Baylor

Last name pronounced HEFF-err-non … One of three players in program history to boast a perfect 5-0 record at the Big 12 Match Play (2023) ... Finished with a 10-9-1 career record in match play ... Played 112 rounds across 38 tournaments in four years at Baylor … Finished with the 30th-best stroke average in program history (73.88) ...  Named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team twice ... Picked up High School All-America honors in 2020-2021… Was a member of the 2021 Wyndham Cup team… Won the AJGA’s KJ Choi Foundation Texas Junior Championship presented by Mediheal in March of 2020… Notched a t-9 at the Polo Golf Junior Classic at Liberty National in June of 2021.

2024-25 (Senior): Competed in all ten team events, finishing with the second-best stroke average (74.11) ... Tied for second on the team with seven rounds at par or better ... Led the team with 68 birdies ... Cobalt All-American Scholar ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team ... Played two rounds in red figures en route to a Baylor-best tie for 13th at the Gopher Invitational (9/9) ... Fired a final-round 66 to finish 21st at the Fighting Illini Invitational (9/22) ... Tied for a team-best 3-2 record at the Big 12 Match Play (10/11) ... Closed the fall with a tie for 45th at the Clerico (10/29) ... Opened with two rounds at par or better en route to a tie for 45th at the Prestige (2/19) ... Tied for 44th at the Cabo Collegiate (3/4) ... Opened with a 67 en route to a tie for 18th at the Hackler (3/18) ... Shot a second-round 72 in tough conditions at the Maridoe Intercollegiate (4/1).

2023-24 (Junior): Competed in 10 events, tying for a team-best two top-5 finishes ... Played his final two rounds at 1-under par to tie for 55th at the Valero Texas Collegiate (9/11) ... Tied for 44th at the Fighting Illini Invitational (9/17) ... Joined Cooper Dossey and Colin Kober as one of three players in program history to go 5-0 at the Big 12 Match Play, helping BU to a second-place finish in Hockley (10/11) ... Carded three rounds at par-or-better and a tie for 37th at the Kapolei Invitational (11/2) ... Shot even-par to finish second at the All-American Individual (3/19) ... Followed that up with a tie four fourth, helping the Bears get Mike McGraw his 50th-career win at the Aggie Invitational (4/7) ... Tied for 43rd in the 96-player field at the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate (4/13) ... Recorded his career-best finish at the Big 12 Championship (t-28) at Whispering Pines (4/24) ... Shot 5-under in his final two rounds to help lift the Bears to the NCAA Championship with a tie for 18th at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional (5/15) ... Tied for 53rd in his second NCAA Championship appearance (5/29).

2022-23 (Sophomore): Played a career-high 33 rounds in 11 tournaments ... Improved his stroke average by nearly three strokes from his freshman season ... Tripled his rounds at par or better with nine in 2022-23 ... Notched his career-first top-10 finish at the Bear Brawl in October ... Tallied four top-25s ... Opened the season with a 76th place finish at the Gopher Invitational ... Shot an even-par 216 to finish tied for 14th at the MCC River Classic at Bear Ridge Golf Club ... Opened with a 69 and closed with a 71 to card a 2-under 214 and a tie for 24th at the Trinity Forest Invitational ... Went 1-3-1 in his second appearance at the Big 12 Match Play at Houston Oaks ... Closed with a final-round 69 to record his career-first top-10 at the Bear Brawl and Ridgewood Country Club ... Carded a fourth top-25 finish of the season at the Border Olympics with a tie for 13th in Laredo ... Opened with a 70, before finishing tied for 51st at the Prestige ... Closed with an even-par 72 in the final round of the Aggie Invitational to record a tie for 30th ... Finished 57th at the Thunderbird Collegiate ... Tied for 30th at the Big 12 Championship ... Made his NCAA postseason debut with a tie for 32nd at the Morgan Hill Regional ... Finished 151st in his NCAA Championship debut.
 
2021-22 (Freshman): Played 20 rounds in seven tournaments … 82.14% of his rounds in the lineup counted towards the team score, which was third-best on the team … Made his collegiate debut at the Colonial Collegiate Invitational (10/4) and finished tied for 66^th … Won his career-first match-play match against TCU’s Jacob Skov 2&1 at the Big 12 Match Play Championship (10/5) … Finished tied for 70^th as an individual at the Border Olympics (2/15) … Shot his first two collegiate rounds at par or better in the Cabo Collegiate (3/1) and tied for 48^th … Recorded a tie for 72^nd at the rain-shortened All-American Intercollegiate (3/22) … Tied for 66^th at the Aggie Invitational (4/10) … Shot a second-round 71 and finished 68^th as an Individual in the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate (4/16) … Carded a career-best tie for 37^th at the Big 12 Championship.

Personal: Zach is a communications major who likes to hunt and fish… The son of Paul and Dana Heffernan… Mom Dana also went to Baylor.