Richard Fountain
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Fountain Draws No. 8 Seed in NCAA Virginia Tech Region
5/9/2011 7:30:44 PM | Men's Golf
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Southern Conference Individual Medalist Richard Fountain will compete for Davidson as the No. 8 individual seed in the NCAA Men's Golf Virginia Tech Regional hosted at The Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech May 19-21 in Radford, Va., the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship Committee announced Monday evening.
Thirteen teams will compete in the Virginia Tech Regional, including Atlantic Coast Conference champion No. 5 Georgia Tech, No. 9 Louisiana State, No. 16 Duke and No. 18 Virginia. Fountain is one of 10 additional individual competitors that will strive to be the low individual not on one of the low five teams that will advance to the finals.
The Raleigh, N.C. freshman will be the first Davidson golfer to compete in an NCAA regional golf tournament since the regional tournament format was adopted in 1989.
The Virginia Tech Regional is one of six 54-hole regional tournaments being conducted May 19-21 to determine the 30 qualifying teams and six individuals not on those qualifying teams who will compete in the finals May 31-June 5 at Karsten Creek Golf Course in Stillwater, Okla.
Fountain will be joined in the Virginia Tech Region by Southern Conference foe Chandler Brazeal, who is the No. 6 seed.
Southern Conference team champion Georgia Southern will compete at Golden Ocala Golf Club in Ocala, Fla. as the 13th seed in the Florida Regional, while Chattanooga earned an at-large bid and will compete in the Colorado Regional at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colo. as the No. 6 seed. Mecklenburg County rival Charlotte will be the No. 10 seed in the Indiana Regional at Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, Ind.
The Arizona Regional will be held at the Omni Tucson Nationals Resort in Tucson, Ariz. and the San Diego Regional will be held at The Farms Golf Course in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
The last time a Wildcat golfer competed in an NCAA golf championship event was 38 years ago. Rusty Boyd, the SoCon individual medalist, competed in the 1973 NCAA national tournament (won for the third-consecutive year by Texas' Ben Crenshaw at the Stillwater Golf & Country Club in Stillwater, Okla.) Boyd placed 61st in the field of 36 teams with a four-round score of 299 (71-73-72-83).
This past April at the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence, S.C., Fountain became the first Davidson golfer since Boyd in 1973 to win individual medalist honors at the SoCon Tournament, thus earning the league's automatic individual NCAA Regional. He fired a tournament-low, final-round, five-under-par 67, which included a birdie on the final hole, to win by one stroke at 207 (68-72-67), nine-under par.
Virginia Tech Region
Teams
1. Georgia Tech (Atlantic Coast Conference)
2. LSU
3. Duke
4. Virginia
5. Oklahoma
6. Kent State (Mid-America Conference)
7. Virginia Tech
8. Mississippi
9. East Carolina
10. North Carolina-Wilmington (Colonial Athletic Association)
11. Coastal Carolina
12. Lamar
13. Yale (The Ivy League)
Individuals
1. TJ Howe, Penn State
2. Christian Brand, Marshall
3. Jake Katz, Binghamton
4. Vaita Guillaume, Campbell
5. Adam Hoffman, Vanderbilt
6. Chandler Brazeal, Wofford
7. Matt Moot, Campbell
8. Richard Fountain, Davidson
9. Herbert Day, Xavier
10. Peter Williamson, Dartmouth
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