General: California native who ranked as high as No. 39 in the Class of 2022 at the end of May, 2022, according to the American Junior Golf Association … Committed to the Yellow Jackets before he ever played in a high school event … Arrived at Georgia Tech with three victories and eight other top-10 finishes in AJGA events since 2018 … Plays golf right-handed, but is left-handed for everything else … Second oldest of four children … Enjoys watching football, working out, as well as playing table tennis, football and basketball … Majoring in business administration, earning Faculty Honors in both the fall and spring of his freshman year.
2023-24: Tournament Results
Worked his way into the field for all six spring events, the first five as an individual and then as a part of Tech’s lineup for the Calusa Cup, where he tied for 12th place (220, +4) … Also tied for 12th at the Linger Longer Invitational (211, -5), posting his low score of the year … Next best showing was a tie for 37th at the Watersound Invitational (218, +2) … Qualified for Tech’s lineup at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational in the fal, and played as an individual at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational, tying for 49th (220, +4) … Compiled 73.10 stroke average over 21 rounds … Went 1-2 in his matches at the Cypress Point Classic … Was Tech’s alternate player for the ACC Championship
2023 Amateur Highlights: Won the 2023 Fresno City Championship (203, -13) … Finished second at the NCGA Amateur Stroke Play Championship (208, -5), after tying for first and falling in a playoff … Tied for 35th place at the Dogwood Invitational (284, -4)
2022-23: Tournament Results
Competed in two spring events as an individual, posting a high finish of T-49 at the Linger Longer Invitational (226, +10) … Won his individual match against Ohio State (3&1 over Joe Wilson IV) in the Ramblin’ Wreck Match Play … Played in three of Tech’s four fall events and compiled a 71.00 stroke average across nine rounds … Top finish was a tie for 20th place at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate (214, -2) … Also tied for 24th in the Maui Jim Intercollegiate (205. -5) … Ranked as high as No. 160 in Golfstat and No. 148 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index at the end of the fall season.
Junior Golf: Advanced to match play at the U.S. Junior Amateur, tying for 11th place with rounds of 68-71 in stroke play (139, -4) … Collected three tournament wins and seven other top-10 finishes in AJGA events from 2018 through his signing with Tech, including a 10-stroke victory this year in the AJGA Junior at San Jose … Also earned a top-10 finish at the AJGA Ping An Bank Open Championship and reached the round of 32 at the California Amateur Championship after tying for 12th place in stroke play … Previously won the 2020 AJGA Longbow Golf Club Open and the 2018 AJGA Mahoning Valley Hospital Foundation Junior All-Star event … Ranked as high as No. 22 in his class in the Golfweek/Sagarin Boys Index (No. 35 at end of May, 2022), and No. 43 by the Junior Golf Scoreboard.
High School: Four-year letterwinner in golf for coach Jed Noonkester at Clovis North High School … Named the top male student-athlete across all sports following his senior year … Tri-River Athletic Conference MVP in 2022 … Earned all-section and all-league honors in 2019, 2021, 2022 (2020 season cancelled due to COVID-19) … Won the California Interscholastic Federation Central Section Championship in 2021 and led Clovis North to a D1 Central Section Championship in 2022 … Set a Clovis North high school tournament record with a bogey-free 63 in his very first competition as a ninth-grader … Valedictorian of his high school class with straight A’s, including 11 AP classes … National Merit finalist in 2022 … Won the College Board’s AP Scholar of Distinction Award.
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Coach Heppler on Tran: “Aidan is a very talented golfer, and brilliant. His school work is off the charts. His family lived on the East Coast for a while, and he reached out to us. He asked us a lot of questions and was engaged in the conversation as much as his parents. He was knowledgeable about our program. His results were pretty good at a young age, and he played phenomenally well when we first saw him play in California. His golf swing is like Tiger Woods. We made him an offer right then, and he stuck to his commitment even after other big programs got in on him. He’s as prepared academically as anyone we’ve ever recruited. He was invited to five AJGA events this summer, and he turned all of them down because he had two siblings still playing, and he gave up his own golf to get them to tournaments. He’s very unselfish. He’s gotten bigger and stronger, and he’s got good rhythm in his swing. He’ll have a good career here.”
| Low | Par/- | Finish Top | |||||||||
| Season | Rounds | 54-holes | Round | Rounds | Events | 1 | 5 | 10 | W-L | W-L% | Average |
| 2022-23 | 15 | 205 | 65 | 7 | 5 | – | – | – | 187-228 | .451 | 72.93 |
| Totals | 15 | 205 | 65 | 7 | 5 | – | – | – | 187-228 | .451 | 72.93 |
