The Georgia Bulldogs got off to a strong start to the 2016 Spring season, placing third in their season opener in Puerto Rico and winning the following week in Mexico. In the victory in Cabo, the Bulldogs had three players score top-10 finishes, with Clarkesville senior Lee McCoy tying for second, Valdosta senior Sepp Straka placing sixth and Augusta junior Greyson Sigg … [Read more...]
Augusta’s Vaughn Taylor revives career with Pebble Beach victory; Earns return invitation to 2016 Masters
After a long detour through golf’s wilderness, Augusta’s Vaughn Taylor found his way home in the unlikeliest of his circumstances, far from his home town. After more than a decade without a victory and lacking exempt status on the PGA Tour since 2012, Taylor pulled off a dramatic comeback victory in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, rallying from six back after 54 holes to edge out … [Read more...]
Women’s college preview: Freshman trio spark UGA’s resurgence
After failing to qualify for the NCAA Championship each of the last six seasons, the Georgia women’s golf team has returned to national prominence, concluding the 2015-16 Fall schedule ranked eighth in the country by Golfstat. The Bulldogs won the NCAA women’s championship in 2001 and were regular NCAA qualifiers for the remainder of the decade, but the program faltered … [Read more...]
Skinner closes with 64 to take Senior Division opener
Sonny Skinner fired an 8-under 64 in the second round at Valdosta’s Kinderlou Forest to finish with a 9-under 135 total and win the season-opening Georgia PGA Senior Division tournament Jan. 24-25. Skinner, a long-time tour player with experience on the PGA, Web.com and Champions Tours who plays out of River Pointe in Albany, outdueled Marietta CC Director of Golf Stephen … [Read more...]
2016 college preview: Bulldogs top ranked among state teams
Georgia’s Division 1 college golf teams begin their Spring schedules this month, with Georgia Tech getting an early start in Hawaii Feb. 4-6. Kennesaw State also opens its Spring schedule in Hawaii Feb. 16-18, and Georgia opens in Puerto Rico Feb. 21-23, with Georgia Tech also in that field. Georgia Southern plays its first tournament Feb. 20-21 in Gainesville, Fla., with … [Read more...]
Mullinax, Wolfe win Swing Thought events in Georgia
Georgia residents Trey Mullinax and Chris Wolfe won two of three January tournaments on the Swing Thought Tour played along the Georgia coast. Mullinax, a St. Simons Island resident and a 2016 Web.com Tour member, won a tournament Jan. 12-13 at Brunswick CC, shooting 9-under 133 for 36 holes to finish two strokes ahead of recent UGA golfer Joey Garber. Mullinax, a member of … [Read more...]
Youngsters, veterans among Georgians on Web.com Tour
When the 2016 Web.com Tour begins this week in Panama, there will be plenty of new names among the Georgia contingent, with some familiar faces missing from the tour’s roster of players with ties to the state. Patton Kizzire, Henrik Norlander and Luke List, the top three Georgia golfers on the 2015 Web.com Tour, have all moved up to the PGA Tour this year, and several … [Read more...]
Ramsey debuts on LPGA Tour this season; Joins Burnett, Carter as lone Georgians
The 2016 LPGA Tour schedule begins this week in the Bahamas, and just like recent seasons, there are only a handful of Georgia golfers among the tour’s members. Two Georgians begin the 2016 season with exempt status, with a third enjoying limited status after finishing outside the top 100 last year. One of the two exempt players is Ashlan Ramsey of Milledgeville, the former … [Read more...]
3 Georgians begin Champions Tour in Hawaii; Andrade, Dunlap, Nelson in field for ’16 opener
In terms of numbers, Georgia does not have a huge presence on the Champions Tour, with just five residents of the Peach State holding status for the 2016 season. But of the five, three qualified for the 2015 Schwab Cup Championship, the season ending event that features the top 30 money winners from the season. The other two Georgians are former major championship winners, … [Read more...]