2020-21 Men's Golf Roster
Spencer Ralston
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Gainesville, Ga.
- High School:
- Gainesville
2020-2021
• Has appeared in 50 of a possible 51 tournaments as a collegian, including 43 straight to open his career.
• Placed second as the Bulldogs claimed the stroke play portion of the SEC Championships.
• Came in sixth in the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship to help the Bulldogs claim the team title.
• Recorded top-20 efforts in the Vanderbilt Legends Collegiate and the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate during the fall.
• Stands No. 14 in the PGA Tour University rankings.
• Serving as one of the team captains this season.
• Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.
• Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
2019-2020
• Placed eighth in The Carmel Cup and the Crooked Stick Invitational, 15th in the Jim Rivers Invitational, and 18th in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic.
• Helped the Bulldogs win the team titles in the Jim Rivers Invitational and the Crooked Stick Invitational.
• Served as the Bulldogs’ team captain.
• Named to the Preseason Haskins Award Watch List.
• Won the 2019 Players Amateur, erasing an 11-shot deficit on the final day and earning a spot in the PGA Tour’s 2020 RBC Heritage.
• Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.
2018-2019
• Chosen as an Honorable Mention All-American by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America.
• Chosen by the GCAA for the Division I PING All-Southeast Region Team.
• Named First-Team All-SEC by the league’s coaches.
• Claimed medalist honors for the first time in his career in the Linger Longer Invitational.
• Named the SEC Golfer of the Week after winning the Linger Longer Invitational.
• Finished second in extra holes in the Sun Bowl Marathon All-America Golf Classic, setting his tournament-best figure of 13-under 200 and matching his low loop of 7-under.
• Finished third in the NCAA Athens Regional to help the Bulldogs claim the team title.
• Placed fourth in the rain-shortened Jim Rivers Intercollegiate.
• Came in ninth in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic.
• Finished with a scoring average of 70.59, which is the fifth best for a single season in program history. (He now holds Nos. 5 and 7 on Georgia’s all-time list.)
• Finished the season with six top 10s and 10 top 20s.
• Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
• Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.
2017-2018
• Chosen as an Honorable Mention All-American by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America.
• Named Second-Team All-SEC.
• Named to the PING All-Southeast Region Team by the GCAA.
• Came in a career-best second in the Crooked Stick Invitational and the Linger Longer Invitational.
• His 12-under 204 at the Linger Longer Invitational was a career best.
• His first-round 7-under 65 at the Linger Longer matched his career best.
• Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.
• Won the Dick Copas Award as the Bulldog with the lowest scoring average.
2016-2017
• Named to the SEC’s All-Freshman Team.
• Finished with a scoring average of 71.56.
• Had five top-12 efforts, highlighted by a seventh-place finish in the FAMC Intercollegiate at The Grove.
• Fired a 7-under 64 in the second round and 9-under 204 overall at the Ka’anapali Collegiate to set his career lows.
• His 7-under is the third-lowest loop in school history (one 9-under, seven 8-unders).
• Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.
High School
• Graduated from Gainesville (Ga.) High.
• Claimed 16 individual high school tournament victories.
• Compiled a career scoring average of 69.7 and set the school and state single-season record of 69.0 in 2015.
• Posted 63s three different times.
• Shot par or better 36 times in 48 tournaments, including 21 times in the 60s.
• Won the Tommy Aaron Award as Gainesville’s Player of the Year four times.
• Won the Tommy Valentine Award for leadership and the Vince Dooley Award for exemplary academics, athletics, character and citizenship.
• Chosen as a team captain as a junior and a senior.
• Named All-State four times.
• Named the 5A Player of the Year three times.
• Won the Hall County title three times.
• Led Gainesville to 27 tournament titles, including 2013 when it notched the only undefeated season in state history.
• Led Gainesville to four region and four county team titles.
Amateur/Junior Highlights
• Reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 U.S. Amateur and qualified for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 events.
• Qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur three times.
• Participated in the 2016 Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.
• Won the 2015 Joe Cheves Invitational.
• Named Golfweek’s National Junior Player of The Week (June 1, 2015).
Personal
• Born Aug. 6, 1997.
• Son of Mitch and Lisa Ralston. (His father played collegiate golf at Clemson.)
• Majoring in Sport Management.
