Bulldogs Come In 19th At NCAA Championships

Junior Joey Garber paced Georgia at the NCAAs last week. Georgia finished 19th in the NCAA Championships last week at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course. The Bulldogs fired a final-round 1-over 281 on the par-70, 7,319-yard layout to wind up at to 10-over 850 for the tournament. Georgia was seeking a top-8 finish on Thursday to advance to the match play portion of the tournament. Junior Joey Garber came in at 1-over 211 in just his second tournament since shoulder surgery in December. Freshman Lee McCoy finished at 3-over 213, followed by junior Keith Mitchell and sophomore Nicholas Reach at 3-over 213, and senior T.J. Mitchell at 12-over 222. "We gave ourselves chances all week, but we never capitalized on them," Keith Mitchell said. "We played okay, but out here you've got to have one or two real good rounds to keep up with the competition. We put ourselves in good positions, but we never could cash in." "It's always tough trying to play from behind," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "You put pressure on yourself trying to make something happen. ... Every time we tee it up, we should learn something. Hopefully we learned something that will make them tougher and better for the next time around." “It’s hard to get behind in a tournament like this,” Garber said. “If you’ve got to make up a lot of strokes, these teams are all so good that they’re not going to give them all back to you. Maybe one or two but not all. You can’t count on any more than that. We played hard. We didn’t give up. So there’s some things to look forward to.” • The PGA TOUR stop this week is the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. Brendon Todd, Justin Bolli, Ryuji Imada, Russell Henley, Brian Harman and Harris English are in the field. At last week's Memorial at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, Henley came in sixth at 5-under and Bubba Watson was 29th at even par. And in the Web.com Tour's Mid-Atlantic Championship, Todd was 15th at 2-over, Kevin Kisner and Hudson Swafford were 27th at 4-over, Scott Parel was 34th at 5-over and Imada was 58th at 13-over. • The Chris Haack Golf Camp has two sessions: June 5-8 and June 9-12. Perhaps the Bulldogs of the future will be teeing it up during the next few days in Athens!