UNC Greensboro

As an assistant, J.D. Bass will work as the assistant director for the UNCG Bridgestone Golf  Collegiate Championship hosted by UNCG, he will also be responsible for recruiting, conducting practices, and player development.

Last year, Bass won the Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship and became the first male Spartan golfer to win a SoCon title and the fourth to win a conference title in the past 30 years. He was awarded the SoCon April Athlete of the Month and the SoCon Golfer of the Week for the second week of April.

During his junior season at UNCG, he was named Southern Conference Golfer of the Week on February 7 for his top-ten finish at the Rice Intercollegiate and was one of three players to play in all 11 tournaments. He finished second on the team with a 75.10 scoring average, recorded one top ten finish (Rice Intercollegiate SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"nbsp; /SPANTunica National Intercollegiate o:p/o:p/FONT/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"o:pFONT size=2nbsp;/FONT/o:p/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"FONT size=2In the 2004-05 season, Bass was named second team All-Southern Conference and was one of five players to compete in all 10 tournaments. He finished the season second on the squad with a 73.97 scoring average, finished in the top 20 in four consecutive tournaments, and recorded top ten finishes in back-to-back tournaments (Birkdale Collegiate Classic - 7th, Furman Intercollegiate - t8). Bass shot a season-low 214 (72-70-72) in his 12th place finish at the 49er Collegiate Classic and recorded a 29th place finish at the Southern Conference Championship after firing a three-day total of 228 (80-74-74).o:p/o:p/FONT/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"o:pFONT size=2nbsp;/FONT/o:p/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"FONT size=2In his first season as a Spartan, he captured the individual crown at the Dogfight at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /st1:place w:st="on"Stoney Creek/st1:place with a one-over 145 (72-73) and won the Wofford Invitational with a season-low 54-hole score of 210 (69-68-73). He was ranked fourth on the team in scoring average (74.67), recorded an 11th place finish at the Winthrop Waterford Invitational (76-73), and carded a career-low four-under-par 68 in the second round of the Wofford Invitational. He placed 28th at the SoCon Championship (79-72-78=229).o:p/o:p/FONT/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"o:pFONT size=2nbsp;/FONT/o:p/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"FONT size=2In high school, Bass was a three-time (2000, 2001, 2003) North Western 4A Player-of-the-Year and was named Western North Carolina Player of the Year in 2002 and tabbed A.C. Reynolds High School team MVP (2002-03).o:p/o:p/FONT/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"o:pFONT size=2nbsp;/FONT/o:p/SPAN/PP class=BioInfo style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"FONT size=2As an amateur player he earned Asheville Citizen-Times Player of the Year and Polo Junior All-American honors in 2002 and captured the 2002 AJGA Henry Griffitts Junior and 2001 Signal Mountain Junior Titles. Bass won the amateur division of the 46th annual Skyview Open at Asheville Municipal Golf Course in July of 2005 posting a final round 70 to win the event by 13 strokes with a three-day 54-hole total of 196 (61-65-70). He also earned an alternate spot in the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.o:p/o:p/FONT/SPAN/P