Bulldogs Place Fourth, Advance to Match Play at SEC Championships

Friday, April 26

St Simons Islands, Ga.

University of Georgia

SEC Championships

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Bulldogs Place Fourth, Advance to Match Play at SEC Championships

April 26, 2024 | Men's Golf

Round Three Results Match Play QF Tee Times

ST SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – The No. 23 Georgia men's golf team finished tied for fourth after it concluded the stroke play portion of the Southeastern Conference Championships after an even par, 280 result on Friday morning on the Seaside Course at the Sea Island Golf Club.

Five Fast Facts
• The team was paced by Ben van Wyk on Friday, carding a one-under 69 with a pair of birdies on the final three holes to close out the rounds. The graduate student also shot 68 during the first round, upping his number of rounds in the 60s this season to 14 which leads the team.
• Camden Smith earned 15 birdies across the three rounds, which ties him with Matthew Ridel for the second-most of any golfer in the field.
• Georgia leads the field in scoring average on par 5s at 4.47 per hole, good for 16-under across the three rounds of stroke play. Smith earned the best average in the statistic for the Bulldogs at an average of 4.17 per par 5, totaling five-under.
• Buck Brumlow finished tied for the second-most pars in the field with 41. With five birdies, the junior earned par or better in 46 of the 54 holes in stroke play.
• Georgia has now advanced to match play for the fourth time in the past five SEC Championships and will be looking to earn a spot in the semifinals for the first time since the tournament added match play in 2017.

Key Quotes
"We accomplished what we wanted to, and that was to play solid for three straight days and make it to match play," head coach Chris Haack said. "Now, it's one match at a time. We'll stay focused and won't get ahead of ourselves. We'll be competing against a really good Arkansas team that's played well this year, so we will have our hands full in every match. We need to go out and execute so we can get the victory."

"Heading into tomorrow, I'm just going to go out there, my play game and do my thing," Smith said. "I told Coach Haack and Coach DeMoss I'm ready to go out there and lock in. I'm pretty confident in myself, so I plan to go out there and rack up that birdie count. That's the one thing I'm focused on. You make a birdie, you make a double bogie, whatever – it's just one hole. I want to go out there and play the best guys to prove to everyone that I can accomplish what I set my mind to."

Up Next
Georgia will tee off on hole number 10 at 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 27 to begin its match play quarterfinal competition against fifth-seeded Arkansas. The winner will advance to the semifinals and compete against the winner of top-seeded Auburn and eighth-seeded Alabama, which will be live-streamed on ESPN+ on Saturday at 1 p.m.

2024 SEC Championship
Sea Island Golf Club
St Simons Island, Ga.
Par 70, 7,005 Yards

Third Round Results

Team Leaderboard

t-1.      No. 1 Auburn             274-276-276=826 (-14)
t-1.      No. 7 Tennessee          277-274-275=826 (-14)
3.        No. 3 Vanderbilt         269-276-282=827 (-13)
t-4.      No. 23 Georgia           270-279-280=829 (-11)
t-4.      No. 11 Arkansas          279-278-272=829 (-11)
6.        No. 15 Florida           279-270-281=830 (-10)
7.        No. 22 Texas A&M         276-278-278=832 (-8)
8.        No. 9 Alabama            283-272-283=838 (-2)
9.        No. 5 Ole Miss           281-280-288=849 (+9)
10.       No. 36 Mississippi State 288-281-284=853 (+13)
11.       Kentucky                 283-287-289=859 (+19)
12.       South Carolina           287-278-296=861 (+21)
13.       No. 35 LSU               293-286-295=874 (+34)
14.       No. 38 Missouri          290-292-297=879 (+39)

Individual Leaderboard
1.        Jackson Koivun, Auburn        66-66-66=198 (-12)
t-2.      Matthew Riedel, Vanderbilt    67-69-68=204 (-6)
t-2.      Hunter Logan, Mississippi St. 68-67-69=204 (-6)
t-2.      Daniel Rodrigues, Texas A&M   67-68-69=204 (-6)
t-2.      Jack Turner, Florida          68-65-71=204 (-6)
6.        Bryce Lewis, Tennessee        69-66-70=205 (-5)
t-8.      Caleb Manuel, Georgia         67-69-70=206 (-4)
t-8.      Camden Smith, Georgia         67-69-70=206 (-4)
t-7.      Jake Hall, Tennessee          69-70-67=206 (-4)
t-7.      Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt     66-69-71=206 (-4)

Georgia Scores
t-8.      Caleb Manuel             67-69-70=206 (-4)
t-8.      Camden Smith             65-71-70=206 (-4)
t-28.     Ben van Wyk              68-72-69=209 (-1)
t-20.     Connor Creasy            72-67-72=211 (+1)
t-40.     Buck Brumlow             70-72-71=213 (+3)

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