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CHRIS HAACK

SEC Championships a learning experience for men’s golf team

By on April 30, 2012

Being young is never easy. The Georgia men’s golf team displayed five new faces from last year’s squad at the Southeastern Conference Championship in St. Simon’s Island from April 20-22. The inexperience showed during the last day of the tournament, as the Bulldogs finished in fourth place behind a 10-over par 850. Despite coming in [...]

Georgia senior Milena Savich (pictured) and her younger sister are trying to help get women's golf off the ground in their father’s native country of Serbia. evan stichler/Staff

Linking up with part of her past

By on April 29, 2012

Serbia will have a lot to look forward to in the coming months. The country will have a national women’s golf team for the first time, which brings with it a brand new type of excitement. And Milena Savich as a lot to do with it. A senior on Georgia’s women’s golf team and a native of [...]

Freshman Nicholas Reach along with Brian Carter of the Georgia men's golf team were part of the Stadion Classic, but didn't make the cut on the second day of action. EVAN STICHLER/Staff

Georgia pair receives exemptions into Stadion Classic

By on April 26, 2012

Freshman Nicholas Reach and sophomore Brian Carter of the Georgia men’s golf team are about to hit the links with the pros. Reach and Carter earned sponsor’s exemptions to participate in the Stadion Classic at UGA Nationwide Tour event from April 30 to May 6 at the UGA Golf Course. After playing a full regular season and [...]

MARTA SILVA ZAMORA

Marta Silva Zamora rebounds to finish in top 10, Bulldogs take fifth place at SEC Championships

By on April 22, 2012

The No. 9 Georgia women’s golfers had to deal with some rough weather on the final day of SEC Championship play in Fayetteville, Ark. There were high scores across the board, but Bulldogs Marta Silva Zamora and Rocio Sanchez Lobato made the best of the weather on Sunday, shooting a 3-over 75 and a 76, [...]

CHRIS HAACK

Men’s golf brings home fourth place finish in SEC Championships

By on April 22, 2012

The Georgia men’s golf team ended up in the same place it did last year in the Southeastern Conference Championships. The Bulldogs finished in fourth place for the second year in a row at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course behind a 10-over par 850 for the tournament. Georgia went into the final round of [...]

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Bulldogs remain in second after second round of SEC Championships

By on April 21, 2012

The Georgia men’s golf team does not feel that it is out of striking distance going into the final round of the Southeastern Conference Championships. The Bulldogs posted a 4-over par 284 on Saturday during the second round at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside course to be tied for second place with Arkansas. After being [...]

ROCIO SANCHEZ LOBATO

Rocio Sanchez Lobato jumps 16 spots on individual leaderboard, Bulldogs fall to fifth at SEC Championships

By on April 21, 2012

On a day in which Marta Silva Zamora, who was tied for first after day one, posted the highest score among the Georgia women’s golf team’s lineup, freshman Rocio Sanchez Lobato took the reins and finished with a team best 1-over 73 on Saturday at the SEC Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Her round bumped her [...]

MARTA SILVA ZAMORA

Silva Zamora tied for first, Georgia in fourth after first day at SEC Championships

By on April 21, 2012

Senior Marta Silva Zamora shot a 3-under 69 — which included the first hole in one of her career — to pace the Georgia women’s golf team on the first day of the Southeastern Conference Championship in Fayetteville, Ark., which put her in a tie for first place individually. As a team, No. 9 Georgia [...]

T.J. MITCHELL

Bulldogs in second after first round of the SEC Championship, trail Crimson Tide by one stroke

By on April 20, 2012

The Georgia men’s golf team is right where it wants to be after one round of the Southeastern Conference championships. After the first round at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course in St. Simons, the Bulldogs fired a 7-under par 273 — one stroke behind the first place Alabama Crimson Tide. “With the heightened expectations of the [...]

T.J. MITCHELL

Inexperienced Bulldogs plan to emulate Watson’s Masters victory, bring SEC title back to Athens

By on April 19, 2012

When the Georgia men’s golf team went into the Southeastern Conference Championships, it was loaded. The Bulldogs were sporting All-Americans Russell Henley, Harris English, Hudson Swafford and Bryden Macpherson — all of whom now play professionally. This year, Georgia will compete with only one player who has any experience in the SEC Championship. “I know [...]