News and Notes About The Bulldogs

• Harris English and Kevin Kisner are playing in the Wyndham Championship this week in North Carolina.

• Scott Parel will be in action in the Champions Tour's DICK'S Sporting Goods Open in New York.

• Keith Mitchell, Sepp Straka, Erik Compton and Joey Garber are in the field for the Web.com Tour's News Sentinel Open in Tennessee.

• The Mackenzie Tour stop is the National Capital Open To Support Our Troops and features Lee McCoy and Greyson Sigg.

• Important upcoming dates: The Lettermen Tournament will be held Sept. 22, followed by the
Bulldog Open on Oct. 13. Mail-outs are on the way, but for more information, contact Denise at dsaliba@sports.uga.edu.

• The Bulldogs will open the 2017-18 season Sept. 1-3 in The Carmel Cup in California.

• At age 49, Paul Claxton won the Georgia Open title earlier this month. Claxton, who will compete later this year at Champions Tour Q-School, posted a 4-shot win at Savannah’s Ford Plantation, finishing at 13-under 275.

• Matthew Beringer has been pretty popular around Athens recently. Read all about it in the Athens and Atlanta newspapers.

Seven Bulldogs To Play For PGA Championship

Seven Georgia Bulldogs will compete in the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C., this week.

Paul Claxton (1988-91), Brian Harman (2006-09), Russell Henley (2008-11), Chris Kirk (2004-07), Kevin Kisner (2003-06), Hudson Swafford (2007-09, 2011) and Bubba Watson (2000-01) will be representing Georgia in the field. Georgia and Texas each have seven alums in the field.

The 49-year-old Claxton will be making first appearance in the PGA Championship after qualifying via a top-5 finish in the PGA Professional Championship. Since capping his career on the PGA and Web.com Tours, Claxton has been working as the club professional at Hawk's Point Golf Club in his hometown of Vidalia. Said Claxton, "I'm looking forward to the PGA Championship. That was my goal coming out (to the PPC), so I'm very pleased that I was able to do that. I've never played in one, so I'm looking forward to it."

The PGA Championship can be viewed from 1-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday on TNT,  11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on TNT, and 2-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on CBS.

Tee Times for Thursday and Friday
8:15 a.m./1:25 p.m.: Bubba Watson
8:50 a.m./2:00 p.m.: Hudson Swafford
12:50 p.m./7:40 a.m.: Paul Claxton, Russell Henley
1:40 p.m./8:30 a.m.: Brian Harman
1:45 p.m./8:35 a.m.: Chris Kirk
1:55 p.m./8:45 a.m.: Kevin Kisner

• Here's a nice piece on Harman produced by our friends at PGATour.com.

• Sepp Straka and Erik Compton will be in action in the Web.com Tour's Price Cutter Championship.

• Lee McCoy and Greyson Sigg are playing in the Mackenzie Tour's ATB Financial Classic.

• Important upcoming dates: The Lettermen Tournament will be held Sept. 22, followed by the
Bulldog Open on Oct. 13. Mail-outs are on the way, but for more information, contact Denise at dsaliba@sports.uga.edu.

• The Bulldogs will open the 2017-18 season Sept. 1-3 in The Carmel Cup in California. A complete schedule will be announced soon.

• One last reminder that Coach Chris Haack will be speaking at the The Georgia Bulldog Club's Dawg Days event in Columbus on Thursday. The event will be held at the Convention and Trade Center with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Scott Howard, the radio voice of the Bulldogs, will emcee the program and panelists will include Haack, men’s basketball coach Mark Fox, Mike Cavan, special assistant to the head football coach, and women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor. The event will be open to the public and will focus on allowing current Bulldog Club members the chance to interact with UGA staff members and educate UGA fans who are not involved on how to support UGA Athletics.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

• Congratulations to Jaime Lopez Rivarola (pictured at right) on being chosen as a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar for the second straight season. Lopez Rivarola graduated in May.

• Congrats to Spencer Ralston and John Hilliard Catanzaro on qualifying for the United States Amateur, which will be held Aug. 14-20 at Riviera Country Club in California. Ralston is a rising sophomore, while Catanzaro is an incoming freshman.

• Kevin Kisner, Brian Harman, Bubba Watson, Hudson Swafford and Russell Henley will be playing in the WGC Bridgestone Invitational, while Brendon Todd, Chris Kirk and Harris English will be in action in the Barracuda Championship.

• Erik Compton, Keith Mitchell and Sepp Straka are playing in the Web.com Tour's Ellie Mace Classic at TPC Stonebrae.

• The Mackenzie Tour stop this week is the Syncrude Oil Country Championship, which will feature Greyson Sigg and Lee McCoy.

