Aug. 31, 2007
ATLANTA – Georgia Tech’s golf team, which returns three of its five starters from last year’s Atlantic Coast Conference champions, has been ranked No. 8 in the preseason poll published by Golf World magazine.
Junior Cameron Tringale, a two-time All-American from Laguna Niguel, Calif., and sophomore Chesson Hadley, an honorable mention All-American as a freshman from Raleigh, N.C., are both listed among the magazine’s top 50 players to watch in 2007-08. Tringale is rated ninth.
Tringale led Tech in stroke average last year, had five top-10 finishes, and has a 70.38 norm in NCAA championship events. Hadley, who didn’t play a fall event as a freshman, came on strong in the spring with top-10 finishes in the ACC Championship, NCAA East Regional and NCAA Championship.
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Stanford, the defending NCAA champion, is the top selection in the Golf World/Nike Golf Division I Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The Cardinal received 19 first-place votes and will return three of the five starters from last year’s team that won seven titles overall. Alabama is second in the poll, and Georgia, Florida and UCLA round out the top-five.
Jamie Lovemark, a sophomore from Southern California, is number one on Golf World’s list of the “Top 50 Male Players to Watch.” The rest of the top ten includes: No. 2 Billy Horschel (Florida); No. 3 Webb Simpson (Wake Forest); No. 4 Kyle Stanley (Clemson); No. 5 Rickie Fowler (Oklahoma St.); No. 6 Michael Thompson (Alabama); No. 7 Brian Harman (Georgia); No. 8 Rob Grube (Stanford); No. 9 Cameron Tringale (Georgia Tech); No. 10 Derek Fathauer (Louisville).
Tech begins its 2007 fall schedule Sept. 14-16 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga. The Yellow Jackets will play three of their four fall events in the state of Georgia, including the Brickyard Invitational Oct. 7-9 in Macon, Ga., and the Callaway Golf Match Play Championship Oct. 28-30 at Lake Oconee.
Head coach Bruce Heppler welcomes back four other players who played in at least two events last year, juniors Taylor Hall (LaGrange, Ga.), Adam Cohan (Wayne, Pa.) and David Dragoo (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and sophomore Daniel Bowden (Easley, S.C.), two red-shirt freshmen in John Tyler Griffin (Wilson, N.C.) and Paul Haley (Dallas, Texas), and has one incoming freshman in William Miller of Venetia, Pa.
