Clemson Trails Only Georgia

March 28, 2001

Princeton, NJ – Clemson is ranked second in this week’s MasterCard College Golf Rankings. The Tigers have been ranked in the top three three in the nation in every poll this year. The Tigers trail only Georgia, who won the Schenkel E-Z-GO Invitational this past weekend in a head to head meeting with the Tigers. Georgia Tech is ranked third, while TCU is fourth and Florida is fifth.

Clemson has three of the top 16 players in the nation according to the individual rankings. Lucas Glover is ranked second in the nation behind Bryce Molder of Georgia Tech. John Engler, also a senior at Clemson, is ranked fifth, while D.J. Trahan has improved to 16th. Trahan finished third in the Schenkel and jumped from 35th to 16th in the rankings.

Trahan will not play in Clemson’s next event, the United States Collegiate in Mexico. He will be playing in the Masters in Augusta, GA as the result of his United States Public Links championship last July.

Team Rankings 1 Georgia2 Clemson 3 Georgia Tech 4 TCU 5 Florida 6 South Carolina 7 Southern California 8 Texas 9 North Carolina State 10 Augusta State 11 Brigham Young 12 Arizona State 13 New Mexico 14 East Tennessee State 15 Oklahoma 16 Virginia Tech 17 Louisiana State 18 Minnesota 19 Duke 20 Northwestern

Rank	Player	Year	School	Points
1	Bryce Molder	SR	Georgia Tech	385.950
2	Lucas Glover	SR	Clemson University	275.728
3	Erik Compton	SO	Georgia, U. of	256.000
4	David Sanchez	SR	North Carolina State	235.000
5	John Engler	SR	Clemson University	234.550
6	Chris Wisler	SR	East Tennessee St.	230.258
7	Nick Cassini	SR	Georgia, U. of	209.250
8	Luke Donald	SR	Northwestern	196.485
9	Jamie Elson	JR	Augusta State U.	190.348
10	Kyle Thompson	SR	South Carolina	180.518
11	Jeff Quinney	SR	Arizona State U.	174.377
12	Ryan Hybl	FR	Georgia, U. of	173.650
13	David Miller	JR	Georgia, U. of	152.400
14	Craig Lile	SR	Arkansas, U. of	152.260
15	Camilo Villegas	FR	Florida, U. of	152.000
16	D.J. Trahan	SO	Clemson University	140.527