• Important upcoming dates: The Lettermen Tournament will be held Sept. 22, followed by the
Bulldog Open on Oct. 13. Mail-outs are on the way, but for more information, contact Denise at dsaliba@sports.uga.edu.

• The Bulldogs will open the 2017-18 season Sept. 1-3 in The Carmel Cup in California. A complete schedule will be announced soon.

• Coach Chris Haack will be speaking at the The Georgia Bulldog Club's Dawg Days event in Columbus on Thursday, Aug. 10. The event will be held at the Convention and Trade Center with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Scott Howard, the radio voice of the Bulldogs, will emcee the program and panelists will include Haack, men’s basketball coach Mark Fox, Mike Cavan, special assistant to the head football coach, and women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor. The events will be open to the public and focus on allowing current Bulldog Club members the chance to interact with UGA staff members and educate UGA fans who are not involved on how to support UGA Athletics.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

• Hudson Swafford, Bubba Watson, Lee McCoy, Chris Kirk and Harris English will be in action this week in the RBC Canadian Open.

• Sepp Straka, Erik Compton and Keith Mitchell are playing in the Web.com Tour's Digital Ally Open.

• Coach Chris Haack will be speaking at the The Georgia Bulldog Club's Dawg Days event in Columbus on Thursday, Aug. 10. The event will be held at the Convention and Trade Center with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Scott Howard, the radio voice of the Bulldogs, will emcee the program and panelists will include Haack, men’s basketball coach Mark Fox, Mike Cavan, special assistant to the head football coach, and women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor. The events will be open to the public and focus on allowing current Bulldog Club members the chance to interact with UGA staff members and educate UGA fans who are not involved on how to support UGA Athletics.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

• Congratulations to Coach Chris Haack and the former Ronda Livesay on their recent marriage!

• Haack will be speaking at the The Georgia Bulldog Club's Dawg Days event in Columbus on Thursday, Aug. 10. The event will be held at the Convention and Trade Center with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Scott Howard, the radio voice of the Bulldogs, will emcee the program and panelists will include Haack, men’s basketball coach Mark Fox, Mike Cavan, special assistant to the head football coach, and women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor. The events will be open to the public and focus on allowing current Bulldog Club members the chance to interact with UGA staff members and educate UGA fans who are not involved on how to support UGA Athletics.

• Russell Henley, Brian Harman, Kevin Kisner and Bubba Watson will be playing in The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale this week.

• Brendon Todd will be playing in the Barbasol Championship in Alabama.

The field for the Web.com Tour's Pinnacle Bank Championship will include Erik Compton, Sepp Straka, Keith Mitchel and Joey Garber.

• Former Georgia assistant coach Jason Payne has been named the head coach at Charleston Southern University.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

The Georgia Bulldog Club will be taking selected Georgia coaches, including men's golf coach Chris Haack, on the road next month for an outreach program named “Dawg Days.”

These events will be open to the public and focus on allowing current Bulldog Club members the chance to interact with UGA staff members and educate UGA fans who are not involved on how to support UGA Athletics. The two events this year will be held in Valdosta on Wednesday, Aug. 9, followed by Columbus on Thursday, Aug. 10.

The Valdosta event will be held at the James H. Rainwater Conference Center beginning with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Featured will be a panel discussion with emcee Scott Howard, the radio voice of the Bulldogs.  Panelists include men’s basketball coach Mark Fox, gymnastics coach Courtney Kupets Carter, baseball coach Scott Stricklin, and Mike Cavan, special assistant to the head football coach.

The Columbus event will be held at the Convention and Trade Center with a reception at 5 p.m. followed by a program at 6 p.m. Howard will also emcee the program and panelists will include Haack, Fox, Cavan and women’s basketball coach Joni Taylor.

Additional information may be obtained from The Georgia Bulldog Club at  877-423-2947.

• Brian Harman, Chris Kirk, Kevin Kisner, Bubba Watson and Brendon Todd will be in action this week in the John Deere Classic in Illinois.

• The Web.com Tour event is the Utah Championship and will feature Erik Compton, Keith Mitchell and Sepp Straka.

• Lee McCoy and Greyson Sigg are in the field for the Mackenzie Tour's Staal Foundation Open in Ontario.

• Scott Parel will be vying for the title in the Constellation Senior Players Championship in Maryland.

News & Notes About The Bulldogs

• Russel Henley, Hudson Swafford, Chris Kirk, Kevin Kisner, Bubba Watson and Harris English will be in action this week in the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia.

• Sepp Straka is in the field for the Web.com Tour's LECOM Health Challenge in New York.

• Lee McCoy and Greyson Sigg will be playing in the Mackenzie Tour's Players Cup in Winnipeg, Manitoba.