COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina junior Ryan Hall won the Albuquerque Regional by a shot over Texas A&M's Sam Bennett and Oklahoma's Jonathan Brightwell and will compete at the NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona as an individual next week at the Grayhawk Golf Club.
Hall shot a final round 69 (-3) to finish with a 54-hole score of 205 (-11). He shot 68 (-4) in both the first and second rounds.
The Knoxville native is just the third regional champion in program history joining former All-American and PGA TOUR player Kyle Thompson. The Anderson product won regionals twice as a Gamecock in 1999 and 2001.
For Hall, this is his second win of the season after winning the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational in April.
As a team, South Carolina shot a final round 293 (+5) to finish ninth with a three-day total of 861 (-3). The top five teams advanced to the NCAA Championship.
