Senior Michael Cromie was named SEC Golfer of the Week on March 26.
Cromie earned individual medalist honors with a sudden death playoff victory over Alabama’s Robby Shelton after the pair ended regulation tied at 207. The win marked the second time Cromie has medaled in his Georgia career.
The senior from Cary, N.C., received the honor three days after leading the Bulldogs to victory at the Linger Longer Invitational in Greensboro, Ga., with a 3-under score of 69 in the final round and an overall 9-under score of 207 for the 72-hole event. His scores helped the Bulldogs finish 10 strokes better than No. 1-ranked Alabama.
For the season he has a scoring average of 72.17 and has been in the top-10 five times in eight events.
• The Bulldogs have added two events to their pre-SEC Championships schedule.
Georgia will play on Saturday in the Met Intercollegiate at Century and Old Oaks in Purchase, New York. Joining the Bulldogs and host Yale will be Army, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Princeton. It will be a 1-day, 36-hole event with 18 holes at Century at 8 a.m. and 18 at Old Oaks at 1:30 p.m. Coach Chris Haack is taking six players for the tournament: seniors Cromie, Joey Garber and Keith Mitchell, junior Nicholas Reach, sophomore Lee McCoy and freshman Greyson Sigg. Reach and Sigg will be vying for the final spot in the lineup during a practice round at Winged Foot Golf Club.
Georgia then will play in the Capital City Club College Match Play Championship on Saturday, April 19, at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course. The 1-day event will have Georgia, Georgia Tech, Auburn and Florida State playing each other in match play. The semifinals will begin at 7:30 a.m., followed by the consolation and championship matches at 1:30 p.m. The matches are structured similar to those at the NCAA Championship, with each team’s No. 5 player facing each other, followed by their No. 4 players and so on. Scoring will also be the same, with each individual match counting one point toward the team score.
The semifinal matches will feature the team ranked highest among the four in that week’s Golfstat rankings against the team ranked lowest. The other semifinal would pit the team ranked second-highest against the team ranked third-highest. Current rankings would pit No. 4 Georgia Tech against No. 26 Auburn and No. 5 Georgia against No. 12 Florida State, but the semifinal match-ups are subject to change.
• The PGA TOUR stop this week is the Shell Houston Open. Scheduled to play are Erik Compton, Hudson Swafford, Brendon Todd, Chris Kirk, Russell Henley, Brian Harman and Kevin Kisner, while Justin Bolli and Ryuji Imada are listed as alternates.
• In the updated FedExCup Standings, Harris English is fourth, Bubba Watson is fifth, Kirk is sixth and Henley is 25th.
• At last week's Valero Texas Open, Todd came in sixth at 5-under and Harman placed 16th at 1-under. Kisner and Swafford missed the cut and Compton withdrew after feeling "a little weak."
• There is no Web.com Tour event this week. At last week's Chitimacha Louisiana Open, Imada placed 25th at 8-under. Bolli and Scott Parel missed the cut.
