at the Princeton Invitational with a score of 214.
  • Tied for 18th at the UC San Diego Invitational (219)
  • Finished eighth at the All-American Intercollegiate (T8-216)

2022-23 (Sophomore)

  • Competed in eight events on the year.
  • Tied for sixth place with a score of 221 at the Ivy League Championship.
  • Earned Second Team All-Ivy accolades for his finish at the Ivy Championship.
  • Named a Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar.

2021-22 (First Year)

  • Helped Yale to its first team Ivy League title since 2018 after taking Ivy League Medalist honors.
  • Shot 72-71-75 (218) to win Ivy Tournament. 
  • Earned First-Team All-Ivy honors for his performance at the championship. 
  • Played in 10 tournaments and had 27 rounds with a 74.27 average.

Before Yale:

  • Won the 2019 MGA Carter Cup
  • On-site medalist at the 2019 Met Junior and advanced to the quarterfinals
  • Qualified for the Ike, Met Am, and Met Open in 2019
  • Finished second in the 2018 Future Series: Eisenhower Fall Challenge
  • Won the 2018 Future Series: Bethpage Fall Challenge
  • Finished 4th at the 2019 IMG Championship at Charleston Springs
  • Qualifier for 2018 New York State Open at Bethpage Black
  • Four-year varsity player at Brunswick
  • Co-medalist at Western New England’s freshman year
  • Medalist at Western New England's sophomore year and led Brunswick to its first-ever Western New England Championship
  • Finished second at Western New England’s junior year and led the team to back-to-back championship victories
  • Helped team reach a historic 48-0 record his junior year, senior year co-captain.

Off the course: Has contributed to community service projects through Brunswick… Before solely committing to golf, won the Brunswick School Athletic Award playing soccer, squash, and baseball at age 15.

Personal: Father, Charles Carpenter, graduated from Texas Tech and Georgetown Law School… Mother, Robyn Carpenter, graduated from Southern Methodist University...has one sister, Carolyn.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

  • 2021-22First Year

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

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    2024-25Senior

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