The Flats – Continue to strive for another berth to the NCAA Championships, which will be held in the San Diego area this year.thNo. 1 ranked Georgia Tech heads to nearby Chula Vista, Calif., on Monday and Tuesday to participate in the RE Lamkin Invitational.
The Yellow Jackets, ranked No. 13 in the Scoreboard College Rankings and No. 11 in the Bushnell/GCAA Coaches Poll, finished sixth in their spring opener against a stacked field at Hawaii's Amer Ali Intercollegiate and finished second. It became Thailand. Two weeks ago, he faced off against another powerhouse at the Water Sound Invitational held in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Sixteen teams will compete over two days (Monday and Tuesday) at San Diego Country Club. Both teams will play 36 holes with a shotgun start on Monday at 10:30 a.m. ET, followed by a first 18-hole round on Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET and a final 18-hole round at 10 a.m. ET.th tea. Three of the participating teams are ranked in the current Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings: Washington (No. 4), Georgia Tech (No. 13), and New Mexico (No. 19), along with five other teams. is in the top 50.
After leading the Yellow Jackets to 19 in the program.th Head coach who won the Atlantic Coast Conference and finished runner-up at last spring's NCAA Championships. bruce hepler He returned three starting pitchers and appeared in 29 games.th Season at The Flats, including seniors. Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia) and Christ Lamprecht (George, South Africa) and second year student Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), each ranked among the top 100 amateur players in the world. They formed the foundation of the Tech lineup from 2023 to 2024.
Christo Lamprecht moved to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and PGA Tour University this week. (Photo credit: Ross Obry)
Tech lineup – All three of Tech’s returning starters (Lamprecht, Forester, Ty) are in the Lamkin Invitational lineup along with freshmen. Cale Fontenot (Lafayette, Louisiana) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, California)the same lineup that competed in the Yellow Jackets' first two events this spring.
Lamprecht is currently ranked No. 1 in the amateur world, No. 1 in the PGA Tour University Rankings and No. 2 in the Scoreboard University Rankings. The 6-8 senior had two wins in the fall, winning the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational and the Ben Hogan College Invitational, but won his third by one stroke at the Water Sound Invitational two weeks ago. I missed out on winning. He boasts a team-best stroke average of 68.47 and is on track to set a Tech record for his program.
Forrester, ranked 136th on the scoreboard, led the Yellow Jackets Amer Ali Intercollegiate with a total of 15 under and a tie for eighth at 201, the second-lowest 54-hole score of his career. He finished in the top 10 at Olympia Fields and had two top 20 finishes in the fall.Thailand, ranking 89th, tied for 18thth He placed first at Ameer Ali and then tied for eighth at the Watersound Invitational.
Fontenot is tied for 14th place on the scoreboard rankings for 60th place.th He won at Water Sound and in the fall won the Eastlake Cup in stroke play.Kim tied for 56th placeth Water Sound and 30th The event was held at the University of Georgia Golf Club in the fall, aiming for the best finish of the year.
2nd grade Aidan Tran (Fresno, California)competed in two fall events and tied for 49th place.th At Georgia Golf Club, he participated in two consecutive individual tournaments and tied for 37th place.th With water sound.
Tournament information – Georgia Tech will compete in the RE Lamkin Invitational for the first time in the event’s 17-year history. The tournament follows the traditional college 54-hole, 5-count-4, stroke-play format, with 36 holes played on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday. The event will be held at the 7,033-yard (par 72) San Diego Country Club.
The 16 teams include BYU (43), Cal Poly (70), Colorado State University (57), Fresno State (48), Georgia Tech (13), University of Hawaii, LSU (29) and Loyola. Includes Marymount (41). ), New Mexico (19), St. Mary's, San Diego, San Diego State (31), Santa Clara, Washington (4), Wyoming.
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Georgia Tech's golf team now has 29 members.th During his one year under head coach Bruce Hepler, he won 72 tournaments.Hepler is 10thth-Longest serving head coach in Division I men's golf. Yellow Jacket's Atlantic Coast Conference Championship he has won 19 times, NCAA Championships he has appeared in 33 times and he has been a national runner-up five times. Connect with Georgia Tech Golf on social media by liking his Facebook page or following him below. Twitter (@GTGolf) And Instagram. For more information about Tech Golf, visit Ramblinwreck.com.
