June 6, 2007

Previous Sun Devil Men's Golf All-Americans

The second, third and honorable mention PING Division I All-America Teams have been announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America and Arizona State's Benjamin Alvarado Holley has earned second-team honors. After earning honorable mention All-American honors last year with a 20th-place finish at the NCAA Championships and notching a 72.50 stroke average (fifth-best by a freshmen in ASU history), he finished this season with a 70.62 stroke average, sixth-best in ASU history (ASU top-10 list below), and was 42-under par in the final 16 rounds (five tournaments) of the year.

Lemke and Alvarado Holley's honors give head coach Randy Lein 34 All-American selections among 14 players in his 15-year career at ASU. Other All-American under Lein include Todd Demsey (3), Chris Hanell (3), Paul Casey (3), Cade Stone, Chris Stutts, Joey Snyder (2), Scott Johnson (2), Darren Angel (2), Jeff Quinney (3), Matt Jones (2), Chez Reavie (3), Alejandro Canizares (4), Lemke (3) and Benjamin Alvarado Holley (2).

ASU senior Niklas Lemke earned first-team honors, announced on June 2, along with Rhys Davies of East Tennessee State, Florida's Billy Horschel, Dustin Johnson of Coastal Carolina, Georgia's Chris Kirk and Brendon Todd, Southern California's Jamie Lovemark, Kyle Stanley of Clemson, Brigham Young's Daniel Summerhays and Dawie van der Walt of Lamar .

Alvarado Holley, New Mexico's Charlie Beljan, Jonas Blixt of Florida State, Stanford's Josepth Bramlett and Rob Grube, Roberto Castro and Cameron Tringale of Georgia Tech, UCLA's Kevin Chappell, Brian Harman of Georgia and Alabama's Michael Thompson were named to the second team.

Third-team honorees include Texas A&M's Bronson Burgoon, Derek Fathauer of Louisville, Michigan State's Matt Harmon, Colt Knost of SMU, UCLA's Lucas Lee, Brian Locke of Loyola Marymount, Stanford's Zack Miller and Matthew Savage, Joel Sjoholm of Georgia State and North Carolina's Martin Ureta..

A total of 29 golfers were named honorable mention All-America (see list below)

ASU MEN'S GOLF SCORING AVERAGES (1987-2007)

Sun Devil, Events	Year	Scoring Average
1. Paul Casey, 10	1999-2000	69.87
2. Phil Mickelson, 12	1991-1992	69.95
3. Niklas Lemke, 12	2006-2007	70.03
4. Phil Mickelson, 11	1990-1991	70.08
5. Billy Mayfair, 13	1986-1987	70.59
6. Benjamin Alvarado Holley, 12	2006-2007	70.62
7. Phil Mickelson, 14	1989-1990	70.82
8. Chez Reavie, 14	2003-2004	71.05
9. Alejandro Canizares, 13	2005-2006	71.22
10. Alejandro Canizares, 14	2003-2004	71.38

Division I PING All-America Teams
First Team
Rhys Davies, East Tennessee State
Billy Horschel, Florida
Dustin Johnson, Coastal Carolina
Chris Kirk, Georgia
Niklas Lemke, Arizona state
Jamie Lovemark, Southern California
Kyle Stanley, Clemson
Daniel Summerhays, Brigham Young
Brendon Todd, Georgia
Dawie van der Walt, Lamar
Second Team
Benjamin Alvarado Holley, Arizona State
Charlie Beljan, New Mexico
Jonas Blixt, Florida State
Joseph Bramlett, Stanford
Roberto Castro, Georgia Tech
Kevin Chappell, UCLA
Rob Grube, Stanford
Brian Harman, Georgia
Michael Thompson, Alabama
Cameron Tringale, Georgia Tech
Third Team
Bronson Burgoon, Texas A&M
Derek Fathauer, Louisville
Matt Harmon, Michigan State
Colt Knost, SMU
Lucas Lee, UCLA
Brian Locke, Loyola Marymount
Zack Miller, Stanford
Matthew Savage, Stanford
Joel Sjoholm, Georgia State
Martin Ureta, North Carolina
Honorable Mention
Victor Almstrom, Minnesota
Oliver Bekker, Lamar
Louie Bishop, UC Davis
Matt Bortis, Texas
George Bryan IV, South Carolina
Jon Curran, Vanderbilt
Andrew DiBitetto, Charlotte
Oscar Floren, Texas Tech
Charles Ford, Tennessee
Aaron Goldberg, San Diego State
Chesson Hadley, Georgia Tech
Jason Kokrak, Xavier
Bronson LaCassie, Minnesota
Andrew Landry, Arkansas
Trent Leon, Oklahoma State
Daniel Lim, Stanford
Michael Manning, Augusta State
Pablo Martin, Oklahoma State
Adam Mitchell, Georgia
Brett Myers, Tulsa
Corey Nagy, Charlotte
Lindsey Renolds, Coastal Carolina
Matt Savage, Florida State
Michael Schachner, Duke
Gareth Shaw, East Tennessee State
Webb Simpson, Wake Forest
Tim Streng, Western Illinois
Zach Sucher, UAB
Jarred Texter, UNLV
Niall Turner, Minnesota
Mike Van Sickle, Marquette
Dan Woltman, Wisconsin