Jonathan Moore Named SGA National Amateur of the Month

With a remarkable three-tournament winning streak, Oklahoma State freshman Jonathan Moore was a unanimous selection as the Southern Golf Association's National Amateur of the Month for May. Moore recorded his first collegiate individual title by winning The Maxwell in mid-May, then continued his hot hand by winning the NCAA Central Regional and the NCAA Championship to close out the season.

Moore, a redshirt freshman from Vancouver, Wash., ran off a Maxwell tournament-record, 14-under-par 196 total at Dornick Hills Country Club in Ardmore, Okla., then posted an 8-under-par 205 score to take individual honors at the NCAA Central Regional at Sand Ridge Golf Club outside Cleveland, Ohio. The latter performance led the Cowboys to a 16-stroke team victory.

Last week, Moore carried his hot streak into the NCAA Championship at Crosswater Golf Club in Sunriver, Ore., taking medalist honors with a 12-under-par 276 total. He closed with a solid 69 during his final round to spur OSU to its 10th national title.

The March-through-October monthly award is selected from amateur performances throughout the U.S. in all age groups by a national blue-ribbon panel of golf officials, coaches and journalists.

The 104-year-old Southern Golf Association promotes amateur golf in a variety of ways, including the staging of the prestigious Southern Amateur Championship, the milestone 100th edition of which will be played in July at the Country Club of Birmingham. The tournament annually rewards its champ with a berth in the PGA Tour's Bay Hill Invitational, which will become the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard in 2007.

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