Bulldogs Head To Mexico For Next Event

The Georgia men’s golf team will return to action Sunday through Tuesday in the Querencia Cabo Intercollegiate in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Live results can be found at Golfstat.com. Action will begin each day at Querencia Golf Club (par 72, 6,928 yards) with an 11 a.m. shotgun start.

The Bulldogs – who are ranked No. 5 by Golfstat, No. 10 by the GCAA and No. 12 by Golfweek this week – enter the tournament as the defending champions after posting a 10-shot victory a year ago.

Georgia and co-hosts Arkansas and Houston will be joined by Baylor, California, Duke, Florida State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, Rice, South Florida, Texas, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Washington.

Georgia will use a lineup of seniors Jaime Lopez Rivarola and Greyson Sigg, sophomores Jack Larkin Jr. and Tye Waller, and freshman Spencer Ralston. Ralston leads the Bulldogs with a scoring average of 70.47, followed by Sigg at 70.53.

The Bulldogs will be looking for their first win of the year as they have placed second in three of their five stroke-play events.

“We’ve been close, so we’re encouraged by that,” Georgia head coach Chris Haack said. “We had some success in Mexico last year and we hope to build off of that. The main thing is, we’re hitting the ball well and putting ourselves in contention.”

Bulldogs Finish Second In Puerto Rico

RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico --- The ninth-ranked Georgia men’s golf team came in second in the Puerto Rico Classic on Tuesday.

The Bulldogs fired a final-round 1-over 289 to wind up at 8-under 856. Team honors went to Clemson at 19-under 845, while Georgia Tech and North Carolina State tied for third at 5-under 859.

On Tuesday, the Bulldogs were led by freshman Spencer Ralston, who signed for a 2-under 70. Senior Greyson Sigg and sophomores Jack Larkin Jr. and Tye Waller all added 1-over 73s.  Senior Jaime Lopez Rivarola had Georgia’s non-counting score of 4-over 76.

Waller finished seventh at 3-under 213, seven shots shy of Georgia Tech’s Luke Schniederjans (10-under 206). Ralston claimed 10th at 2-under 214, followed by Lopez Rivarola at 1-under 215. Larkin and Sigg wound up at 1-over 217 and 7-over 223, respectively.

“I thought we had a pretty solid tournament overall,” Georgia head coach Chris Haack said. “We went through a few ups and downs, but we can learn from those as we move forward. The key in the spring is to play steady, consistent golf. We can build on the positives we had down here.”

Playing in the Puerto Rico Classic Individual, freshman Will Chandler had a final-round 1-over 73 and finished 10th at 20-over 233.

The Bulldogs will return to action Sunday through Tuesday in the Querencia Cabo Intercollegiate in Mexico.

• Harris English, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Kevin Kisner, Hudson Swafford and Joey Garber will play this week in the Honda Classic in Florida.

• Slots are still available for the Coach Chris Haack Golf Camp, which will be held June 4-7 and June 8-11 for both boys and girls ages 10-18.

Bulldogs To Tee It Up In Puerto Rico

• The Bulldogs will be back in action Sunday through Tuesday in the Puerto Rico Classic. Georgia will use a lineup of seniors Jaime Lopez Rivarola and Greyson Sigg, sophomores Jack Larkin Jr. and Tye Waller, and freshman Spencer Ralston. Freshman Will Chandler will compete in the Puerto Rico Individual Classic.

• Brian Harman, Hudson Swafford, Harris English and Bubba Watson will be playing this week in the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club.

• Speaking of English, he wed the former Helen Marie Bowers on St. Simons last week and several Bulldogs were in attendance (see the photo at right).

• Sepp Straka, Erik Compton and Keith Mitchell are playing this week in the Web.com Tour's Panama Claro Championship.

• Slots are still available for the Coach Chris Haack Golf Camp, which will be held June 4-7 and June 8-11 for both boys and girls ages 10-18.

Sigg Named To Hogan Award Watch List

Georgia golfer Greyson Sigg has been named to the watch list for the 2017 Ben Hogan Award, according to an announcement Wednesday by Colonial Country Club, the Friends of Golf, and the Golf Coaches Association of America.

The Ben Hogan Award is presented annually to the top college golfer taking into account all collegiate and amateur competitions during the past 12-month period.

The list of 10 semifinalists will be unveiled April 12. On May 3, that group will be pared down to three finalists. The finalists will attend a black-tie banquet at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, May 22, before the PGA Tour’s Dean & DeLuca Invitational, where the winner will be crowned.

Sigg was an All-America and All-SEC selection following the 2015-16 season. Serving as team captain, he paced the Bulldogs during the fall portion of the 2016-17 campaign with a scoring average of 69.58 and top-10 finishes in three of the four tournaments. Sigg finished a career-best 12-under in two events and fired a personal-best 7-under in the Ka’anapali Collegiate.

The 2017 Ben Hogan Award watch list, as determined by the award’s subcommittee, includes Sigg, Sam Burns of LSU, Cameron Champ from Texas A&M, Wyndham Clark of Oregon, Sean Crocker from Southern California, Jared du Toit of Arizona State, Jorge Garcia from Florida, Doug Ghim of Texas, Gavin Hall from Texas, Nick Hardy of Illinois, Rico Hoey from Southern California, Sam Horsfield of Florida, Viktor Hovland from Oklahoma State, Will Long of Auburn, Patrick Martin from Vanderbilt, Maverick McNealy of Stanford, Dylan Meyer from Illinois, Collin Morikawa of California, John Oda from UNLV, Chandler Phillips of Texas A&M, Doc Redman from Clemson, Scottie Scheffler of Texas, Matthias Schwab from Vanderbilt, Jimmy Stanger of Virginia, Sam Stevens from Oklahoma State, Braden Thornberry of Ole Miss, Alejandro Tosti from Florida and Will Zalatoris of Wake Forest.

Past Hogan Award winners include Georgia’s Chris Kirk in 2007.

Sigg and his Georgia teammates will resume the 2016-17 schedule Feb. 19-21 in the Puerto Rico Classic.

• Kirk, Brendon Todd and Kevin Kisner will be in action this week in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

• Sepp Straka and Erik Compton are playing this week in the Web.com Tour's Club Colombia Championship in Bogota.

• Slots are still available for the Coach Chris Haack Golf Camp, which will be held June 4-7 and June 8-11 for both boys and girls ages 10-18.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

• Chris Kirk, Bubba Watson, Brian Harman, Russell Henley and Harris English will be in action this week in the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale.

• Slots are still available for the Coach Chris Haack Golf Camp, which will be held June 4-7 and June 8-11 for both boys and girls ages 10-18.

• The Bulldogs will return to action Feb. 19-21 in the Puerto Rico Classic. Georgia will be hosting the Southern Intercollegiate at Athens Country Club on March 13.