NELLYSFORD, Va. – Guilford College golfers Ty Palmer (Kernersville, N.C./Forsyth Country Day) and Justin Perdue earned First Team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors Monday night at the league’s annual championship banquet. The event at the Wintergreen Resort feted the conference’s 10 teams two-thirds of the way through the league championships.
Palmer becomes the Quakers’ 10th three-time First Team All-ODAC selection. Prior to this week’s ODAC Tournament, the junior was second on the team with a 74.10 stroke average that ranked sixth in the ODAC. Palmer won three ODAC’s Men’s Golfer of the Week Awards this season and captured his second career medalist honor at the TaylorMade-adidas Intercollegiate March 8. He shot 71-72-73-216 to finish first, one stroke ahead of Perdue in the 84-man field. Palmer has a team-best six sub-par rounds this season and enters Tuesday’s final round of the ODAC Championships in third place, four strokes off the lead. Palmer has four top-six finishes in eight tournaments this year.
Perdue entered the ODAC Tournament ranked 74th among NCAA Division III players according to Golfstat.com. The freshman led Guilford and ranked third in the ODAC prior to the tournament with a 74.0 stroke average in 16 rounds. He has four sub-par rounds and three top-eight finishes in six tourneys. In addition to finishing a stroke behind Palmer in second place at the TaylorMade-adidas Intercollegiate, Perdue claimed third at the O’Briant-Jensen Memorial Tournament October 20 at the Sedgefield Golf and Country Club-Dye Course. He won the ODAC’s Golfer of the Week Award for his play there.
The pair has helped coach Justin Tereshko’s Quakers to the number-15 spot in this week’s Bushnell Golfweek Division III Coaches’ Poll. Guilford is ranked a league-best 17th in the Golfstat.com NCAA Division III Head-to-Head Ratings. The Quakers enter Tuesday’s final round of the ODAC Championships eight shots off the lead in third place among 10 teams. Guilford is the tournament’s five-time defending champion.