June 5, 2015

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina men’s golf team is ranked No. 7 in the final Golfstat Relative Ranking of the season, Golfstat announced Friday.

The Gamecocks only fell one spot after finishing 13th at the NCAA Championship earlier this week. Carolina turned in one of the greatest seasons in school history in 2014-15. The Gamecocks won a school-record five tournament titles, recorded a school-record 10 top-five finishes and shattered the school record for team scoring average in a season by more than four strokes (282.85).

Individually, the Gamecocks combined for 33 top-20 finishes in team events, including 11 top-fives and three tournament wins. Juniors Matt NeSmith and Will Starke both earned first-team All-SEC honors and PING All-Southeast Region honors. Starke finished the year with the lowest single-season scoring average in program history (70.27), while NeSmith finished with the second lowest (70.51).

Carolina will return seven golfers from this year’s roster for the 2015-16 season.

Golfstat Relative Rankings
1. Illinois
2. Texas
3. Florida State
4. Vanderbilt
5. LSU
6. Southern California
7. South Carolina
8. South Florida
9. Georgia Tech
10. UCLA
11. Arizona State
12. Stanford
13. Auburn
14. Texas Tech
15. Oklahoma
16. Oregon
17. Baylor
18. Washington
19. Georgia
20. North Carolina
21. SMU
22. California
23. New Mexico
24. Oklahoma State
25. Alabama