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Monday, June 23, 2014

Garber, McCoy, Cromie Pick Up All-America Honors

Joey Garber was chosen as a First-Team All-American by Golfweek, which also picked Lee McCoy as a Second-Team All-American and Michael Cromie as an Honorable Mention selection.

On the PING All-America lists as released by the Golf Coaches Association of America, Garber was a Second-Team choice and Cromie and McCoy made the Honorable Mention list. 

Earlier, the GCAA named Garber, Cromie, McCoy and Nicholas Reach to its All-Southeast Region Team.

• The PGA Tour stop this week is the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club in Maryland. Erik Compton, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Kevin Kisner and Brendon Todd are slated to play, and Hudson Swafford is listed as an alternate.

• At the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Harris English came in seventh at 11-under. Swafford took 24th at 8-under, followed by Bubba Watson in 31st at 6-under and Harman in 42nd at 5-under. Compton, Justin Bolli, Garber and Ryuji Imada missed the cut.

• Garber played in his first PGA Tour event and then discussed it with OnlineAthens.com.

• Watson is second, Kirk is seventh, English is eighth and Todd is 10th in this week's FedExCup Standings.

• At the Air Capital Classic in Kansas on the Web.com Tour, Paul Claxton came in fifth at 13-under and 2013 champion Scott Parel took 28th at 6-under.

• Bolli, Claxton, Imada and Parel will participate in the United Leasing Championship in Indiana this week.

• Chip Beck came in 59th at even par in the Champions Tour's Encompass Championship in Illinois.

• Wills Smith appeared in the Syncrude Boreal Open on the PGA Tour Canada circuit. However, he missed the cut.