2025-26 Men's Golf Roster

Nelson Chenault

Rhett South

  • Ht./Wt.:
    5-9 / 150
  • Class:
    Redshirt Junior
  • Letters:
    3
  • Hometown:
    Fayetteville, Ark.
  • High School:
    Farmington H.S.
  • Prev School:
    Farmington H.S.

Summary

Biography


2025 OVC Individual Champion
2024 & 2025 All-OVC Team
2024 OVC Freshman of the Year

Summer 2025: 17th in the Southeastern Amateur ... T6th in the Arkansas State Amateur.

2024-25 (R-Sophomore): OVC Conference Champion ... First Team All-OVC Selection ... Played in all 12 events with a stroke average of 72.97 ... Ended the year with 15 rounds of par or better ... Currently ranks 4th All-Time on the Career Stroke Average List (72.51) ... Tied his career low 65 in round two of the OVC Championship.

Summer 2024: Finished 3rd in the Arkansas State Amateur … Qualified for the Dogwood
Amateur with a round of 69 … T5th in the Northern Amateur

2023-24 (R-Freshman): All-OVC team selection and OVC Freshman of the Year ... Competed in all 12 events for Little Rock with a 72.06 scoring average, ranking sixth all-time in program history ... Ended the year with 18 rounds of par-or-better (17th most all time), including four rounds in the 60s, and two individual top-10 finishes ... Second round 65 at the Mirabel Maui Jim Intercollegiate was the lowest round in school history for a freshman and the sixth lowest round all-time in school history … Finished seventh in The Clerico (Oct. 23-24) and the OVC Championship (Apr. 21-23) ... Led the team in three tournaments on the year, finishing among the top-three in eleven different tournaments.
 
2022-23 (Freshman): Redshirted. Did not compete for the Trojans in 2022-23.

Prior to Little Rock: Four year letterwinner at Farmington High School ... 2021 4A State Individual and Overall Champion ... Three-time individual conference champion ... 4A Individual State Runner-Up in 2020 ... Helped lead Farmington to three conference titles as the Cardinals were the 4A State Runners-Up in 2020 ... 2020 ASGA Junior Match Play Champion ... 2022 ASGA Junior Amateur Champion ... Two-time U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier. 

Personal: Birthday is October 1st ... Son of Barron and Melinda South ... Has two brothers - Trace, who is a pole vaulter at Arkansas State, and Eli - twin brother in the United States Army ... Plans to major in finance.

South's Career Statistics:
Year Events Rounds Strokes Average Low Round Par - 10/20
2023-24 12   36 2,594 72.06 65 18 2/4
2024-25 12 36 2,627 72.97 65 15 1/4
TOTALS 24 72 5,221 72.51 65 29 3/8

South's Career Bests:
Low Round: 65 – Mirabel Maui Jim Intercollegiate (September 8th, 2023) & 65 - OVC Championship (April 21st, 2025)
Low 54-Hole Tournament: 207 - Mirabel Maui Jim Intercollegiate (September 7-9, 2023)
Best Finish: 1st - Ohio Valley Conference Championship (April 20-22, 2025)

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Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    5'9" 150 lbs

  • 2023-24Redshirt Freshman

    5'9" 150 lbs

  • 2024-25Redshirt Sophomore

    5'9" 150 lbs

  • 2025-26Redshirt Junior

    5'9" 150 lbs