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South Carolina Punches Ticket to Match Play at SEC Championship
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South Carolina Punches Ticket to Match Play at SEC Championship

Gamecocks finished seventh, led by Jamie Wilson (T5th) and Ryan Hall (T12th)

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — For the third time in four years of the new format, South Carolina advanced to match play at the 2021 SEC Men’s Golf Championship on Friday afternoon. The Gamecocks shot 284 (+4) in the final round of stroke play to earn the seventh seed with a 54-hole total of 855 (+15). The team was paced by 2-under 68s from super senior Jamie Wilson and junior Ryan Hall.
 
It was a slow start for the team, but Carolina rallied with the four counting scores making 14 birdies the final 12 holes. Wilson, who led the team with a T-5th finish at even par for the tournament, was bogey free on the back nine today with three-straight birdies on holes 13-15, a difficult stretch of the golf course with the wind blowing out of the southeast. He had the putter rolling well all day with tap in pars coming into the clubhouse on holes 16, 17 and 18 after three more good birdie looks. The Mount Pleasant, S.C., native came into this week’s conference tournament with two previous appearances.  
 
Hall also had a hot stretch on his scorecard where he poured in four-straight birdies on holes 7-10. The Knoxville, Tenn., native T-12th to keep his top-20 streak alive. Hall, the third ranked player in the nation, has finished in the top-20 in all nine of his starts in the 2020-21 seasons. He climbed 23 spots on the leaderboard today.
 
“Jamie played great – so proud of him,” said head coach Bill McDonald. “Ryan Hall, who hasn’t had his best game this week, somehow figured out a way to finish tied for 12th and make some clutch birdies coming down the stretch. All the guys fought hard. Now we’re onto match play, so it’s anybody’s game. We’re starting fresh tomorrow, so that’s something that we’re looking forward to. We’ll get some rest tonight and get ready to go for the morning.” 

Sophomore Jack Wall shot 73 (+3) with a pair of birdies as he finished T-28th at 6-over in his SEC Championship debut. Senior Jack Parrott was the final counting score with a 75 (+5). He made a clutch birdie coming in at the par-3 17th hole. Senior Caleb Proveaux shot 76 (+6). He was 6-over through six holes and fought hard shooting even par the rest of the way with a pair of red numbers.
 
No. 10 Georgia earned the No. 1 seed for match play with a 54-hole score of 842 (+2). Just six shots separated the rest of the teams in the top-eight. Arkansas’ Segundo Pinto earned medalist honors with a wire-to-wire win. He shot 204 (-6) with scores of 64 (-6), 72 (+2) and 68 (-2).
 
The Gamecocks will square off with Alabama in the SEC Match Play Quarterfinals on Saturday morning as the Crimson Tide earned the No. 2 seed via a tiebreaker with Tennessee and LSU (lowest combined non-counting score in stroke play). Proveaux will lead things off in the first match at 8:20 a.m. ET vs. Alabama’s Thomas Ponder.
 
Semifinal matches will take place shortly after the quarterfinals wrap-up with TV coverage starting on the SEC Network+ at 4 p.m. ET.
 
2021 SEC Men’s Golf Championship Stroke Play Gamecock Leaderboard
T5. Jamie Wilson – 210 (E)
T12. Ryan Hall – 213 (+3)
T28. Jack Wall – 216 (+6)
56. Jack Parrott – 222 (+12)
T61. Caleb Proveaux – 225 (+15)
 
2021 SEC Men’s Golf Championship Field
1. No. 10 Georgia – 842 (+2)
T2. No. 37 Alabama – 850 (+10)
T2. No. 19 Tennessee – 850 (+10)
T2. No. 23 LSU – 850 (+10)
5. No. 22 Arkansas – 852 (+12)
6. No. 15 Vanderbilt – 853 (+13)
7. No. 48 South Carolina – 855 (+15)
8. No. 11 Texas A&M – 856 (+16)
T9. No. 14 Auburn – 860 (+20)
T9. No. 17 Florida – 860 (+20)
11. Kentucky – 866 (+26)
12. No. 40 Ole Miss – 874 (+34)
13. No. 49 Missouri – 877 (+37)
14. No. 44 Mississippi State – 879 (+39)
 
*Rankings via Golfstat as of 4/13/21
 
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