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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16 , 2009 |
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Petrels Claim Ninth Consecutive Georgia Cup
The Oglethorpe University men's golf team won the Georgia Cup for the 9th consecutive year last Tuesday at a wind blown and rain soaked Stone Mountain Golf Club. 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(AL) and Methodist(NC)) finished first and second place in the event while No. 4 Oglethorpe finished in third place.
The Georgia Cup was founded in 1998 by the Division III teams in the state of Georgia and is a season long tournament within a tournament amongst the participating teams LaGrange, Piedmont, Emory and Oglethorpe. The team and individual scores are weighted by the number of teams from the state of Georgia participating and are calculated and updated weekly throughout the fall and spring seasons.
Oglethorpe posted a season long scoring average of 295.52, the second lowest team average in the Georgia Cup's 12 year history to easily outdistance Emory at 306 and LaGrange at 308. It was the ninth consecutive Georgia Cup team championship claimed by Oglethorpe and the 10th in the 12 year history of the Cup.
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) for the Stormy Petrels. 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.
Pugh was named the Georgia Cup Player of the Year and his name will appear on the Cup trophy which is kept on the campus of the team champion, alongside former Stormy Petrel Player of the Year recipients Tolliver Williams (1998), Trent Erb in (2003 & 2004), Joe Green (2006) and Taylor Urbanski (2007).
The 2009 final results can now be found here.
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