Both Georgia Tech and Georgia begin the 2019-20 golf season with top-10 rankings, as the two teams aim for a national title with veteran rosters. Despite the loss of All-American Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern has hopes of a return to the NCAA Championship, while the state’s other Division 1 programs hope for better results this season. GEORGIA TECH was ranked fourth in … [Read more...]
College round-up: Tech Captures ACC; Southern Loses in Match Play
Georgia Tech won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship to earn a spot in the NCAA Regionals, which will be played May 14-15 at six sites around the country, one of them in Athens at the UGA course. Georgia Southern won the stroke play title of the Sun Belt Conference, but lost in the semifinals of match play and will hope for an at-large bid to Regionals. Georgia … [Read more...]
Kennesaw State Men’s Golf Finish Seventh at Linger Longer Invitational
EATONTON, Ga. – The Kennesaw State men's golf team saved its best for last, carding a 5-under par 283 to move up three spots in the standings and place seventh in the 15-team Linger Longer Invitational that concluded Sunday at the par-72, 6,991-yard The Landing Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee. Led by seniors Wyatt Larkin and Pablo Rodriguez-Tabernero Torres, who both posted a … [Read more...]
Kennesaw State’s Wyatt Larkin Shares Co-Medalist Honors at Tiger Invitational
OPELIKA, Ala. – Solid performances throughout the lineup led to a season-low round as the Kennesaw State men's golf team posted the second-lowest score of the day en route to a fifth-place finish at the 16-team Tiger Invitational that concluded Tuesday at the par-72, 7,289-yard Grand National Lake Course in Opelika, Alabama. Leading the charge was senior Wyatt Larkin, who … [Read more...]
Georgia Tech Begins Spring Schedule Ranked No. 2: Georgia Starts at 22
The Spring college golf schedule has already begin, with Georgia Tech, the state’s highest-ranked team after the Fall season, playing its first 2019 tournament this week in Hawaii. The Yellow Jackets ended the Fall ranked the second in the country in the Golfstat rankings, followed by Georgia at 22. Georgia Southern (43) and Kennesaw State (54) are both in position to earn … [Read more...]
Kennesaw State Men’s Golf Finishes 12th at Carpet Capital Collegiate
ROCKY FACE, Ga. – The Kennesaw State men's golf team placed 12th at the 15-team Carpet Capital Collegiate that concluded Sunday at the par-72, 7,178-yard The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Ga. The Owls carded a final-round 10-over par 298 to finish at 22-over par 886 in their 2018-19 season-opener. Tennessee, which tied No. 9 Georgia Tech at 21-under par 843, defeated the … [Read more...]
Kennesaw State’s Grant Sutliff Qualifies for U.S. Amateur Championship
MACON, GEORGIA – Kennesaw State redshirt freshman Grant Sutliff qualified for the 2018 U.S. Amateur Championship after tying for fourth place during sectional qualifying that concluded Tuesday (July 24) at the Brickyard Golf Club in Macon, Ga. Sutliff posted rounds of 71 and 70 for a 3-under par total of 141 on the par-72, 7,128-yard layout to tie Davis Stone of Brentwood, … [Read more...]
Georgia Southern’s Barron Captures GSGA Title at Athens Country Club
The last three times Athens Country Club hosted the GSGA Championship, the event was won by golfers who were either members of the golf team at UGA or had recently completed their college careers in Athens. That did not happen Sunday in the 2018 Georgia Amateur, as Georgia Southern golfer Brett Barron captured the title in relatively easy fashion, carding four rounds in the … [Read more...]
Peach State Ties Palmetto State at GA-SC Junior Challenge Match, 8-8
MACON, Ga. - After a day of exciting matches, the Peach State and Palmetto State finish in a tie as the Georgia-South Carolina Junior Challenge Match ends 8-8. The 41st annual competition took place at Idle Hour Club, July 22-23. In the eight matches on day two at Idle Hour Club, Georgia earned the win in five of them. Davis Brainard of Dunwoody beat Harry Reynolds … [Read more...]