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Alabama’s Gator Todd made birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday to help the Crimson Tide beat South Carolina in a playoff and defend its title at the Carpet Capital Collegiate.

Alabama shot a tournament-low 282 in the final round at The Farm Golf Club to tie South Carolina at 5-over 869. Georgia Tech shot 4-under 284 to finish one shot back.

Georgia Tech’s Chesson Hadley won the individual title by three shots despite a final-round 74; Hadley opened the tournament with rounds of 65-69. Alabama senior Michael Thompson (pictured), the U.S. Amateur runner-up, finished second at 5 under par. Thompson has placed in the top 3 in his first two events this season.

The Tide played with four of the players who helped win last year’s Carpet Capital. The only new player, Matt Hughes, shot a final-round 67 in his hometown to lead Alabama’s charge. Hughes had no pars in his final 11 holes, making eight birdies and three bogeys.

“It was great how we won it today,” Alabama head coach Jay Seawell said. “It was the first time we’ve had a come-from-behind victory. We’ve had the lead in all our other victories. We played to win today. I’m proud of how we played. We played fearless in trying to find a way to win. And we did.”

Alabama played without senior Joseph Sykora, who won medalist honors at the Topy Cup to lead Alabama to a second-place finish in its season debut. The Tide got off to a similarly hot start last season, winning its first three starts before finishing No. 4 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.

South Carolina’s George Bryan IV and Georgia State’s Joel Sjoholm, the European Amateur runner-up, finished T-3 at 4 under par.

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Final scores with relation to par from the Carpet Capital Collegiate, played Sept. 14-16 at the par-72, 7,012-yard The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Ga.:

