June 6, 2007
Previous Sun Devil Men's Golf All-Americans
The second, third and honorable mention PING Division I All-America Teams have been announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America and Arizona State's Benjamin Alvarado Holley has earned second-team honors. After earning honorable mention All-American honors last year with a 20th-place finish at the NCAA Championships and notching a 72.50 stroke average (fifth-best by a freshmen in ASU history), he finished this season with a 70.62 stroke average, sixth-best in ASU history (ASU top-10 list below), and was 42-under par in the final 16 rounds (five tournaments) of the year.
Lemke and Alvarado Holley's honors give head coach Randy Lein 34 All-American selections among 14 players in his 15-year career at ASU. All-Americans under Lein include Todd Demsey (3), Chris Hanell (3), Paul Casey (3), Cade Stone, Chris Stutts, Joey Snyder (2), Scott Johnson (2), Darren Angel (2), Jeff Quinney (3), Matt Jones (2), Chez Reavie (3), Alejandro Canizares (4), Lemke (3) and Alvarado Holley (2).
ASU senior Niklas Lemke earned first-team honors, announced on June 2, along with Rhys Davies of East Tennessee State, Florida's Billy Horschel, Dustin Johnson of Coastal Carolina, Georgia's Chris Kirk and Brendon Todd, Southern California's Jamie Lovemark, Kyle Stanley of Clemson, Brigham Young's Daniel Summerhays and Dawie van der Walt of Lamar .
Alvarado Holley, New Mexico's Charlie Beljan, Jonas Blixt of Florida State, Stanford's Josepth Bramlett and Rob Grube, Roberto Castro and Cameron Tringale of Georgia Tech, UCLA's Kevin Chappell, Brian Harman of Georgia and Alabama's Michael Thompson were named to the second team.
Third-team honorees include Texas A&M's Bronson Burgoon, Derek Fathauer of Louisville, Michigan State's Matt Harmon, Colt Knost of SMU, UCLA's Lucas Lee, Brian Locke of Loyola Marymount, Stanford's Zack Miller and Matthew Savage, Joel Sjoholm of Georgia State and North Carolina's Martin Ureta..
A total of 29 golfers were named honorable mention All-America (see list below)
ASU MEN'S GOLF SCORING AVERAGES (1987-2007)
Sun Devil, Events | Year | Scoring Average |
1. Paul Casey, 10 | 1999-2000 | 69.87 |
2. Phil Mickelson, 12 | 1991-1992 | 69.95 |
3. Niklas Lemke, 12 | 2006-2007 | 70.03 |
4. Phil Mickelson, 11 | 1990-1991 | 70.08 |
5. Billy Mayfair, 13 | 1986-1987 | 70.59 |
6. Benjamin Alvarado Holley, 12 | 2006-2007 | 70.62 |
7. Phil Mickelson, 14 | 1989-1990 | 70.82 |
8. Chez Reavie, 14 | 2003-2004 | 71.05 |
9. Alejandro Canizares, 13 | 2005-2006 | 71.22 |
10. Alejandro Canizares, 14 | 2003-2004 | 71.38 |
Division I PING All-America TeamsFirst Team Rhys Davies, East Tennessee State Billy Horschel, Florida Dustin Johnson, Coastal Carolina Chris Kirk, Georgia Niklas Lemke, Arizona state Jamie Lovemark, Southern California Kyle Stanley, Clemson Daniel Summerhays, Brigham Young Brendon Todd, Georgia Dawie van der Walt, Lamar
Second Team Benjamin Alvarado Holley, Arizona State Charlie Beljan, New Mexico Jonas Blixt, Florida State Joseph Bramlett, Stanford Roberto Castro, Georgia Tech Kevin Chappell, UCLA Rob Grube, Stanford Brian Harman, Georgia Michael Thompson, Alabama Cameron Tringale, Georgia Tech
Third Team Bronson Burgoon, Texas A&M Derek Fathauer, Louisville Matt Harmon, Michigan State Colt Knost, SMU Lucas Lee, UCLA Brian Locke, Loyola Marymount Zack Miller, Stanford Matthew Savage, Stanford Joel Sjoholm, Georgia State Martin Ureta, North Carolina
Honorable Mention Victor Almstrom, Minnesota Oliver Bekker, Lamar Louie Bishop, UC Davis Matt Bortis, Texas George Bryan IV, South Carolina Jon Curran, Vanderbilt Andrew DiBitetto, Charlotte Oscar Floren, Texas Tech Charles Ford, Tennessee Aaron Goldberg, San Diego State Chesson Hadley, Georgia Tech Jason Kokrak, Xavier Bronson LaCassie, Minnesota Andrew Landry, Arkansas Trent Leon, Oklahoma State Daniel Lim, Stanford Michael Manning, Augusta State Pablo Martin, Oklahoma State Adam Mitchell, Georgia Brett Myers, Tulsa Corey Nagy, Charlotte Lindsey Renolds, Coastal Carolina Matt Savage, Florida State Michael Schachner, Duke Gareth Shaw, East Tennessee State Webb Simpson, Wake Forest Tim Streng, Western Illinois Zach Sucher, UAB Jarred Texter, UNLV Niall Turner, Minnesota Mike Van Sickle, Marquette Dan Woltman, Wisconsin