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Patrick Cunning

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Aiken, S.C.
  • High school South Aiken
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Aiken, S.C.
  • High school South Aiken

Patrick Cunning Bio

2008 Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar
2008 SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll
2007 SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll
2006 SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll
2005 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll

Cunning[apos]s Career Bests
18-hole score 67
54-hole score 212
Tournament finish 10th
Top 10 finishes 1
Top 20 finishes 2

2007-08
Competed in eight tournaments, including five of the seven spring events … posted a career-best 73.87 average … earned his first career top-10 finish with a share of 10th place to lead the team at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, shooting 216 at the event … took 13th place at the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational with opening rounds of 70 and 71 … finished 24th at The Brickyard Collegiate, carding a season-best 69 in the second round … took 28th place at the Carpet Capital Collegiate with steady rounds of 75, 73 and 73 … was a member of the SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll and a Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar.

2006-07
Played in three varsity events, recording a 74.75 average … led the team with a 25th-place finish in the Corde Valle Intercollegiate, shooting a season-low 70 in the first round en route to a three-round total of 215, the best of his career … member of the SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll.

2005-06
Posted a 74.76 stroke average, the third-best on the team … competed in seven varsity events, including the SEC Championship … tied for 26th at the Hootie at Bulls Bay, his best showing of the year … also carded his lowest round of the season at Bulls Bay, firing a 67 in the second round … during the fall, helped Carolina to the team title at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate … member of the SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll.

2004-05
Took a redshirt year … named to the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to South Carolina
Lettered four years in golf at South Aiken … earned medalist honors at the 2004 State Championship … helped lead South Aiken to 4A State Championships in 2000 and 2004 … named both all-region and all-state in 2003 and 2004 … recipient of the Life Scholarship … posted a 74.0 stroke average as a senior in 2004 and a 75.0 average as a junior in 2003.

Cunning[apos]s Career Stats
Year Tourn. Rds. Strokes Avg. Low 18 Best Finish
2005-06 7 21 1,570 74.76 67 26th
2006-07 3 8 598 74.75 70 25th
2007-08 8 23 1,699 73.87 69 10th
Career 19 52 3,867 74.37 67 10th
(Garnet Team events not counted in career bests and season stroke averages)