Senior George Bryan IV had a superb SEC Championship over the weekend, tying for first place individually in the first postseason tournament of the year.
The Chapin native shot a 2-under-par 68 to close out his Sunday round at Sea Island Golf Club at St. Simons Island, Ga. He preceded the final round with an even-par 70 on Friday and an excellent 4-under-par 66 in Saturday's round, posting his second-best score of the season.
The team as a whole did not fare as well as Bryan. No. 12 USC finished in ninth place at 24-over-par. No. 18 Georgia took advantage of its home state advantage and win with a score of 4-over-par. No. 16 Florida and No. 40 Ole Miss tied for second place with 9-over-pars.
Senior Paul Woodbury finished tied for 18th individually with a 5-over-par 215. Rounding out the individuals for Carolina was sophomore Wesley Bryan, who tied for 38th with 10-over-par, and senior Patrick Rada, who fired 19-over-par to place 55th.
The USC women's golf team played in its own SEC Championship a few hundred miles West of where the men were teeing it up.
No. 30 Carolina finished in seventh place at 15-over-par overall at the North River Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa, Ala. No. 6 Alabama continued the trend of the home team winning by emerging victorious with a 4-under-par 848.
Sophomore Katie Burnett finished in 15th place for the week with a 214, while senior Benedicte Toumpsin came in 20th, firing a 217. Senior Corrine Carr had the best round of her career on Sunday, shooting a 4-under-par 67 in the final round. Carr channelled her inner Phil Mickelson by going bogey-free on the day.
