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Joshua Hess
- Class:
- 2nd Year
- Hometown:
- Schattdorf, Switzerland
- High School:
- Montverde Academy (Fla.)
Statistics & Rankings: Scoreboard/Clippd (NCAA) | World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR)
Awards & Honors:
2025-26 All-Mid-American Conference Second Team
1x Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Week (2025-26)
In the EMU Record Book:
#7 54-Hole Score: 206 (Hal Williams Collegiate – Feb. 16-17, 2026)
#18 Season Stroke Average: 72.9 (2025-26)
EMU: Returns to Ypsilanti as a second-year player with four years of eligibility remaining… Coming off a rookie season in which he earned All-Mid-American Conference Second Team honors while ranking among the program’s top 20 for single-season stroke average (72.9)… 2025-26: Earned a place on the All-MAC Second Team in his first collegiate season… Competed in all 13 tournaments Eastern entered and posted six finishes in the top 20 with one top 10 showing… Played 38 rounds and averaged 72.9 strokes, the 18th-best in program history… Shot 19 rounds at or below par with four rounds in the 60s… Opened his career shooting 3-under 213 at the Whirlwind Collegiate Invitational (Sept. 8-9) and lowered her collegiate best to 4-under 206 at the Hal Williams Collegiate (Feb. 16-17) to tie for 12th… The 206 in Alabama tied for the seventh-lowest 54-hole round score in program history… Recorded scores of 2-under 214 in four events with his third instance earning him a tie for 10th place at the Pearl at Kalauao Invitational (Nov. 5-6)… Tied for 15th at the MAC Championships.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Montverde Academy in Florida and is a member of the Swiss National Team... Played numerous international events throughout 2025, including runner-up finishes as the Junior Orange Bowl International and the IJGT WAGR International… Tied for 36th at the Scottish Men’s Open Championship and tied for 30th at the St. Andrews Links Trophy… Tied for 60th at the RA& The Amateur Championship at Royal St. George’s GC in Sandwich, England… Represented Switzerland at the 2025 European Amateur Team Championship in Killarney, Ireland, tying for 66th place individual in stroke play… The Swiss won the Flight B match play to place ninth overall in Europe… Was 1-0-1 individually in match play and 1-0-0 in foursomes as Switzerland defeated Estonia (3-2), Poland (4-1), and Netherlands (3-2)… In 2204, helped the Swiss to a fifth-place finish at the 2024 European Boys Team Championship in Switzerland and Austria... Won the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship and the IJGT WAGR #1 Championship... Posted eight top 10 finishes in 2024, including adding wins in Italy at the Il Copa Sureste and at the Swiss Golf Junior Tour Event U18... Won the Optimist Tournament of Champions to qualify for the Orange Bowl Championship... Placed 13th at the Swiss Golf Open Championships and was 60th in the Memorial Olivier Barras professional event... Added victories in 2023 at the U16 Swiss National Championship and the RB German Junior Championship.
PERSONAL: Full Name: Joshua Bernhard Hess… Son of Hugo and Corine Hess… International Business major.
2025-26 All-Mid-American Conference Second Team
1x Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Week (2025-26)
In the EMU Record Book:
#7 54-Hole Score: 206 (Hal Williams Collegiate – Feb. 16-17, 2026)
#18 Season Stroke Average: 72.9 (2025-26)
EMU: Returns to Ypsilanti as a second-year player with four years of eligibility remaining… Coming off a rookie season in which he earned All-Mid-American Conference Second Team honors while ranking among the program’s top 20 for single-season stroke average (72.9)… 2025-26: Earned a place on the All-MAC Second Team in his first collegiate season… Competed in all 13 tournaments Eastern entered and posted six finishes in the top 20 with one top 10 showing… Played 38 rounds and averaged 72.9 strokes, the 18th-best in program history… Shot 19 rounds at or below par with four rounds in the 60s… Opened his career shooting 3-under 213 at the Whirlwind Collegiate Invitational (Sept. 8-9) and lowered her collegiate best to 4-under 206 at the Hal Williams Collegiate (Feb. 16-17) to tie for 12th… The 206 in Alabama tied for the seventh-lowest 54-hole round score in program history… Recorded scores of 2-under 214 in four events with his third instance earning him a tie for 10th place at the Pearl at Kalauao Invitational (Nov. 5-6)… Tied for 15th at the MAC Championships.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Montverde Academy in Florida and is a member of the Swiss National Team... Played numerous international events throughout 2025, including runner-up finishes as the Junior Orange Bowl International and the IJGT WAGR International… Tied for 36th at the Scottish Men’s Open Championship and tied for 30th at the St. Andrews Links Trophy… Tied for 60th at the RA& The Amateur Championship at Royal St. George’s GC in Sandwich, England… Represented Switzerland at the 2025 European Amateur Team Championship in Killarney, Ireland, tying for 66th place individual in stroke play… The Swiss won the Flight B match play to place ninth overall in Europe… Was 1-0-1 individually in match play and 1-0-0 in foursomes as Switzerland defeated Estonia (3-2), Poland (4-1), and Netherlands (3-2)… In 2204, helped the Swiss to a fifth-place finish at the 2024 European Boys Team Championship in Switzerland and Austria... Won the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship and the IJGT WAGR #1 Championship... Posted eight top 10 finishes in 2024, including adding wins in Italy at the Il Copa Sureste and at the Swiss Golf Junior Tour Event U18... Won the Optimist Tournament of Champions to qualify for the Orange Bowl Championship... Placed 13th at the Swiss Golf Open Championships and was 60th in the Memorial Olivier Barras professional event... Added victories in 2023 at the U16 Swiss National Championship and the RB German Junior Championship.
PERSONAL: Full Name: Joshua Bernhard Hess… Son of Hugo and Corine Hess… International Business major.
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