Theo Baker
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Weight:
- 175
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- Hometown:
- Colchester, England
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- Year:
- Junior
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- High School:
- The Sixth Form College, Colchester
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- Previous College:
- Mount Mercy University
Bio
2024-25 (Sophomore at Mount Mercy): Played in 29 rounds across 12 events where he averaged 72.6 (adj.). He ended the season ranked 36 across all of NAIA. Baker collected three wins in his sophomore season with Mount Mercy at the Mustang Fall Championship, the NAIA National Preview, and the Verhille Invitational. He also logged three other top 10s.
HONORS:
- HAC Men’s Golf All-Conference team 2024 & 2025
- 2025 NAIA PING Central region team
- 2025 NAIA Men’s Golf third team All-American
2023-24 (Freshman at Mount Mercy): Played 27 rounds for the Mustangs in his first season and averaged a 75.5 (adj.) in 12 events. Baker landed among the ten in five tournaments, highlighted by a second place finish at the Verhille Invitational on April 16-17, 2024 where he shot three-over on the weekend.
PERSONAL: Theo is the son of Sarah and Mark Baker. Mark Baker is a professional golfer who has played one event on the PGA tour.
News mentions
Carson-Newman is in a tie for fourth after the first two rounds of the SAC Men’s Golf Tournament with 18 to play before the cut for the match play segment.
C-N was in a fight with Anderson all day for the final spot in the match play segment of the SAC tournament, but fell just short with bogeys down the stretch to finish 5th.
The Eagles finished in a tie for fourth at the Music City Invitational, marking their highest finish of the year by four spots.
The C-N Men’s Golf team put together a second round of three-under to hop two spots in the standings and put them in contention for a podium finish heading into the final day.
Bowen Wentz and Dylan Frein both recorded top 30 finishes for the Eagles, who played strong through 15 holes before big scores got the better of them to end out the round.
After an even par first round for C-N, strong winds caused trouble for the Eagles to land them middle of the pack after 36 holes.
With multiple weather delays throughout the day, Eagles Men’s Golf fought through to score well at the Ralph Hargett Memorial, getting through 27 holes at Rolling Hills Country Club.
The Eagles dropped from 5th to 8th in the final round of the Ralph Hargett Memorial, tying at +14 with Ferris State.
The junior’s seven-under 65 ties the 2nd lowest round in C-N golf history and helped C-N move up into solo 11th of 17 teams on the final day of the event.
Thanks to help from Wentz’s stellar second round, the Eagles shot two-under in their second 18, landing just outside the top ten.
The Eagles fell two places from the 2nd round, but had three golfers finish inside the top 40.
Theo Baker and Brady Wentz both sit in the top 25, while the team sits three strokes back of the top five.
Carson-Newman caught fire in the final holes of the second 18 to shoot a team-best score of even-par and sits just outside the top five.
Dylan Frein rallied from a tough start to his final round to land top 10 in the field while C-N has their worst day of the tournament to fall two places.
Carson-Newman men’s golf will make the long drive up to Findlay, Ohio for the Doc Spragg Invitational to face unfamiliar Midwest foes receiving votes ahead of the Eagles in the Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches’ poll and set them up for Clippd rankings, which come out in the next few weeks.
Aidan Collier, Dylan Frein, Theo Baker all finished top 25 or better while a few unfortunate double-bogeys in the home stretch would drop the Eagles two positions.
With a two-round total at five-under, Collier holds a one-stroke lead over the next competitor while the Eagles team sits solo 7th above #3 North Georgia and #4 Lincoln Memorial.
The men will travel to Albany, Georgia to the Hurricane Invitational, where another challenging field of 15 teams will Duke it out at the hosting Doublegate Country Club.
The Carson-Newman men’s golf team shot a team-best round in the final 18 holes for a two-over showing as a team. That would move them up one spot on the leaderboard to finish 13th.
After shooting 294 in the first round and sitting tied for 7th, the Eagles Men’s golf team fell to 14th place with a 309 in round two.
Carson-Newman men’s golf heads to Gainesville, Georgia for their first 72 holes of the 2025-26 season, where they will compete with six of the top ten teams in the nation for the Mizuno Intercollegiate.