Meet The Student-Athletes
Spencer Ralston
Fifth Year • 6-2 • 185 Gainesville, Ga. Gainesville 2020-2021 • Recorded top-20 efforts in the Vanderbilt Legends Collegiate and the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate during the fall. • Serving as one of the team captains this season. • Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship. • Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll. 2019-2020 • Placed eighth in The Carmel Cup and the Crooked Stick Invitational, 15th in the Jim Rivers Invitational, and 18th in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic. • Helped the Bulldogs win the team titles in the Jim Rivers Invitational and the Crooked Stick Invitational. • Served as the Bulldogs’ team captain. • Named to the Preseason Haskins Award Watch List. • Won the 2019 Players Amateur, erasing an 11-shot deficit on the final day and earning a spot in the PGA Tour’s 2020 RBC Heritage. • Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship. 2018-2019 • Chosen as an Honorable Mention All-American by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America. • Chosen by the GCAA for the Division I PING All-Southeast Region Team. • Named First-Team All-SEC by the league’s coaches. • Claimed medalist honors for the first time in his career in the Linger Longer Invitational. • Named the SEC Golfer of the Week after winning the Linger Longer Invitational. • Finished second in extra holes in the Sun Bowl Marathon All-America Golf Classic, setting his tourna-
ment-best figure of 13-under 200 and matching his low loop of 7-under. • Finished third in the NCAA Athens Regional to help the Bulldogs claim the team title. • Placed fourth in the rain-shortened Jim Rivers Intercollegiate. • Came in ninth in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic. • Finished with a scoring average of 70.59, which is the fifth best for a single season in program history. (He now holds Nos. 5 and 7 on Georgia’s all-time list.) • Finished the season with six top 10s and 10 top 20s. • Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll. • Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship. 2017-2018 • Chosen as an Honorable Mention All-American by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America. • Named Second-Team All-SEC. • Named to the PING All-Southeast Region Team by the GCAA. • Came in a career-best second in the Crooked Stick Invitational and the Linger Longer Invitational. • His 12-under 204 at the Linger Longer Invitational was a career best. • His first-round 7-under 65 at the Linger Longer matched his career best. • Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship. • Won the Dick Copas Award as the Bulldog with the lowest scoring average. 2016-2017 • Named to the SEC’s All-Freshman Team. • Finished with a scoring average of 71.56. • Had five top-12 efforts, highlight-
Ralston’s Georgia Scorecard Year Rounds Strokes Average Low 2016-2017 32 2290 71.56 64 2017-2018 35 2480 70.86 65 2018-2019 37 2612 70.59 64 2019-2020 21 1505 71.67 65 2020-2021 6 416 69.33 67 Totals 131 9303 71.02 64 Top-10 Finishes: Top-20 Finishes: Par Or Better: Best Finish: Low Round: Low Tournament:
18 29 87 1st 64 (-7) 65 (-7) 64 (-7) 200 (-13)
(3/7/6/2/0) (5/8/10/4/2) (18/24/27/13/5) 2019 Linger Longer 2016 Ka’anapali 2018 Linger Longer 2018 All-America 2018 All-America
2016-2017 Rounds Total Place The Carmel Cup 72-68-70 210 (-6) 11th / 48 FAMC Intercollegiate 73-71-73 217 (+1) 7th / 78 Nike Golf Invitational 69-67-76 212 (+2) 12th / 75 Ka’anapali Collegiate 72-64-68 204 (-9) 8th / 132 Puerto Rico Classic 72-72-70 214 (-2) 10th / 75 Querencia Intercollegiate 68-73-72 213 (E) 25th / 80 Southern Intercollegiates 76-75 151 (+7) 47th / 90 Linger Longer Invitational 74-70-71 215 (-1) 23rd / 84 Augusta Invitational 74-72-70 216 (E) 35th / 78 SEC Championship 73-75-68 216 (+6) 36th / 70 NCAA Regional 72-75-75 222 (+6) 30th / 75 2017-2018 Rounds Total Place The Carmel Cup 72-69-72 213 (-3) 23rd / 48 Golfweek Championship 67-71-75 213 (-3) 10th / 75 Nike Golf Invitational 76-67-70 213 (E) 30th / 75 Crooked Stick Invitational 70-71-74 215 (-1) 2nd / 66 Ka’anapali Collegiate 68-69-69 206 (-7) 9th / 115 Puerto Rico Classic 77-74-69 220 (+7) 31st / 75 Wexford Intercollegiate 73-66-71 210 (-6) 3rd / 90 Southern Intercollegiates 74-70 144 (E) 6th / 90 Linger Longer Invitational 65-72-67 204 (-12) 2nd / 90 Mason Rudolph Champ 68-72-73 213 (E) 4th / 82 SEC Championship 74-69-70 213 (+3) 24th / 70 NCAA Regional 73-72-71 216 (E) 17th / 65 2018-2019 Rounds Total Place The Carmel Cup 71-70-69 210 (-6) 13th / 48 Nike Golf Invitational 77-69-75 221 (+11) 45th / 75 Jim Rivers Intercollegiate 68-71 139 (-5) 4th / 85 Ka‘anapali Collegiate 66-67-71 204 (-9) 9th / 116 All-America Classic 68-64-68 200 (-13) 2nd / 29 Puerto Rico Classic 71-74-69 214 (-2) 15th / 75 Hackler Championship 72-70-72 214 (-2) 17th / 78 Linger Longer Invitational 70-69-66 205 (-11) 1st / 87 Clemson Invitational 67-66-73 206 (-10) 7th / 81 Southern Intercollegiates 73-74 147 (+3) 15th / 85 SEC Championship 67-70-78 215 (+5) 26th / 70 NCAA Regional 69-69-71 209 (-4) 3rd / 75 NCAA Championships 74-75-79 228 (+12) MC / 156 2019-2020 Rounds Total Place The Carmel Cup 70-69-70 209 (-7) 8th / 48 Jim Rivers Invitational 75-70-71 216 (E) 15th / 84 Nike Golf Collegiate 72-75-71 218 (+5) 48th / 75 Crooked Stick Invitational 70-70-77 217 (+1) 8th / 78 Ka’anapali Collegiate 73-68-65 206 (-7) 18th / 119 Puerto Rico Classic 69-70-75 214 (-2) 24th / 75 Southern Highlands 77-70-78 225 (+9) 48th / 84 2020-2021 Rounds Total Place Vanderbilt Legends 71-67-69 207 (-6) 18th / 70 Jerry Pate Inter. 67-70-72 209 (-1) 19th / 70
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