Peach Belt Releases Golf All-Conference Team

AIKEN, S.C. -- The Peach Belt Conference announced the 2008 men’s golf All-Conference team at a banquet in Aiken, S.C., site of this year’s PBC Championship. Armstrong Atlantic State’s Chris Wolfe was named the Player of the Year while Joe Young of Georgia College & State University the Freshman of the Year. Young’s coach, Jimmy Wilson, was named the coach of the year.

Wolfe becomes the second Pirate in four years to win the Player of the Year honor, joining Thomas Whittaker who won in 2004. A junior from Warner Robins, Ga., Wolfe had four tournament wins in 2007-08 to lead all PBC golfers. He was second in the league with a 71.9 stroke average and tied for the league lead with a single-round 65 which came in the opening round of the Kiawah Island Invitational. He shot 69 or better six times and had five top five finishes.

Joe Young had the lowest stroke average on the team with the lowest stroke average in the PBC. A true freshman from Cochran, Ga., Young averaged 73.8 in nine events, finishing in the top 10 three times. He came in fifth at the Richard Rendleman Inviational, which GCSU won, and was named the PBC Player of the Week on April 11. Young is the second Bobcat to be named the Freshman of the Year, joining his teammate Juan Bialet who took the award in 2005.

Jimmy Wilson is the PBC Coach of the Year for the second time in his 11-year tenure at GCSU. He also won the award in 2000. Under his guidance, the Bobcats have the lowest stroke average in the PBC this season and have five top-5 finishes including a win at the Rendleman. GCSU is ranked 10th in the latest Golf World/Nike poll and hope to win their first PBC Championship since 2000.

Below is the 2007-08 golf All-Conference team as selected by the league’s head coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.

2008 Peach Belt Conference
Golf All-Conference Team
Roberto Diaz, USC Aiken
Andrew Georgiou, Columbus State
Jeff Goff, USC Aiken
Niclas Johansson, GCSU
J.P. van der Walt, Columbus State
Will Wilcox, Clayton State
Chris Wolfe, Armstrong Atlantic State
Joe Young, GCSU

Player of the Year: Chris Wolfe, Armstrong Atlantic State
Freshman of the Year: Joe Young, GCSU
Coach of the Year: Jimmy Wilson, GCSU