Indiana University Athletics
Overton Earns SGA Amateur Honor for October
11/5/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
November 5, 2004
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Following a month where he average a 67.40, Indiana men's golfer Jeff Overton was named honorable mention for October's National Amateur of the Month by the Southern Golf Association. The senior All-American candidate was also named honorable mention in 2003 for the month of October.
Wisconsin senior golfer Mark Bemowski was named National Amateur of the Month. Bemowski, 58, the first senior winner of the award in its two-year history, won on the strength of his triumph in the USGA Senior Amateur last month at Bel Air C.C. in Los Angeles.
The monthly award is chosen by the SGA's 12-man selection panel of national golf officials, journalists and college coaches.
Overton, who fired a 61 - the second lowest competitive round in NCAA history - took medalist honors in the Xavier Invitational by 11 strokes with a stunning 24-under-par 192 total.
He closed out the fall campaign with a tie for fourth at the Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge, featuring one of the top fields in collegiate golf.
Earlier winners of the award this year were Camilo Villegas of Florida; 2003 Southern Am champ Casey Wittenberg, John Holmes of Kentucky, U.S. Open low am Spencer Levin, U.S. Amateur champ Ryan Moore, Oklahoma State freshman Pablo Martin and Georgia State's Ty Harris.
The 102-year-old SGA puts on three of the nation's top amateur tournaments, including the Southern Am (99th at Myrtle Beach in July) and the Southern Junior (33rd in Orlando in June).
