Men's Golf Inks Four Standouts

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville men's golf team inked one of the top classes in school history by signing four highly decorated student-athletes to National Letters of Intent for 2016.

Starting in the fall of the 2016, the Cardinals will welcome Calle Hagstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Trevor Johnson (Brentwood, Tenn.) to the men's golf program, while Keegan de Lange (Pretoria, South Africa) and Erik Dulik (Great Falls, Va.) are set to join the Cardinals for the spring portion of the 2015-16 campaign.

Hagstrom is a member of the Swedish National Golf Team and Kungsbacka Golfklubb. He has had success not only in Europe, but also the United States, earning medalist honors at the 2015 AJGA Bishops Gate Academy Preseason Junior in Ocala, Fla.

"Calle has competed at the highest level of junior golf all over the world," head coach Mark Crabtree said. "He has outstanding fundamentals and plays with lots of maturity. Calle will make a huge impact on the program."

In 2015, Hagstrom also has claimed the U-22 Swedish Match-Play Championship. A member of Team Sweden, Hagstrom helped lead his country to a second-place finish at the 2015 European Boys Championship and the 2015 Toyota Junior World Cup.

Johnson helped lead Brentwood High School to the Tennessee Class AAA State Championship in 2015. Recently, Johnson was also selected to play in the 2015 Tennessee Junior Cup, hosted by PGA Tour member, Scott Stallings. Johnson represented the West in the event that features the best junior golfers in the state of Tennessee.

"Johnson is a passionate Cardinal fan," Crabtree said. "He will be a great addition to the program. His game has developed tremendously over the past year, and we anticipate continual improvement at the collegiate level."

De Lange, a native of Pretoria, South Africa is the seventh-ranked junior player in South Africa and the reigning Boys British Amateur Championship runner-up.

A member of the South African Junior National Team, de Lange won the 2015 Dr. Bam Nomads National Order of Merit Championship, hosted by the South African Junior Golf Association and the Free State Open hosted by the Amateur Open Circuit. de Lange also has a runner-up finish in the 2014 Joburg Junior Open on his resume.

"We are very pleased to add Keegan to our program," Crabtree said. "He is a very talented and dedicated player as evidenced by his runner-up finish this past summer at the British Boys Championship. His impact on our team should be immediately starting next spring."

Dulik, comes to the Cardinals after transferring from Delaware. Dulik appeared in nine tournaments for the Blue Hens as a freshman, including the CAA Championship.
In his first collegiate event, Dulik shot 71-66, earning a second-place finish after falling in a playoff. Dulik, the 2015 Middle Atlantic Amateur Champion, had also earned top-10 finishes in 2015 at the Allegheny Amateur (eighth), the Washington Metropolitan Amateur (Stroke Play, first/Match-Play Semifinals), the Virginia State Amateur Qualifier (T-seventh), and the Virginia State Open (T-10^th).

"We are excited to add Erik to the program," Crabtree said. "He has demonstrated the ability to compete both at the collegiate and amateur levels and we anticipate he will do the same for us. I found Erik to be a truly quality young man who has a great desire to take his game to the next level."

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