Naval Academy Athletics

On the Links with Musto
• 2018 Patriot League Player of the Year
• 2018 Patriot League Individual Medalist
• 2018 Patriot League Rookie of the Year
• 2018 First-Team All-Patriot League

 

2019-20 // Junior Year
• Paced the team in stroke average, covering five events and 14 rounds with a 72.43 average
• Navy played in just one spring tournament (The Invitational at Savannah Harbor) before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Garnered Patriot League Golfer of the Week honors after earning medalist honors for a third time in his career when he shared the honor with teammate Thomas Garbee at The Doc Gimmler with a 4-under par 206 ... matched his career-low round with a 3-under par 67 in the final round
• As a team, Navy shot a school-record 6-under par 834 to win The Doc Gimmler by 9 strokes ... the Mids shot a then program-low 3-under par 277 to open the tournament before breaking that mark in the final round with a 6-under par 274
• Picked up league recognition for a second time following a 14th-place finish out of 98 competitors at the Phoenix Invitational with a 4-under par 209 ... he again matched his career-low with a 4-under par 207
• Navy, as a team, shot two of its lowest rounds in program history to place sixth in the 16-team, 54-hole Phoenix Invitational ... the Mids shot a 279 in the final round which is tied as the fourth-lowest one-day, four-score total, while their second-round 281 stands as the sixth lowest in school history

2018-19 // Sophomore Year
• Owned the team’s third-lowest stroke average, covering seven events and 17 rounds with a 75.18 average
• Turned in five top-20 finishes, including three top-10 showings
• Opened the year at The Doc Gimmler, where he shot his two lowest rounds of the year with a 70 in the second round and a 67 in the final round to place 11th with a 1-over par 211
• Followed up with a fifth-place 5-over par 149 at the Lehigh Invitational
• Finished ninth at the Abarta Coca-Cola Collegiate with a 2-over par 146
• Tallied his third top-10 finish of the year with a sixth-place showing at the Navy Spring Invitational where he shot a 5-over par 147
• Concluded the year with a 17th-place finish at the Patriot League Championship where he posted a 6-over par 222

2017-18 // Freshman Year
• Perhaps the most decorated rookie in program history, Musto became just the second golfer overall and first from Navy to earn Patriot League Player and Rookie of the Year recognition in the same season when he claimed individual medalist honors at the 2018 Patriot League Championship by six strokes
• He is the program’s eighth Patriot League individual medalist and first since 2013 (Chris House) and is Navy’s fifth Patriot League Rookie of the Year and first since 2011 (David Hall)
• Owned the team’s second-lowest stroke average (75.25), seeing action in seven tournaments
• Just missed finishing in the top 20 in his collegiate debut, putting together a 7-over par 147 at placing 24th at the Bucknell Fall Invitational
• In just his second collegiate tournament, he won a six-man playoff at the Georgetown Intercollegiate to take medalist honors for the first time in his career with a 6-over par 219
• Turned in a 15-over par 231 to place 63rd at the NCAA Regional in Norman, Okla.
• Paired up with Matthew Starobin to halve their four-ball match against Army’s Nick Turner and Joe Gerardi before dealing James McKee a 2&1 loss in single action in the annual Star Match

High School
• 2016 graduate of Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, Va.
• Four-year golf letter winner who garnered First-Team All-Met honors in 2015
• Member of Paul IV’s WCAC Championship-winning team in 2014
• Crowned the WCAC Individual Champion in 2015

Personal
• Son of Bill and Julia Musto
• Majoring in Quantitative Economics
• Attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa. during the 2016-17 academic year
• Father played golf at William & Mary