CARLSBAD, Calif. – Georgia Tech's Christo Lamprecht and Tai Hiroshi were named Division I PING First Team All-Americans on Wednesday at the NCAA Division I Championships in partnership with the National Golf Coaches Association and Golf Channel. This is the second consecutive year Lamprecht has been selected to the team, and Tai joins Lamprecht after winning individual titles at the NCAA Championships.
Florida State's Luke Clanton, Arizona State's Wenyi Ding, East Tennessee State's Mats Ege, North Florida's Nick Gabrelsik, Virginia's Ben James, Auburn's Jackson Koyvan, Vanderbilt's Gordon Sargent, Stanford's Michael Thorbjornsen and Auburn's Brendan Valdez were named to the first team.
This is the first time two Georgia Tech players have been named to the first team since Matt Kuchar and Bryce Mulder won the award in 2000. Lamprecht is the first Tech player to be named to the first team twice since Ollie Schneiderjans in 2014 and 2015.
Tech and Auburn are the only programs with two varsity players on their 11-man teams.
Lamprecht completed a four-year career that rivaled some of the best in program history. The senior from George, South Africa was a finalist for the National Player of the Year award (Ben Hogan, Fred Haskins and Jack Nicklaus) and was named the 2024 Byron Nelson Award recipient, which is presented to the top senior golfer in the country based on four-year achievement on the golf course, academic achievement and contributions to the community. He was also named the 2024 ACC Player of the Year.
During his collegiate career, Lamprecht won the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational, earned a co-medal at this year's Ben Hogan Invitational and had six top-10 finishes overall. Additionally, Lamprecht shared second place at the Watersound Invitational and tied for third at this spring's ACC Championships. He also broke the program records for season stroke average (69.16) and career stroke average (70.05), which had been held by Bryce Mulder since 2001.
Lamprecht is ranked atop the World Amateur Golf Rankings, second in the PGA Tour Collegiate Rankings and fifth in the Scoreboard National Collegiate Golf Ranking System.
Tai automatically made the team because she won this year's NCAA Individual Championship, but the sophomore had an outstanding season. The Singaporean finished in the top 10 three times in 11 events prior to the NCAA Championships, including a tie for eighth at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, seventh at the Watersound Invitational and fifth at the RE Lamkin Invitational. She also tied for 12th at the ACC Championships and had six other top 20 finishes. Her stroke average through 35 rounds was 70.74.
Winning the NCAA Championship means Tai will compete in the U.S. Open in June and the Masters in April next year.
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