Kim Garners PING All-America Third Team Honors
6/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
June 23, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan men's golfer Lion Kim (Lake Mary, Fla./Lake Mary Prep School) was honored today (Thursday, June 23) with PING Division I All-America third team honors by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
The honor is the second in Kim's career; he received honorable mention in 2009. Kim becomes the fifth Wolverine to earn multiple All-America honors, joining Bill Newton (1965, '66), Randy Erskine (1968, '70), Tom McParlan (1974, 75) and Michael Harris (1998, 2000).
Earning PING All-Midwest Region honors for the third straight season, Kim highlighted his senior campaign by winning two tournaments, leading U-M to its first NCAA Regional title and a trip back to the NCAA Championships. He also competed in the 2011 Masters.
Kim captured the first two medalist honors of his career by winning the 2010 Windon Memorial Classic and the 2011 NCAA Central Regional, which helped U-M advance to its second NCAA Championships in the last three years. He nearly won his third event at NCAAs, tying for third and helping U-M to a 10th-place finish in the stroke-play portion of the national finals.
Kim, a 2011 All-Big Ten selection, set the senior season records for scoring average with a 72.09 per-round mark, just missing the U-M all-time single season mark of 72.00 held by teammate Matt Thompson (Battle Creek, Mich./Lakeview). Kim led U-M with 19 total rounds of par or better this season, including carding a career-best 65 twice -- first round (-7) of the 2010 Bridgestone Intercollegiate and final round (-6) of the NCAA Central Regional. He has seven top-20 finishes, including five in the top 10 and four in the top five. Overall, he has finished as the top Wolverine in six-of-14 events.
After winning the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship in the summer of 2010, Kim earned an invitation to compete in the 2011 Masters, where he missed the cut after shooting rounds of 76 and 72.
2011 PING ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
First Team
Patrick Cantlay, UCLA
Bud Cauley, Alabama
Luke Guthrie, Illinois
Morgan Hoffmann, Oklahoma State
John Peterson, LSU
Patrick Reed, Augusta State
Kevin Tway, Oklahoma State
Peter Uihlein, Oklahoma State
Bank Vongvanij, Florida
James White, Georgia Tech
Andrew Yun, Stanford
Second Team
Blayne Barber, Auburn
Phillip Choi, Florida
Harris English, Georgia
J.T. Griffin, Georgia Tech
Jeff Karlsson, Kennesaw State
Henrik Norlander, Augusta State
Jordan Russell, Texas A&M
Kyle Scott, Georgia Tech
Cory Whitsett, Alabama
Chris Williams, Washington
Third Team
Andres Echavarria, Florida
Ignacio Elvira, Texas A&M
Nils Floren, Texas Tech
Dylan Frittelli, Texas
Vince India, Iowa
LION KIM, MICHIGAN
Ben Kohles, Virginia
Gregor Main, UCLA
Jason Millard, Middle Tennessee
J.J. Spaun, San Diego State
Honorable Mention
Abraham Ancer, Oklahoma
Todd Baek, San Diego State
Evan Beck, Wake Forest
Lee Bedford, Wake Forest
Chris Brant, Iowa
Sebastian Cappelen, Arkansas
Albin Choi, NC State
Austin Cook, Arkansas
Chris DeForest, Illinois
John Hahn, Kent State
Matt Hansen, UC Davis
Russell Henley, Georgia
Kelly Kraft, SMU
Scott Langley, Illinois
David Lipsky, Northwestern
Jace Long, Missouri
Andrew Loupe, LSU
Alex Moore, Oregon State
Brinson Paolini, Duke
Cameron Peck, Texas A&M
Andrew Putnam, Pepperdine
Mitchell Sutton, NC State
Hudson Swafford, Georgia
Michael Weaver, California
Pontus Widegren, UCLA
Robin Wingardh, Tennessee
Contact: Tom Wywrot (734) 763-4423
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