(Story taken from the Oglethorpe University
website)
ATLANTA, Ga. - The No. 4 ranked Oglethorpe University men's
golf team won the Georgia Cup for the ninth consecutive year at a
wind blown and rain soaked Stone Mountain Golf Club earlier this
week. The Petrels secured the Cup with their third place finish in
the Emory/Stone Mountain Spring Invitational. The nation's top two
ranked teams (Huntingdon and Methodist) in the Nike / Golf
World Magazine Coaches Poll finished first and second place in
the event.
The Georgia Cup was founded in 1998 by the Division III teams in
the state of Georgia and is a season long tournament amongst the
participating teams LaGrange, Piedmont, Emory and Oglethorpe. A
season's worth of team and individual scores are weighted
amongst the four competing squads and are calculated and updated
weekly throughout the year.
Oglethorpe posted a season long scoring average of 295.52, the
second lowest team average in the Georgia Cup's twelve year history
to easily outdistance Emory at 306 and LaGrange at 308. The Stormy
Petrels have now captured ten of the twelve Georgia Cups that have
been awarded.
Oglethorpe junior and 2008 All-American Scott Pugh (73.31) edged
out teammates Colin Chapman (2nd place - 74.33) and Olafur Loftsson
(3rd place - 74.44) to be named the Georgia Cup Player-of-the-Year.
On the seven member All-State squad, Oglethorpe also placed Matt
Bernstein, Matt Rebitch and Craig Stevenson to fill out six of
the seven slots for the second year in a row. Clifton Barton of
Piedmont College rounded out the Georgia Cup team for 2009.