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Thursday, August 10, 2006
KARNS SUCCESSFUL AT SCGA STATE
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
AIKEN,
S.C. –
Presbyterian College’s Ben Karns finished tied for seventh
at the 75th South Carolina Golf Association (SCGA)
State Amateur Championship on Aug. 6.
 The
Gaffney, S.C. native carded rounds of 73, 72, five under par
65, and 73 for a four-day total of 283. Karns, a rising
senior at PC, was six behind the champion, Jeff Goff
(Jackson, S.C.). Goff claimed the SCGA championship with
two under par rounds of 66 and 68 along with a four-day
total of 277. He came from three behind at the start of
competition on Wednesday to win by three over Jordan Byrd
(Pendleton, S.C.) and Phillip Mollica (Anderson, S.C.).
The 2006
SCGA Amateur Championship was played on the par 70,
6,713-yard Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken, S.C. and ran from
Aug. 3-6. The field consisted of 142 players and was cut to
the low 70 and ties after the first two days of play. The
Amateur Championship is one of 17 major championships run by
the SCGA, which is in its 75th year of
existence. The 2007 Amateur Championship will be conducted
Aug. 2-5 at the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence,
S.C.
Last
season for the Blue Hose men’s golf team, Karns finished
tied for 33rd at the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf
Southeast Regional after jumping 10 spots with a final round
of 74. He was PC’s sole representative at the regional.
The Blue
Hose golf team will kick off the 2006-2007 season on Sept.
10-12 at the Kiawah Island Invitational, which be held at
the par 72, 6,887-yard Cougar Point Golf Club in Kiawah
Island, S.C.Back
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