Watson, Kirk To Play In The Presidents Cup

• Two Bulldogs — Bubba Watson and Chris Kirk — will be playing for the United States in the Presidents Cup in South Korea Oct. 8-11. Watson played in the match in 2011, going 3-2, and Kirk will be making his debut.

The team is made up of the U.S. players who earned the most official FedExCup points, beginning with the 2013 BMW Championship through the 2015 Deutsche Bank Championship, with points earned in 2015 doubled. 

The rest of the U.S. team will be Jordan Spieth, Jimmy Walker, Zach Johnson, Jim Furyk, Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar. The International Team also includes Jason Day, Louis Oosthuizen, Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama, Branden Grace, Marc Leishman, Anirban Lahiri, Charl Schwartzel, Thongchai Jaidee and Danny Lee.

• The FedExCup Playoffs will continue next week at the BMW Championship in Illinois. The top 70 players are alive in the Playoffs, including No. 5 Bubba Watson, No. 15 Kevin Kisner, No. 32 Harris English, No. 37 Chris Kirk, No. 48 Brendon Todd, No. 50 Brian Harman and No. 58 Russell Henley. After the BMW Championship, the top 30 will advance to the season-ending Tour Championship.

Bulldogs To Open Season At The Carmel Cup

Front row, L to R, Greyson Sigg, Zach Healy and Jack Larkin Jr. Back row, L to R, Lee McCoy, Matthew Beringer, Sepp Straka, David Mackey and Jaime Lopez Rivarola.

The 12th-ranked Georgia men's golf team will kick off the fall portion of the 2015-16 schedule this weekend as it tries to defend its title in The Carmel Cup in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Coach Chris Haack will open his 20th season in Athens with a lineup of senior Sepp Straka, juniors Jaime Lopez Rivarola and Greyson Sigg, sophomore Zach Healy, redshirt freshman Jack Larkin Jr. and true freshman David Mackey. The tournament format consists of six players with five counting (as opposed to the typical five players with four counting).

Notably absent from the lineup is senior All-American Lee McCoy, who is en route to England to compete for the United States Walker Cup Team. Team USA will meet its amateur counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland Sept. 12-13 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club.

The Bulldogs, who reached the “Final Fore” at the 2015 NCAA Championships just three months ago, will begin the season with 54 holes on the Pebble Beach Links Friday through Sunday. Joining the Bulldogs will be Arkansas, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech and Vanderbilt. Tee times and live scoring can be found at GolfStat.com.

Straka, Sigg, Healy and McCoy are fourth-fifths of the lineup that made a memorable run at last year’s NCAAs, reaching the semifinals despite being seeded 28th out of 30 entering the tournament. The Bulldogs won three events in 2014-15, including The Carmel Cup, and finished in the top 5 in 10 of their 14 tournaments.

McCoy paced Georgia a year ago with the single-season scoring record of 70.08 and earned First-Team All-America and All-SEC honors. Sigg and Healy (an Honorable Mention All-American) followed at 72.81 and 72.82, respectively.

“We’re always excited to get the season under way and getting to do so at Pebble Beach pushes that even higher,” Haack said. “This is one of the most famous facilities in golf and our guys are honored to get to play there. I’m looking forward to seeing how we perform this week. Every team has to create its identity and chemistry and that starts here. We have a mixture of experience and inexperience, so we need our veterans to show the ropes to the new guys.”

The Bulldogs will tee off at 11:10 a.m. on Friday with their counterparts from Vanderbilt, Texas Tech and Oklahoma.

Eight Bulldogs Still Alive In Playoffs

• Eight Bulldogs remained in the FedExCup Playoffs following The Barclays. Bubba Watson came in third, followed by Kevin Kisner in 20th, Brendon Todd in 24th, Brian Harman in 30th, Hudson Swafford in 50th and Russell Henley in 72nd.

The top 100 in the FedExCup Standings now advance to the Deutsche Bank Championship. Watson is No. 3, Kisner is No. 13, Chris Kirk (who did not make the cut at The Barclays) is No. 39,  English is No. 41, Todd is No. 47, Henley is No. 49, Harman is No. 62 and Swafford is No. 93.

Erik Compton had to withdraw from The Barclays due to illness and was not high enough in the standings to advance in the Playoffs.

• In case you missed it, Harman had two aces -- two -- in the final round of The Barclays.

• The Bulldogs will open the 2015-16 season on Friday in The Carmel Cup. Check back later this week for more details. Georgia is No. 11 in the Bushnell Golfweek Preseason Coaches Poll released last week.

• Bryden Macpherson came in 65th and Scott Parel missed the cut in the WinCo Foods Portland Open. Neither will advance in the Web.com Tour Finals.

Nine Bulldogs Make It To FedExCup Playoffs

The Bulldogs have nine players in The Barclays, the first of the four tournaments to determine the 2014-15 FedExCup champion.

No. 3 Bubba Watson, No. 17 Kevin Kisner, No. 29 Chris Kirk, No. 38 Russell Henley, No. 42 Harris English, No. 53 Brendon Todd, No. 69 Brian Harman, No. 100 Hudson Swafford and No. 122 Erik Compton made the 125-man field for the Playoffs.

