Oglethorpe Men’s Golf Captures Ninth Consecutive Georgia Cup

Oglethorpe Men’s Golf Captures Ninth Consecutive Georgia Cup

(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.

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