Tide Golfers Have Good Week on the Course
6/27/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
TUSCALOOSA ?? Two University of Alabama golfers who are spending their off-season on the course found major success on the greens this past week.
Mark Harrell, who will be a junior on the Crimson Tide’s golf team in 2006-07, took the lone qualifying spot in the state qualifier for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. Harrell, who is from Hazelhurst, Ga., shot 66-70/136 at Ol’ Colony Golf Course in Tuscaloosa to earn the spot in what was his first attempt at qualifying. The 2005 U.S. Amateur participant will go on to play at the U.S. Amateur Public Links July 10-15 at Gold Mountain Golf Course in Bremerton, Wash.
His Tide teammate and fellow Georgian, Thomas Hagler, also had a big week. Hagler, who will be a senior on the Alabama team this fall, qualified as an amateur for the Nationwide Tour’s Chattanooga Classic. Playing among a field of 156 that included former Tide golfers turned PGA Tour players Dicky Pride and Spike McRoy, Hagler finished tied for 24th. He shot 67-67-69-68/271. As an amateur the Ringgold, Ga., native was not eligible for a share in the purse, but the professional players who he tied with at 24th each received $4,028. Hagler was one of only two amateurs who made the cut. Vanderbilt’s Luke List, a U.S. Amateur finalist, was the other. List finished T-35th.
Pride, a Tuscaloosa native who played at Alabama from 1989-92, finished one stroke back and in a tie at 30th (64-67-70-71/272) and took home $3,154. McRoy, who played at Alabama from 1987-90, missed the cut. He shot 64-75/139.
