Nathan Franks

AWARDS/HONORS

• SEC Golfer of the Week (March 15, 2023)
• GCAA Scholar All-American (2022-23)
• College Sorts Communicators Academic All-District (2022-23)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2023)
• SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll (2021-22)

2023-24 (JUNIOR)

2022-23 (SOPHOMORE)

• One of two players to play and start in all 11 events for the Gamecocks
• Led the team with a 71.97 scoring average and a trio of top-five finishes
• Paced Carolina with a T-38^th finish at the SEC Championship (April 19-21)
• T-4^th at the General Hackler Championship (March 13-14) ; shot 207 (-9) with three consecutive red numbers ; performance earned him SEC Golfer of the Week honors for the first time in his career
• T-2^nd at the Palmetto Intercollegiate (March 6-7) helping lead the team to a comfortable victory ; shot 206 (-4) with rounds of 69-67-70 ; was a career-best finish
• Defeated Cameron Tankersley of Ole Miss at the SEC Match Play (Sept. 25-27) ; shot 209 (-1) in the stroke play portion with a T-36^th finish ; his final round 65 (-5) matched a career-best, 18-hole score

2021-22 (FRESHMAN)

• Saw action in all 10 of the team’s stroke play events (nine starts in the lineup), posting a scoring average of 72.60
• Posted 13 rounds of par or better
• T-34^th at NCAA Norman Regional (May 17-19) after shooting 221 (+5)
• T-34^th at the SEC Championship (April 21-23) after shooting 213 (+3) ; carded a 3-under 67 in the second round which matched a season-best, 18-hole score
• Had a season-best T-21^st finish at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (March 27-29) ; shot 214 (-2) with a season-best score of 67 (-5) in the opening round
• T-22^nd at the Puerto Rico Classic (Feb. 13-15) with a season-best, 54-hole score of 208 (-8)
• Shot 220 (+4) and T-25^th at the Daniel Island Invitational
• Made his debut in Garnet & Black playing as an individual in the J.T. Poston Invitational (Sept. 27-28) ; T-40^th at 4-over (217) and shot 69 (-2) in his first collegiate round

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• AJGA Rolex All-American
• 6 in the state in the final SCJGA rankings and No. 126 in the final Rolex AJGA rankings
• Two-time all-state and three-time all-region selection for the Dorman Cavaliers
• T-5^th at the 2021 Scott Robertson Memorial
• 2021 5A Upper State Champion
• 2021 Hurricane Invitational Champion
• 2021 Rebel Invitational Champion
• 2020 AJGA Rome Junior Classic runner-up
• 2020 CGA Creed Boys Invitational Champion
• 2020 CGA Mimosa Hills Junior Invitational Champion
• 2019 AJGA Calloway Golf – Ollie Schniederjans Junior Classic Champion
• Member of the Beta Club and National Honor Society

PERSONAL

• Son of Ed and Shannon Franks – has a younger sister, Abby
• Statistics major
• The All-Star Special is his go to Waffle House order
• 8-iron is his favorite club in the bag because he feels the most control with it
• Musgrove Mill is favorite course to play in South Carolina
• Sandlot is his favorite movie and Arrow is favorite TV show
• Mountains in the middle of nowhere is his dream vacation spot