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2025-26 Men's Golf Roster

Chip Deegan

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Newport Beach, Calif.
  • High School Servite

Biography

• 2023 Patriot League Rookie of the Year
• 2025 PING All-Northeast Region
• 2025 Second-Team All-Patriot League

2024-25 // Junior Year

• Played in all 10 team events where he led the team with a 73.14 stroke average
• Turned in a pair of top-five finishes and six top-20 performances
• Posted Navy’s low score in six of the 10 tournaments, including a third-place finish at the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate where he shot a 6-under par 207 ... opened the tournament with a 6-under par 65
• Took fourth place at the Commander-In-Chief’s Cup where he shot a 1-under par 143
• Garnered Second-Team All-Patriot League honors with his 12th-place showing at the conference tournament ... he turned in a 4-over par 214
• Placed 14th at the Watersound Invitational with a 3-under par 213 to pace the Mids
• Finished 16th at the Folds of Honor Collegiate where he closed out the tournament with a 4-over par 217
• Opened the year with a 19th-place finish at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial ... the Mids went on to win the team title with a 3-under par 573.
• Earned a 4&2 victory over Tyson Sparks in singles play at the annual Army-Navy Star Match

2023-24 // Sophomore Year
• Competed in all five team-scored tournaments during the spring season where he owned a 74.73 stroke average
• Shot his low round of the season in his first competition of the year, a 69 at the Gators Invitational ... finished 21st among 84 competitors with a 1-over par 211
• After winning the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate his freshman year, he followed up with a 12-place 4-over par (217) performance
• Placed 69th at the Stitch Intercollegiate (+28, 241) leading up to the Patriot League Championship where he shot a 13-over par 229 to finish 21st

2022-23 // Freshman Year
• Appeared in all nine team-scored tournaments where he owned the team’s third-lowest stroke average (74.4)
• Named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year by a vote of the league’s coaches
• He is the sixth Navy player to earn Patriot League Rookie of the Year accolades, joining Ryan Wielgus (2006), Ben Hayes (2008), Peter Reilly (2009), David Hall (2011) and Charlie Musto (2018) ... he is the first Navy golfer to earn the honor by way of a vote as opposed to being the highest-placing rookie at the championship tournament
• Posted a trio of top-20 performances beginning with his eighth-place showing at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate where he paced the team by shooting par (213) to finish eighth
• Led the team with his third-place finish at the Carpetbagger Classic where he again shot par (144) and was named the Patriot League Golfer of the Week
• A week later, he garnered medalist honors with his 6-under par 207 (72-65-70) at the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate and again earned the Patriot League Golfer of the Week nod
• Shot the low round of the tournament and the lowest round of his career with a 6-under par 65 (8 birdies, 2 bogeys) in the second round of the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate
• Though scores were not counted by Golfstat due to the unique playing format, he tied for second at the Commander-In-Chief’s Cup where he finished 7-over (223)
• Finished just outside of the top 20 (23rd) at the Patriot League Championship where he recorded an 18-over par 234 (78-77-79)

High School 
• 2022 graduate of Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif.
• Four-year golf letter winner
• Two-time First-Team All-Trinity League selection who garnered First-Team All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) honors as a senior
• Served as golf team captain his junior and senior years
• Helped lead Servite HS to its first CIF/Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) SoCal Boys High School Championship in 2021
• Guided Servite HS to the CIF Sectional and Trinity League titles in 2019
• 2021 Toyota Tour Cup Q-School Champion
• 2021 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Rolex Scholastic Junior All-American
• High school teammates with Jack Cantlay (Long Beach State golf), Ben Hong (Boston College golf) and William Sung (Columbia golf)

Personal
• Son of Chad and Erin Deegan
• Majoring in Quantitative Economics
• Named to the Commandant’s List (F2023)
• Brother, Chad, is a 2022 graduate of the Naval Academy ... he was a four-year golf letter winner and garnered Second-Team All-Patriot League recognition as a freshman in 2019

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

  • 2023-24Sophomore

  • 2024-25Junior

  • 2025-26Senior