The Barclays will be held Thursday through Sunday at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J. The Playoffs field will be pared down for the Deutsche Bank Championship (100) and the BMW Championship (70), leading to the 30-man Tour Championship.

• Bryden Macpherson and Scott Parel will be in action in the Web.com Tour's WinCo Foods Portland Open in Oregon.

This is the 21st and final regular-season event on the Web.com Tour schedule. On Sunday (Aug. 30th), the first 25 of 50 available PGA Tour cards for the 2015-16 season will be handed out. The top 75 on Sunday night will be exempt into the Finals and guaranteed fully exempt status on the Web.com Tour in 2016 if they do not secure a Tour card. A second set of 25 cards will be on the line at the four-event Web.com Tour Finals, which get under way Sept. 10-13 in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Parel is No. 74, Macpherson is No. 126 in the standings.

McCoy Named To U.S. Walker Cup Team

FAR HILLS, N.J. --- Georgia's Lee McCoy has been named to the United States Walker Cup Team, according to an announcement on Monday by the United States Golf Association.

The 45th match between the Americans and their amateur counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland will be held Sept. 12-13 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. The U.S. leads the overall series 35-8-1.

Joining McCoy on the U.S. roster are Bryson DeChambeau, Beau Hossler, Maverick McNealy and Hunter Stewart. Team USA will be captained by John “Spider” Miller. The remaining five players will be named following the U.S. Amateur in Illinois next week.

"I don't hesitate to consider this my greatest accomplishment in the game of golf," McCoy said. "I had the opportunity to play in some incredible events this summer, but this is the one I've had on my mind for a long time. This is the big one. I could not be more excited."

“The USGA is proud to select these five young men, all with brimming golf résumés, to represent the USA at the Walker Cup Match,” said Diana M. Murphy, USGA vice president and chairman of the USGA’s Championship Committee. “They represent all of the fine qualities that make the Walker Cup such a traditional and renowned international amateur golf competition.”

McCoy, a senior from Clarkesville, Ga., had one of the most celebrated campaigns in school history a year ago. He earned First-Team All-America and All-SEC honors in leading the Bulldogs to the semifinals of the NCAA Championship. McCoy set the single-season scoring average (70.08), matched the single-season record with four victories, and became the first Bulldog in school history to win three straight tournaments. He appeared in three professional events this summer – the U.S. Open, the Travelers Championship and the John Deere Classic, making the cut in the latter. McCoy also helped the U.S. win the Palmer Cup and finish second in the inaugural golf portion of the Pan Am Games.

McCoy joins George Hamer, Arnold Blum, Vinny Giles, Allen Miller, Jimmy Gabrielsen, Griff Moody, Danny Yates, Franklin Langham, Nick Cassini, Erik Compton, Brian Harman, Chris Kirk, Adam Mitchell, Harris English and Russell Henley as Bulldogs chosen for the Walker Cup. Giles, Gabrielsen and Yates also have served as U.S. captains.

6 Bulldogs Set To Play In PGA Championship

Six Bulldogs will be in action this week in the PGA Championship: Harris English, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Kevin Kisner, Brendon Todd and Bubba Watson.

The tournament will run Thursday through Sunday at Whistling Straits in Sheboygan, Wisc.

• Watson was the runner-up in the WGC Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday. He finished at 9-under, two shots shy of Shane Lowry. Henley placed 17th at 1-under, Kisner was 37th at 3-over and Todd was 61st at 10-over.

• Hudson Swafford missed the cut in the Barracuda Championship in Nevada.

• Scott Parel will play and Bryden Macpherson is an alternate for the Web.com Tour's Price Cutter Charity Championship this week in Missouri.

• The 17th annual Bulldog Open will be held Friday, Sept. 18, and The Golf Lettermen's Four Ball will take place Friday, Oct. 2. More information, contact Denise at dsaliba@sports.uga.edu or 706-369-6066.

• On Twitter, Chris Kirk wrote this last week: "My hand is healing nicely but still a few weeks away from hitting balls. I'm hoping to be ready for @TheBarclaysGolf." Kirk has been sidelined with a broken hand since mid-July.

• Seniors Lee McCoy and Sepp Straka and sophomore Zach Healy will be playing next week in the U.S. Amateur in Illinois.

Four Bulldogs Playing In WGC Bridgestone

Four Bulldogs will be in action this week in the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio: Bubba Watson, Kevin Kisner, Brendon Todd and Russell Henley.

Hudson Swafford will tee it up in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour's other event this week in Nevada.

• Swafford was 21st at 7-under to lead the Bulldogs in the Quicken Loans National. Harris English took 46th at 4-under and Erik Compton was 71st at 4-over.

• Bryden Macpherson and Scott Parel each finished 18th at 10-under in the Web.com Tour's Utah Championship.

• Macpherson and Parel will be back in action this week in the Digital Ally Open in Kansas.

• The 17th annual Bulldog Open will be held Friday, Sept. 18, and The Golf Lettermen's Four Ball will take place Friday, Oct. 2. More information, contact Denise at dsaliba@sports.uga.edu or 706-369-6066.