Danny tees off on the 18th hole at Bethpage Black during the second round of the 2016 New York State Open.Photo: ©2016 Brad Hamilton

Danny tees off on the 18th hole at Bethpage Black during the second round of the 2016 New York State Open.

Photo: ©2016 Brad Hamilton

HIGHLIGHTS

JUNIOR GOLF

  • Played in his first junior tournament at age 9 and finished second, just one stroke behind the winner, in a Plantation Junior Golf Tour (PJGT) event at Cranwell Spa & Golf Resort in Lenox, Mass.
  • Just two weeks later, posted his first career victory, winning a sudden-death playoff in a PJGT event at Saratoga Spa State Park Golf Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
  • Recorded 55 tournament victories during his junior career
  • Won the All-Star Junior Golf Tour’s 13-and-under National Championship at TPC Sawgrass 
  • 2010 Metropolitan PGA Sportsmanship Award
  • 2010-2011 Future Collegians World Tour (FCWT) First-Team All-American (Boys 13-15 Division)
  • 2010-2011 FCWT Second-Team All-American (Boys 16-18 Division)
  • Won the 2011 FCWT at Tanglewood on the Championship Course at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, NC
  • Won the Met PGA Future Series at Eisenhower Park (Red) with a 7-under 137 total (68-69)
  • Led Team New England to back-to-back upset victories over Team Florida in the annual Dave Adamonis Sr. U.S. Challenge Cup Match on the famed Blue Monster at what is now Trump National Doral and earned the clinching point of the annual Ryder-Cup style team competition on the final hole of the final match in both 2011 and 2012 
  • One of three high school players in the country to play in the Northeast Amateur, the U.S. Junior Amateur and the U.S. Amateur in 2012
  • Champion - 2012 World Series of Junior Golf @ Triggs Memorial Golf Course in Providence, R.I. (won on second hole of sudden death)
  • Champion - 2012 U.S. Challenge Cup Northeast Junior Classic @ Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y. - set tournament and U.S. Challenge Cup record with a 6-under 64 in the final round on Bethpage Red
  • Champion - 2012 Future Collegians World Tour @ Newport National in Newport, R.I. - set tournament record with an 11-under 133 (66-67) and won by a tournament-record 11 shots
  • 2012 United States Challenge Cup Player of the Year
  • Selected to participate in the John D. Mineck Deutsche Bank Championship Junior Cup at Boston Golf Club for four straight years - helped Team New England to four victories over Team USA in a Ryder Cup-style event that ran in conjunction with the PGA Tour’s Deutsche Bank Championship
  • 2012 John D. Mineck Award & Scholarship - given annually to a top golfer from the northeast based on golf accomplishments, academic achievements, sportsmanship, passion for the game and citizenship/community service

 

HIGH SCHOOL GOLF

  • Helped lead the Greenwich High boys golf team to undefeated regular seasons (21-0) in 2012 and 2013 (the team lost just two matches during his four-year varsity career), FCIAC conference championships in 2012 and 2013 and the CIAC state championship in 2012
  • Won the Chappa Invitational in 2012 (with Stephen Pastore) and 2013 (with Paul Pastore)
  • Named the Connecticut State High School Player of the Year in 2012

 

COLLEGE GOLF

Freshman Year - Wake Forest University

  • Played in every tournament during the 2013-2014 season
  • Finished second on the team in stroke average at 72.84
  • Led team in many other statistical categories including rounds played (32), rounds counted toward team score (29.5), percentage of rounds counted toward team score (92.3%), rounds of even par or better (17, just one off the school record for a freshman), Top-5 finishes (3) and Top-10 finishes (4)
  • Tied for medalist honors in the 2013 Payne Stewart Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2
  • Led the team to a third-place finish in the 2013 U.S. Collegiate Championship with a 4-under 212 total (72-70-70) at the Golf Club of Georgia and finished T4 individually
  • Shot a final-round 67 to finish at 6-under 210 (72-71-67) in the 2014 Lamkin Grips San Diego Classic at San Diego Country Club and finished T3
  • Shot a final round 69 to finish at 3-under 213 (72-72-69) in the 2014 Hootie @ Bulls Bay Intercollegiate and finished T8

Sophomore Year - Wake Forest University

  • Finished second on the team in individual stroke average at 71.27, which at the time ranked as the sixth-best single-season scoring average for a Wake player since 1981
  • Tied for first or second in most major statistical categories including: Top-10 finishes - 4 (T2), number of rounds at even par or better - 19 (2nd), low round - 66 (T1), and percentage of rounds counted toward team score (2nd)
  • Three Top-5 finishes and one other Top-10 finish: 3rd at 2015 Yale Spring Invitational with a 3-under 207 total (68-72-67); T4 at 2014 Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate with a 5-under 139 total (69-70); T3 at 2014 Marshall Invitational with a 2-under 211 total (70-70-71); T7 at 2014 Primland Inviational with a 10-under 206 total (66-70-70);   
  • Helped the team to three tournament victories (2014 Primland Invitational, 2014 Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate and 2014 Yale Spring Invitational), which marked the first time since 2005-06 that Wake won three tournaments in a season and the first time since 2002 that Wake won back-to-back tournaments - in addition, Wake shattered the all-time school record for team scoring average
  • When he left Wake, his career scoring average of 72.14 ranked behind only Bill Haas, Webb Simpson and Will Zalatoris among Wake players who played two or more seasons since 1981