TEAMS
1. x-Alabama	292-295-282--869	+	5
1. South Carolina	292-288-289--869	+	5
3. Georgia Tech	296-290-284--870	+	6
4. Auburn	298-287-290--875	+	11
5. Duke	296-293-291--880	+	16
6. Georgia	295-297-290--882	+	18
7. Wake Forest	293-296-294--883	+	19
7. Tennessee	292-300-291--883	+	19
9. Tenn.-Chattanooga	299-294-293--886	+	22
9. Texas Tech	303-292-291--886	+	22
11. East Tennessee St.	291-308-289--888	+	24
12. Florida	300-306-287--893	+	29
13. Clemson	303-291-303--897	+	33
14. Augusta St.	291-303-304--898	+	34
14. TCU	299-304-295--898	+	34
16. Georgia St.	301-300-299--900	+	36
17. Vanderbilt	305-307-289--901	+	37
18. North Carolina St.	303-298-301--902	+	38
• • •
INDIVIDUALS
1. Chesson Hadley, Ga. Tech	65-69-74--208		-8
2. Michael Thompson, Alabama	72-70-69--211		-5
3. George Bryan IV, S. Carolina	71-70-71--212		-4
3. Joel Sjoholm, Ga. St.	70-68-74--212		-4
5. Rhys Enoch, ETSU	71-74-69--214		-2
6. Will Griffin, Texas Tech	76-68-71--215		-1
6. Russell Henley, Georgia	73-71-71--215		-1
6. Adam Mitchell, Georgia	73-74-68--215		-1
6. Gareth Shaw, ETSU	70-76-69--215		-1
10. Brendan Gielow, Wake Forest	72-71-73--216		E
10. Matt Hughes, Alabama	74-75-67--216		E
10. Clark Klaasen, Duke	73-71-72--216		E
10. Derek Rende, UTC	75-72-69--216		E
10. Travis Woolf, TCU	72-72-72--216		E
15. Matt Hill, N.C. St.	73-73-71--217	+	1
15. Jonathan Hodge, UTC	72-74-71--217	+	1
15. Gordon Strother, Auburn	71-73-73--217	+	1
18. Charles Ford, Tennessee	73-77-68--218	+	2
18. Dustin Groves, Wake Forest	73-75-70--218	+	2
18. Patton Kizzire, Auburn	74-70-74--218	+	2
18. Allen Koon, S. Carolina	71-73-74--218	+	2
22. Robby Ormand, TCU	71-74-74--219	+	3
23. Steven Groover, Auburn	75-76-69--220	+	4
23. Paul Haley, Ga. Tech	77-73-70--220	+	4
23. Janne Kaske, Augusta St.	71-72-77--220	+	4
23. Philip Pettitt, Tennessee	71-77-72--220	+	4
23. Robin Wingardh, Tennessee	71-73-76--220	+	4
28. Darren Blair, N.C. St.	74-74-73--221	+	5
28. Patrick Cunning, S. Carolina	75-73-73--221	+	5
28. Jon Curran, Vanderbilt	75-76-70--221	+	5
28. David Dragoo, Ga. Tech	77-74-70--221	+	5
28. Chris McCartin, Wake Forest	75-72-74--221	+	5
28. Santiago Rivas, Texas Tech	75-73-73--221	+	5
28. Manuel Villegas, Florida	74-76-71--221	+	5
35. Mark Harrell, Alabama	75-75-72--222	+	6
35. Adam Long, Duke	75-74-73--222	+	6
35. Jay Moseley, Auburn	79-68-75--222	+	6
35. Matt Pierce, Duke	73-73-76--222	+	6
35. Toby Ragland, Florida	75-79-68--222	+	6
40. Wes Roach, Duke	75-75-73--223	+	7
40. Tom Sherreard, Ga. St.	76-75-72--223	+	7
40. Mark Silvers, S. Carolina	80-72-71--223	+	7
40. Matthew Swan, Alabama	71-75-77--223	+	7
44. Tyson Alexander, Florida	74-76-74--224	+	8
44. David May, Clemson	76-69-79--224	+	8
44. Henrik Norlander, Augusta St.	73-76-75--224	+	8
44. Ben Rickett, UTC	75-74-75--224	+	8
48. Taylor Hall, Ga. Tech	81-74-70--225	+	9
48. Garrett Merrell, Texas Tech	73-77-75--225	+	9
48. Chris Paisley, Tennessee	77-73-75--225	+	9
48. Sam Saunders, Clemson	73-74-78--225	+	9
52. Adam Hofmann, Vanderbilt	78-75-73--226	+	10
53. Brian Harman, Georgia	75-76-76--227	+	11
53. Ben Martin, Clemson	77-79-71--227	+	11
53. Carter Newman, Augusta St.	72-79-76--227	+	11
56. Harris English, Georgia	74-77-77--228	+	12
56. Luke Hopkins, Clemson	77-74-77--228	+	12
56. Matt Smith, Texas Tech	81-74-73--228	+	12
56. Travis Wadkins, Wake Forest	73-78-77--228	+	12
60. Chappell Brown, Florida	77-75-77--229	+	13
60. Tarik Can, Augusta St.	75-78-76--229	+	13
60. Tyler Neff, UTC	77-74-78--229	+	13
60. Michael Schachner, Duke	78-78-73--229	+	13
60. Hudson Swafford, Georgia	78-76-75--229	+	13
60. Billy Whalen, Vanderbilt	75-77-77--229	+	13
66. Sergio Franky, Texas Tech	79-77-74--230	+	14
66. Mitch Krywulycz, Augusta St.	75-77-78--230	+	14
66. Cian McNamara, ETSU	72-81-77--230	+	14
66. Fredrik Qvicker, UTC	77-75-78--230	+	14
70. Hudson Johnson, Vanderbilt	77-82-72--231	+	15
70. Hertzog Landman, N.C. St.	78-75-78--231	+	15
70. Gator Todd, Alabama	80-77-74--231	+	15
73. Florian Fritsch, S. Carolina	75-80-77--232	+	16
74. Brent Cooper, Auburn	78-81-74--233	+	17
74. Jordan Findlay, ETSU	78-81-74--233	+	17
74. Adam Hogue, N.C. St.	78-76-79--233	+	17
74. Kyle Stanley, Clemson	82-74-77--233	+	17
74. Robbie Wight, Florida	77-82-74--233	+	17
79. Ben Murray, TCU	80-77-77--234	+	18
79. Chris Rockwell, Vanderbilt	81-79-74--234	+	18
81. James Sacheck, TCU	76-81-78--235	+	19
82. Franklin Corpening, TCU	81-83-72--236	+	20
82. Cameron Tringale, Ga. Tech	77-84-75--236	+	20
84. Maurice Jordan, Ga. St.	80-81-76--237	+	21
84. Seamus Power, ETSU	81-77-79--237	+	21
86. Alex Castro, Ga. St.	75-86-77--238	+	22
86. Alan Fowler, Ga. St.	84-76-78--238	+	22
88. Andrew Byrd, N.C. St.	79-77-83--239	+	23
89. Preston Yates, Wake Forest	81-81-79--241	+	25
90. Cameron Lawrence, Tennessee	78-86-79--243	+	27

Posted: 9/16/2007

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