Dylan Menante Career Statistics
CAREER: A two-time All-American ... Ranked second in career scoring average (70.98) after his three seasons at Pepperdine ... Appeared in 33 tournaments and 97 rounds ... Had 13 top-10 finishes and 21 top-20 results ... Tied for ninth with 46 career below-par rounds.
PEPPERDINE 2021-22: Received
All-American honorable mention status from both Golfweek and the GCAA/PING as a junior ... Ranked #39 by Golfweek/Sagarin and #42 by Golfstat ... Repeated as
WCC Player of the Year ... Also
GCAA/PING All-West Region and
All-WCC first team ... Led the squad with a 71.20 scoring average ... Played in all 41 rounds ... Had four top-10 and seven top-20 results, and 16 below-par rounds ... Won back-to-back tournaments at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational (64-65-70=199) and the Western Intercollegiate (70-72-67=209) ... Tied for 15th at the WCC Championships (74-72-69=215) ... Tied for 39th at the NCAA Bryan Regional (72-76-74=222) ... Tied for 43rd at the NCAA Championships (76-73-66-77=292) ... Best round was an 8-under 64 at the NIT (tying seventh-best round in program history) ... Best 54-hole score was 14-under at Valspar (tying seventh-best tournament in program history) ... A
GCAA All-American Scholar ... Made
WCC All-Academic honorable mention ... Earned
WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “silver” honors ... A
Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
PEPPERDINE 2020-21: Earned
All-American third team honors from both Golfweek and the GCAA/PING as a sophomore ... Made
GCAA/PING All-West Region ... The
WCC Player of the Year, and was on the
All-WCC first team ... Ranked #30 by Golfweek/Sagarin and #38 by Golfstat ... Averaged 70.74 strokes (fifth in Pepperdine single-season history) over 35 rounds and 12 tournaments ... Had a team-best nine top-20 finishes and six top-10s ... Had 18 below-par rounds, tied for seventh-most in school single-season history ... Was unlucky to finish second four times, going 0-3 in playoffs ... Shot an 11-under 205 (67-67-71) at the WCC Championships but fell to teammate Clay Feagler ... Shot a 14-under 202 (67-65-70) at the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational but was beaten by South Carolina’s Ryan Hall ... Had a 14-under 196 (62-65-69) at the Pasadera Collegiate Invitational but was bested by teammate Joshua McCarthy ... Also tied for second at the Maridoe Collegiate Invitational (79-68-69=216) ... Tied for fourth at The Prestige with a 3-under 210 (71-71-68) ... Went 1-1-1 in match play as the Waves won the NCAA title, and tied for 17th in stroke play (70-74-72-67=283) ... His two 14-unders tied the sixth-best 54-hole score in school history ... His 8-under 62 at Pasadera tied the sixth-best single round ... A
GCAA All-American Scholar ... Made the
WCC All-Academic first team ... Earned
WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “silver” honors ... A
Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
PEPPERDINE 2019-20: Had an impressive debut season, with a 70.95 scoring average that ranks second on Pepperdine’s season list for freshmen ... Ranked #106 by Golfstat and #143 by Golfweek/Sagarin ... Played in eight tournaments and 24 rounds ... Had three top-10 results, five top-20 showings and 12 below-par rounds ... Tied for sixth at the Bill Cullum Invitational as an individual with a 9-under 207 (66-69-72) ... Tied for eighth at the Mea Lanakila individual event (73-69-74=216) ... Tied for eighth at the Southwestern Invitational (76-71-69=216) ... Tied for 12th at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational with a 7-under 206 (71-68-67) ... Tied for 14th at the Amer Ari Invitational with an 8-under 208 (72-71-65), including ending his final round going eagle-birdie-eagle in the Waves’ incredible comeback win ... Best round was the 7-under 65 in the final round of the Amer Ari ... Season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... Earned
WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “bronze” honors ... A
Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
AMATEUR/JUNIOR GOLF: Competed for the U.S. team that won the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup, and was named to the team again in 2022 ... Played in the 2018, 2020 and 2021 U.S. Amateur ... Won the 2021 Northeast Amateur Championship ... Named to the 2019 AJGA Rolex All-American second team, and was honorable mention in 2018 ... A three-time AJGA champion ... Placed third at the 2017 California State Boys Junior Amateur Championship ... Ranked as high as #12 in the AJGA/Polo Golf rankings and #13 by Junior Golf Scoreboard.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Sage Creek High School, located in Carlsbad, Calif., in 2019 ... Played three years of varsity golf ... Made the 2018 All-CIF first team and was second team in 2017 ... Earned a CIF Academic Award.
PERSONAL: Majoring in pre-business administration ... Born in Reno, Nev. ... Son of Lisa and Dean Menante ... His parents both played college sports at Nevada (father was a golfer and mother played tennis) ... Has three sisters: Chloe, Ashley and Lexie.
FAVORITES: Enjoys ping pong, tennis and going to the beach ... Lists his sports hero as Rafael Nadal ... Favorites include Justin Thomas (pro golfer), Los Angeles Country Club north (golf course), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (book), Fast and Furious (movie), Impractical Jokers (TV show), Khalid (musical artist), seafood linguine (food) and ping pong (sport other than golf) ... Favorite thing about golf is “there are so many ways to play the game, there’s no one way to play a good round.”
