Georgia Bulldogs are the PGA Tour’s equivalent of the Roy Kent chant from Ted Lasso – they’re here, they’re there, they’re every … where.
Last week in the Wyndham Championship, Russell Henley (UGA Class of 2011) dominated for three rounds before Kevin Kisner (2006) closed the deal in a six-man playoff. The week before, Harris English (2011) aimed for his third win of the year before a four-shot lead slipped away at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude. The week before that, Austrian-born Sepp Straka (2016) was the first-round leader at the Tokyo Olympics and missed the bronze medal playoff by one stroke. The week before, Keith Mitchell (2014) charged into contention before settling for solo fifth at the 3M Open. The week before, Brian Harman (2009) was the early first-round co-leader at the British Open en route to his third top-20 finish in a major this year.
You get the picture. Former Georgia golfers have been ubiquitous on the PGA Tour all season, from Hudson Swafford (2011) winning in the Dominican Republic in September, to English kicking off 2021 with a win in Kapalua, to Chris Kirk (2007) snagging the runner-up finish he had to have at Waialae to retain his tour card after a medical leave to deal with alcohol issues, all the way up to Kisner’s playoff win to cap the regular season.
The tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs got started with the Northern Trust at Liberty National with a record 10 Bulldogs qualified among the top 125 – including Bubba Watson (2001, but finished his UGA degree in 2008) for the 15th consecutive season. It’s a pretty satisfying collective performance for the two men who coached every one of them over the last 25 years at Georgia – head coach Chris Haack and his long-time assistant Jim Douglas. Rarely does a week go by that they don’t enjoy some rooting interest in the hunt at PGA Tour events from a group that has collected four wins, 43 top-10s and $24 million on tour this season alone.
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