Golfweek

Golfweek’s season-ending honors in men’s golf have found a home in the Peach State.

Josh Gregory, who guided Augusta State to its first NCAA Championship, and Georgia junior Russell Henley, who finished No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings, are Golfweek’s 2009-10 Coach of the Year and Player of the Year, respectively.

For Gregory and Augusta State, their 3-1-1 victory over top-ranked Oklahoma State in the final of the NCAA Championship capped an outstanding season. After opening the fall with 10th place and a sixth place, Augusta State did not finish out of the top 5. The Jaguars notched three tournament victories, then finished second at the NCAA Southwest Regional.

In the spring, ASU moved as high as No. 2 in the rankings and finished No. 5, its best final ranking ever.

“All the credit has to go to the players,” said Gregory, 35, in his eighth season at ASU. “There probably wasn’t a lot of people who gave us much of a chance, but our guys never stopped believing in themselves.”

Henley’s 69.13 rating edged UC-Irvine’s John Chin (69.74) for the No. 1 spot in Golfweek’s individual rankings. Henley won four times, including the Southeastern Conference Championship and the South Central Regional. He had four other top 10s. He tied for 18th individually at the NCAA Championship.

Henley, of Macon, Ga., was a first-team All-American, the SEC Player of the Year and one of three finalists for the 2010 Ben Hogan Award.

“Overall, I feel I had a very good year, especially with the four wins,” Henley said. “Other than a couple of tournaments, I played consistently solid.”

First team

Russell Henley, Jr. (Georgia)

John Chin, Sr. (UC-Irvine)

Nick Taylor, Sr. (Washington)

Diego Velasquez, Sr. (Oregon State)

Bud Cauley, So. (Alabama)

Jonathan Randolph, Jr. (Mississippi)

Peter Uihlein, So. (Oklahoma State)

Harris English, Jr. (Georgia)

Patrick Reed, So. (Augusta State)

Dustin Garza, Sr. (Wichita State)

Second team

Andrea Pavan, Sr. (Texas A&M)

Henrik Norlander, Jr. (Augusta State)

Kevin Tway, Jr. (Oklahoma State)

Corey Nagy, Sr. (Charlotte)

Scott Langley, Jr. (Illinois)

Eugene Wong, So. (Oregon)

Nils Floren, Jr. (Texas Tech)

Cody Gribble, Fr. (Texas)*

Sean Dale, So. (North Florida)

Morgan Hoffmann, So. (Oklahoma State)

Third team

Jesper Kennegard, Jr. (Arizona State)

Brendan Gielow, Sr. (Wake Forest)

Dylan Frittelli, So. (Texas)

David Chung, So. (Stanford)

Chris Ward, Sr. (Texas Tech)

Richard Lee, Sr. (Washington)

Chris Williams, Fr. (Washington)*

John-Tyler Griffin, Jr. (Georgia Tech)

Daniel Miernicki, So. (Oregon)

Tyson Alexander, Sr. (Florida)

Honorable mention

Derek Ernst, So. (UNLV)

Gregor Main, So. (UCLA)

Ben Kohles, So. (Virginia)

T.J. Vogel, Fr. (USC)*

Hunter Hamrick, So. (Alabama)

Ben Martin, Sr. (Clemson)

Steve Ziegler, Jr. (Stanford)

Bobby Hudson, Jr. (Texas)

George Bryan IV, Sr. (South Carolina)

Trent Whitekiller, Sr. (Oklahoma State)

Tim McKenney, Sr. (Florida)

Cameron Peck, Fr. (Texas A&M)*

Jordan Russell, So. (Texas A&M)

Andrew Loupe, Jr. (LSU)

Brooks Koepka, So. (Florida State)

Eric Mina, Jr. (California)

Philipp Westermann, Fr. (SE Louisiana)*

Alex Shi Yup Kim, So. (UCLA)

Espen Kofstad, Sr. (Denver)

Kelly Kraft, Jr. (Southern Methodist)

* – All-freshman team

Note: Teams determined by players’ order in Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.