PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (November 22, 2022) – APGA Tour officials today announced the latest APGA Collegiate Ranking for the 2022-2023 season with Howard University's Gregory Odom holding the top spot. By leading the APGA Collegiate Ranking as of November 18, Odom has earned an exemption to play as an amateur in the APGA Farmers Insurance Invitational at Torrey Pines in January 2023.
 
The APGA Collegiate Ranking was announced in October 2020 through a partnership between the PGA TOUR and the APGA Tour. Eligible players are black golfers from NCAA Division I or II programs – including HBCUs – who exhaust a minimum of four years of college eligibility. The APGA Collegiate Ranking is based on players' Golfstat adjusted scoring average, designed to evaluate the top players positioned to qualify for APGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament access.
 
Thanks in part to victories this fall at the River Run Collegiate and USF-Howard Intercollegiate, Odom overtook Michigan State's Troy Taylor III for the top position in the most recent standings. Odom's Howard University teammate Everett Whiten Jr. sits in third place. The Class of 2023 Ranking includes Golfstat-ranked college tournaments played in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.
 
In addition to the exemption into the APGA Farmers Insurance Invitational, the top five players in the final APGA Collegiate Ranking will receive:

• Scholarship access to APGA TOUR events through the remainder of the 2023 APGA Tour season.
• Scholarship access into the Korn Ferry Qualifying School for the 2024 season.

The final No. 1-ranked player will receive a sponsor exemption into the 2023 REX Hospital Open on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Full rankings will be updated monthly at https://www.apgatour.org/apga-collegiate-ranking. At the end of the 2022-23 season, APGA Tour officials will determine the minimum number of rounds to qualify.
 
For more information, visit the Bison Athletics website at www.HUBison.com.