University of Georgia Athletics
Georgia Golfers Hosting SICs On Monday
March 11, 2017 | Men's Golf
ATHENS, Ga. --- The Georgia men's golf team will be hosting the Southern Intercollegiate Championships on Monday at Athens Country Club.
The 36-hole tournament will consist of shotgun starts at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. There is no cost for admission.
The Bulldogs will field two squads for Monday's competition. One team will consist of senior Greyson Sigg, sophomore Tye Waller, and freshmen Will Chandler, Trevor Phillips and Spencer Ralston, while the other quintet will have senior Jaime Lopez Rivarola, junior Zach Healy, and sophomores Matthew Beringer, Jack Larkin Jr. and David Mackey.
"It's great that we get to see all 10 guys under tournament conditions," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "A tournament is so different than qualifying rounds. It's our chance to compete with each other and other teams on a course we're pretty familiar with. We'll be in the championship portion of the season next month, so an event like this will help us make some lineup decisions."
The Bulldogs have won the tournament each of the last two seasons since it was resurrected. Sigg was a co-medalist in 2016.
Joining the 19th-ranked Bulldogs will be No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 24 Arkansas, Kennesaw State, Furman, Lipscomb, Youngstown State, Chattanooga, USC-Upstate, Francis Marion, Stetson, Gardner-Webb, Savannah State, Western Carolina, Ohio State and Florida State.
The SICs were the brainchild of Georgia athletic director Herman Stegeman and Athens Country Club founder Lon Dudley in 1934. The first tournament was held in 1935 and ran annually through 1942. It resumed in 1946 and was held through 1965, then was re-launched in 1975 and ran through 1990. Past individual medalists include Wake Forest's Arnold Palmer in 1950, Oklahoma State's Bob Tway in 1979 and Centenary's Hal Sutton in 1980.
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