SAN FRANCISCO — The No. 22 Georgia men’s golf team has captured its second tournament championship of the year, taking The Goodwin tournament title after a one-under-par, 839 total on Saturday evening at TPC Harding Park.
Georgia’s third-round score of five-under, 275 was the second-lowest round of the event. The Bulldogs beat out nine teams ranked in the top 50 to win the event in its first year competing in the event. After winning the Puerto Rico Classic in February, the program has now collected multiple tournament wins in a season for the fifth time in the last six years.
Georgia finished one stroke ahead of second-place Utah. Host No. 44 Stanford finished in third with a four-over, 844 finish, followed by No. 8 Tennessee and No. 15 Georgia Tech in fourth and fifth respectively.
The team was paced by Ben van Wyk, who capped off the weekend t-3rd. After carding a three-under, 207, the graduate earned his best finish of the year and his fourth top-five result. Van Wyk finished the event with the second-best average on par fives at 4.17, earning three birdies and an eagle on the course’s two par five holes.
Buck Brumlow had the team’s lowest score on Saturday, shooting two-under to finish t-11. The junior tied for the second-most pars in the field with 41. Brumlow was also one of eight players to card an eagle during the tournament, earning his on number 16 during the third round. Georgia was the only school to have multiple players shoot eagles with Brumlow and van Wyk doing so.
Connor Creasy joined Brumlow for a t-11 result at two-under, 210. Creasy, a graduate student, totaled 11 birdies across 54 holes this weekend, tied for the sixth-most of the 168-person field. Senior Caleb Manuel competed individually and finished t-33 at three-over. Beck Burnette closed out the tournament with a one-under, 69 result, putting him at t-55 individually.
Georgia will close out the regular season in Naples, Fla. at the Calusa Cup, hosted by Iowa, at the Calusa Pines Golf Club on April 7-9.
The Goodwin presented by Palo Alto Networks
TPC Harding Park, San Francisco
Par 70, 7,193 Yards
Final Results
Team Leaderboard – Top 10
1. No. 22 Georgia 279-285-275=839 (-1)
2. Utah 284-279-277=840 (E)
3. No. 44 Stanford 279-287-278-844 (+4)
4. No. 8 Tennessee 279-286-280=845 (+5)
5. No. 15 Georgia Tech 283-284-279=846 (+6)
6 No. 45 BYU 280-288-280=848 (+8)
7. San Francisco 289-276-284=849 (+9)
8. Pepperdine 281-288-282=851 (+11)
9. No. 27 UCLA 287-286-279=852 (+12)
10. No. 24 Oregon 290-287-277=854 (+14)
Individual Leaderboard
1. Braxton Watts, Utah 71-66-68=205 (-5)
2. Michael Thorbjornsen Stanford 70-69-67=206 (-3)
t-3. Ban van Wyk, Georgia 69-67-71=207 (-3)
t-3. Jonathan Nielsen, Clemson 66-74-67=207 (-3)
t-3. Jakob Melin, San Francisco 69-70-68=207 (-3)
t-6. Sampson Zheng, California 68-72-68=208 (-2)
t-6. Kristoffer Kuvaas, Pepperdine 71-67-70=208 (-2)
t-6. Pablo Ereno, UCLA 70-68-70=208 (-2)
t-6. William Walsh, Pepperdine 70-68-70=208 (-2)
10. Omar Morales, UCLA 69-71-69=209 (-1)
Georgia Scores
t-3. Ban van Wyk 69-67-71=207 (-3)
t-11. Buck Brumlow 69-73-68=210 (E)
t-11. Connor Creasy 71-71-68=210 (E)
t-33. Caleb Manuel* 71-68-74=213 (+3)
t-55. Beck Burnette 70-77-69=216 (+6)
t-92. Camden Smith 76-74-70=220 (+10)
