THE FLATS – Georgia Tech golf head coach Bruce Heppler has signed a five-year contract extension and the Yellow Jackets have officially named Jeff Paton and Evan Smith as assistant coaches, Tech announced on Monday. Heppler’s contract extension runs through the 2028-29 season. In his 30th year as head coach, Heppler has led the Yellow Jackets to 14 Atlantic Coast Conference … [Read more...]
Tech Golf Finishes 8th at Visit Knoxville Collegiate
LOUDON, Tenn. – Freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebäckskil, Sweden) shot a 1-under-par 69 Sunday to pace Georgia Tech, and the 11th-ranked Yellow Jackets closed with a 1-over-par round of 281 and placed eighth at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate. Defending NCAA Champion Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who shot 1-over-par 71 in the final round at Tennessee National Golf Club, tied for … [Read more...]
No. 11 Georgia Tech Golf Tees Off Fall Season In Tennessee
THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s golf team, preseason ranked No. 11 in the Bushnell/Golfweek coaches poll, opens its 2024 fall schedule Friday at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate at Tennessee National Golf Club in Loudon, Tenn., outside of Knoxville. The tournament kicks off a five-event fall slate that will take the Yellow Jackets to Tennessee, Illinois and Texas, with the final two … [Read more...]
Tech Golf Ranked No. 11 Ahead of Fall Season
THE FLATS – Led by reigning NCAA Champion Hiroshi Tai and three other returning golfers who played significant roles in helping Georgia Tech reach the semifinals of the 2024 NCAA Championship, the Yellow Jackets have been ranked No. 11 ahead of the fall season in the Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Poll. Tech faces this schedule following the loss of the world’s top amateur … [Read more...]
Three Yellow Jackets Set for 124th U.S. Amateur
THE FLATS – Past, present and future Yellow Jackets – rising junior Hiroshi Tai, 2024 graduate Bartley Forrester and incoming freshman Albert Hansson – are set to compete in the 124th edition of the United States Amateur Championship, which begins Monday at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. They are part of a 312-player field which will play 36 holes of stroke … [Read more...]
Georgia Tech Golf Receives Team Academic Award from GCAA
NORMAN, Okla. – With a 3.57 combined grade-point average in 2023-24 and a roster highlighted by the Atlantic Coast Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year and three Academic All-Americans, Georgia Tech’s golf team was honored by the Golf Coaches Association of America Tuesday with a GCAA Outstanding Team Academic Award. A total of 240 team across NCAA Divisions I, II and III, … [Read more...]
Three Tech Golfers Honored as All-America Scholars by GCAA
NORMAN, Okla. – Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester, Christo Lamprecht and Hiroshi Tai have been named Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Forrester, who competed in 2023-24 as a graduate student, has been so honored for the fourth time in his career, a first for a Georgia Tech player, while Lamprecht, who graduated in May, received the … [Read more...]
Lamprecht, Tai Make CSC Academic All-American At-Large Team
THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht and Hiroshi Tai have been named to the Academic All-America Men’s At-Large Team announced Wednesday by the College Sports Communicators. The Tech players, each of whom were named to the ACC All-Academic Golf Team last month, were chosen from a vast number of finalists from the sports of women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s ice … [Read more...]
Three Golfers Make CSC Academic All-District At-Large Team
THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester, Christo Lamprecht and Hiroshi Tai have been named to the Academic All-District At-Large Team announced Tuesday by the College Sports Communicators. The Tech trio, each of whom were named to the ACC All-Academic Golf Team last month, are also finalists for Academic All-America honors (student-athletes denoted by asterisk in link … [Read more...]