- Coach Jay Hardwick
Enters Spring 2009 second all-time in career scoring at Virginia Tech … Competed in the 2008 Masters Tournament … Also played in the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament, the AT&T Championship and the Wyndham Championship … Played in the 2008 U.S. Amateur Championship … Competed in all four team events in Fall 2009 … Led the Hokies in scoring in three of the four events and was second in the other … Best finish of the fall was a second at the Brickyard Collegiate … Had one top five, two top 10 and one 12th-place finish in the fall … Shot a five-under 66 in the second round at the Wolverine Intercollegiate … Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar in 2008 … 2008 Virginia Collegiate First-Team All-State selection … 2008 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team selection … 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III At-Large Team honoree … Team’s Most Improved Player and Coach’s Award recipient for the 2007-08 season … Played in all seven events in Spring 2008 … Led Hokies in scoring in two events … Best finish was 10th place at the Administaff/Augusta State Invitational … Had five rounds of par or better … 2007 British Amateur champion … Played in the 2007 British Open at Carnoustie, missing the cut by two strokes … Advanced to match play at the 2007 U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club … Low amateur in the 2007 Scottish Open … 2007 Virginia Collegiate First Team All-State selection … Co-Player of the Year for the 2006-07 season … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in 2007 … Led the team in scoring in Fall 2007 with a 71.50 average… Finished ninth in the season-opener at the VCU Shootout … Also finished ninth at the Duke Golf Classic … Led Tech to the championship at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at The Ridges, finishing seventh overall … Finished 17th at the Landfall Tradition, helping the team to their second consecutive victory … Finished 12th at the ACC Championship and was the team’s top finisher at the 2007 NCAA East Regional in 23rd place … Qualified for the 2006 U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine and advanced to match play… Named to the Virginia Collegiate All-State Second Team … Named to the 2006 ACC Academic Honor Roll and the All-ACC Academic Men’s Golf team … Appeared in all five events in Fall 2006 … Second on the team in scoring average … Led the team in scoring in three of the five events … Had best finish of the fall when he tied for medalist honors and lost in a playoff at the season-ending Aloha Purdue Collegiate Invitational in Hawaii … Finished fourth at the Coca-Cola Duke Golf Classic … Team’s Rookie of the Year for the 2005-06 season … Set a course record (68) from the Black Tees at the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech in 2006 fall qualifying … Played in all six events in Spring 2006 … Led the team in scoring in three of the six events and was tops on the team in scoring average in the spring, at 73.83 … Had his best finish of the spring at the General Jim Hackler Invitational, where he finished eighth at TPC-Myrtle Beach … Appeared in all five events in Fall 2005 … Best showing was a 17th-place finish at the Duke Golf Classic … Won the inaugural Carolinas Young Amateur Championship at Pinewild C.C. in Pinehurst in Jan. 2009 … Runner-up at the 2006 Southern Amateur with rounds of 71-72-65-68 … 14th at the Palmetto Amateur … 16th at the Eastern Amateur … 20th at the North Carolina Amateur … Ninth at the 2005 Carolinas Amateur … 19th at the Cardinal Amateur … Finished second at the 2005 AJGA Junior at Chateau Elan … 2004 AJGA Rolex Junior All-American … 2004 North & South Junior Champion … Qualified for the 2004 U.S. Junior Amateur at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, advanced to match play and finished 17th … Sixth at the 2004 Bobby Chapman … 2003 Donald Ross Junior Champion … Qualified for 2003 U.S. Amateur at Oakmont at age 16 … 2003 HP Scholastic Junior All-American… Four-year letterman at High Point Central High School … Four-time all-conference, two-time conference Player of the Year … Finished in the top 10 in the NCHSAA 3A Championship all four years … Attending Tech on the Ray Edwards Golf Scholarship … Majoring in marketing.