Florida's Tyson Alexander Named SGA National Amateur of Month
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Men's Golf
Prior to winning his first individual title of his collegiate career on April 6 at the BancorpSouth Intercollegiate, UF senior Tyson Alexander (Gainesville, Fla.) was selected as the Southern Golf Association's National Amateur of the Month for March. During the month, Alexander won the 62nd Azalea Invitational at Charleston (SC) Country Club with a tournament record total of 16-under-par 268. Later in the month, he added a second-place finish, just one shot behind, in the elite-field Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas.
Alexander won the venerable Azalea by five shots over a strong amateur field.
The SGA March-through-October award kicks off its eighth season. The monthly winners are picked by a blue-ribbon national panel of golf journalists, officials and coaches.
The SGA is active in the promotion of amateur golf in a number of ways, including its storied Southern Amateur Championship, the 104th playing set for Shoal Creek Country Club near Birmingham in July. The winner will earn a sponsor's exemption to compete in the PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando next March.
Having won the 2006 Southern Junior, Alexander would be in position at Shoal Creek to join Justin Leonard as the only players to win both the Southern Junior and Southern Amateur.
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