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Friday, July 8, 2016

9 Bulldogs To Play In Georgia Amateur

David Denham
Nine current, former and future Bulldogs will be in action in the 2016 Georgia Amateur Championship at Capital City Club in Atlanta.

The centennial version of the tournament will take place Tuesday through Sunday with 36 holes of stroke play on Crabapple Course, followed by the low 32 advancing to match play on Brookhaven Course (where 14-year-old Bobby Jones won the first event in 1916).

Schedule to participate are rising sophomore Jack Larkin Jr., incoming freshmen Will Chandler and Spencer Ralston, and former standouts Zan Banks, David Denham, Jack Hall, Greg Kennedy, Jeff Knox and Jack Larkin Sr.

Denham won the Georgia Amateur in 2004.

• Five Bulldogs will be playing in the Open Championship at Royal Troon: Kevin Kisner, Bubba Watson, Harris English, Chris Kirk and Russell Henley.

• Brendon Todd, Hudson Swafford, Erik Compton and Lee McCoy will be in action in the Barbasol Championship in Alabama.

• The Web.com Tour event is the Lincoln Land Charity Championship in Illinois featuring Bryden Macpherson, Keith Mitchell and Adam Mitchell.

• Nicholas Reach will tee it up in the Staal Foundation Open in Ontario on the MacKenzie Tour.