ABAC Golfers Ready To Tee It Up!

Terry English transferred to ABAC from Gainesville College in the Fall of 2010 and walked on and made the golf team. His major is Turf Grass and Golf Course Management with a GPC of over 3.0. He played in every tournament and gradually improved in each one. He is All-Region and low medalist with 72, 72, 68 scores for three rounds at the Region 17 Tournament held at Jekyll Island April 22-24. He will be attending the National Tournament in Scottsboro, Alabama May 15-20 to participate and hoping to capture All-American honors.

Ms. ABAC, Laurel Higginbotham, with ABAC Golf Team

No matter what time of year it is, warm weather and blue skies are never far away in Tifton. Those weather conditions bode well for the ABAC golf team which has become a force to be reckoned with in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA).

The Stallions compete against Georgia teams as well as squads from surrounding states. ABAC always plays a fall tournament schedule as well as a very tough spring lineup of matches.

The Stallions never lack for a practice site since ABAC owns and operates the nine-hole Forest Lakes Golf Club. Tifton Ophthalmologist Larry Moorman and his wife, Debra, donated the $1 million course to the ABAC Foundation in January, 2002.

ABAC uses the Forest Lakes course for practice and plays home tournaments at Ironwood Golf & Country Club Community.

For more information about the ABAC golf team, contact Coach Herb Hendrix at (229) 391-4934 or hhendrix@abac.edu

Ms. ABAC Winner Sponsored By ABAC Golf Team

Laurel Higginbotham, a pre-dentistry major from Baxley, captured the Ms. ABAC 2011 title at the 42nd annual event on Wednesday at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

Sponsored by the men’s golf team at ABAC, Higginbotham is a sophomore who is the parliamentarian of the ABAC Ambassadors, a Buddy Ball volunteer, a 4-H Rock Eagle summer counselor, and participates in the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program.

“This means so much to me,” Higginbotham, who hopes to be an orthodontist, said. “I love ABAC. I knew when I came here that I would get the support from the professors that I might not get at a larger college. I want to be a great representative for ABAC.”

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