Golf Profile

Colin ClarkColin Clark
Sr., 6-6, Durham, N.C.


Career: Clark concludes a brilliant career with a 75.01 stroke average, which ranks fourth in Guilford history, and 19 top-10 finishes... 2006-07: Earned First Team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors for the school-record fourth straight season... had team's second-lowest stroke average and the 26th-lowest average in Guilford history... won his third college tournament at the 2007 ODAC Tournament when he birdied the final five holes for a career-low round of 66, which earned all-tournament honors... ranked third nationally among Golfstat's May 18 Division III subpar strokes per round leaders (3.30) and eighth in par-3 scoring (3.18)... logged a third-place effort at Guilford's Tom O'Briant Memorial this fall and and finished sixth at the Mid-Pines/Pfeiffer Invitational... shared 74th at the NCAA Championships among 180 contestants with a four-round 319... 2005-06: First Team All-ODAC pick... placed 36th at NCAA Championship... finished fourth in the Titlist Long Drive Contest at the Western Refining All-America Golf Classic... had six top-10 finishes including a first-place result at the NCAA Division III Preview... 2004-05: Captured the Outback Steakhouse Arnold Palmer Award as the NCAA Division III medalist by winning a one-hole playoff with teammate Dave Patterson '06… Guilford's first NCAA individual national champion in any sport… First Team PING All-American… had the 10th lowest stroke average in Guilford history… captured two ODAC Player of the Week Awards… 2003-04: Earned PING Honorable Mention All-America honors… PING All-Southeast Region honoree… ODAC Golfer of the Year… First Team All-ODAC… had Guilford’s lowest stroke average, the 17th-best in school history… two-time ODAC Golfer of the Week… had five top-10 finishes… placed ninth at the ODAC Championships… shot a season-low 70 at the Pfeiffer Invitational… Personal: Helped Team USA win the Fuji Xerox Collegiate Golf Classic in Japan in 2006... received Guilford’s English Athletic Leadership and Best Undergraduate Male Athlete Awards in 2006… earned Academic All-ODAC status for 2004-05 season… two-time member of Guilford’s Student-Athlete Honor Roll… played four years under coach Joe Wolfe at Chapel Hill H.S… born 6/15/85 in Minneapolis, Minn… son of Jim Clark and Leigh Gosnell… dean's list business management major.


Year
Rounds
Strokes
Average
Low
NCAA
2003-04
26
1945
74.80
68
300/T19
2004-05
25
1856
74.24
67
290/1st
2005-06
27
2048
75.85
66
309/T36
2006-07
24
1802
75.08
66
319/T74th
Total
102
7651
75.01
66
290/1st