Wake Forest Athletics
Webb Simpson Scores SGA Hat Trick
5/2/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
May 2, 2007
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Wake Forest junior Webb Simpson has become the first three-time winner of the Southern Golf Association's National Amateur of the Month. Simpson won the award for his dual victories in April, opening the month by winning the prestigious Azalea Amateur in Charleston, S.C., and adding the individual title in the U. S. Collegiate at the Golf Club Georgia.
Simpson previously won the award for July, 2005, after winning the Southern Amateur, then repeated in June, 2006 by posting a Sunnehanna Amateur victory and two runnerup finishes during that month.
Simpson turned back several top-ranked amateurs to win in Charleston and faced an even deeper field at the U.S. Collegiate, where 15 of the top 30 college teams competed. In difficult, windy conditions, he was the only player to finish under par at 1-under 215, three strokes clear of the elite field.
The monthly SGA award is selected from among amateur performances throughout the U.S. in all age groups by a national blue-ribbon panel of 15 golf officials, coaches and journalists. The 104-year-old Southern Golf Association promotes amateur golf in a variety of ways, including the staging of the prestigious Southern Amateur Championship, which will be contested in July at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst. East Tennessee's Rhys Davies won the March-through-October award in March.
SGA Contacts: Buford McCarty, SGA, Birmingham, 800-783-4446 Larry Guest, SGA Media Liaison, sgalarryg@aol.com
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