Spencer Ralston

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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 tournament-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: 18 (3/7/6/2/0) toP-20 finishes: 29 (5/8/10/4/2) Par or Better: 87 (18/24/27/13/5)

Best finish: 1st

2019 linger longer low round: 64 (-7) 2016 Ka ’ anaPali 65 (-7) 2018 linger longer 64 (-7) 2018 all-ameriCa low tournament: 200 (-13) 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

ed by a seventh-place finish in the FAMC Intercollegiate at The Grove. • Fired a 7-under 64 in the second round and 9-under 204 overall at the Ka’anapali Collegiate to set his career lows. • His 7-under is the third-lowest loop in school history (one 9-under, seven 8-unders). • Named the recipient of the Doug and Diane Magnus Family Athletic Scholarship.

High School

• Graduated from Gainesville (Ga.) High. • Claimed 16 individual high school tournament victories. • Compiled a career scoring average of 69.7 and set the school and state single-season record of 69.0 in 2015. • Posted 63s three different times. • Shot par or better 36 times in 48 tournaments, including 21 times in the 60s. • Won the Tommy Aaron Award as Gainesville’s Player of the Year four times. • Won the Tommy Valentine Award for leadership and the Vince Dooley Award for exemplary academics, athletics, character and citizenship. • Chosen as a team captain as a junior and a senior. • Named All-State four times. • Named the 5A Player of the Year three times. • Won the Hall County title three times. • Led Gainesville to 27 tournament titles, including 2013 when it notched the only undefeated season in state history. • Led Gainesville to four region and four county team titles.

Amateur/Junior Highlights

• Reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 U.S. Amateur and qualified for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 events. • Qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur three times. • Participated in the 2016 Junior Invitational at Sage Valley. • Won the 2015 Joe Cheves Invitational. • Named Golfweek’s National Junior Player of The Week (June 1, 2015).

Personal

• Born Aug. 6, 1997. • Son of Mitch and Lisa Ralston. (His father played collegiate golf at Clemson.) • Majoring in Sport Management.