2025-26 Men's Golf Roster
Joy, Ike

Ike Joy
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 155
- Hometown:
- Denver, N.C.
Bio
2023-24 (R-So.):
- Season stroke average: 73.50
- Fall stroke average: 72.11
- Spring stroke average: 74.24
- Played eight of 26 rounds at par or better (30.7 percent)
- 83.3 percent of his rounds were counting scores for the team (15-of-18)
- Finished the season with 76 birdies
- Named to the 2024 Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar team
- Posted a pair of under-par scores during the Flames’ fall tournament schedule
- Finished tied for 36th place with a 1-under par 215 (72-70-73) at the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational
- Finished tied for 52nd place with a 2-under par 211 (69-71-71) at the Ka’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational
- Finished tied for 20th place at the General Hackler Championship with a 3-over par 219 (72-73-74)
- Helped the Flames claim their first-ever Conference USA Men’s Golf Championship
- Finished tied for 16th place during the stroke play portion of the CUSA Men’s Golf Championship with a 5-over par 221 (73-74-74)
- Won both his semifinal (Sam Houston’s Bret Gray) and finals (UTEP’s Patrick Foley) match play events by a score of 3&2
- Made his first-ever NCAA Regional appearance by finishing tied for 47th place at the NCAA Stanford Regional with a 4-over par 214 (72-71-71)
2022-23 (R-Fr.):
- Season stroke average: 73.10
- Fall stroke average: 71.17
- Spring stroke average: 73.93
- Played six of his 20 rounds at par or better (30.0 percent)
- Posted two sub-70 rounds
- Competed in three of Liberty’s team events as an individual
- Tied for seventh place with a 3-over par 213 (70-71-72) at the Wildcat Fall Invitational as an individual
- Tied for 17th place with a 5-over par 149 (77-72) at the Wolfpack Individual Invite
- Tied for 22nd place with a 5-over par 215 (75-71-69) at the Sea Best Invitational
- Did not compete for the Flames during the season
- Graduated from Iron Station Christian Academy in Iron Station, N.C.
- Finished tied for 15th place at the 2021 USGA US Junior Qualifying event
- Finished in fifth place at the 2020 Sung Hyun Park Junior Championship
- Finished in third place at the 2020 Greenwood Junior Championship
- Birthday is on November 10
- Son of Jennifer and Bryan Joy
- Graduated with a degree in criminal justice in May 2023
- Currently pursuing a master’s degree in public relations
- What’s one essential you always need on the road?
- My pillow, I can sleep anywhere with that thing
- If you could have any celebrity caddy for a day, who would it be and why?
- I would get Shaq to caddy for me, I just think it’d be hilarious
- Best pre-game snack?
- Bagel with cream cheese
- Who is your golf inspiration?
- Tiger is how I got into the game but now it’s Scottie Scheffler because of who he is on and off the course
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