Three Razorbacks Earn SEC MGolf Honors

FAYETTEVILLE – The Arkansas men’s golf program had two players – Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira and Luke Long – voted to the All-SEC second team by the league’s coaches while Wil Gibson was named to the SEC Community Service Team, the conference announced today.

This is the third straight year Arkansas has landed two players on the All-SEC team while Gibson has been named to the SEC Community Service Team for the third consecutive season.

Fernandez de Oliveira won the Jackson T. Stephens Cup this season and posted five top 10 finishes while leading the team with 19 rounds at par or better. He came to Arkansas after two seasons at TCU and he has lowered his season stroke average by nearly two strokes to 70.89, currently third on the school’s single-season list. Fernandez de Oliveira is 45th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and the top-ranked amateur from South America. In addition to earning his first three top-5  collegiate finishes this season (at the three fall events), he won this year’s South America Amateur Championship and was runner-up at the Latin America Amateur Championship. This summer he will represent Team International at the Arnold Palmer Cup and, thanks to being runner-up at the LAAC, he earned exemptions into the final round of qualifying for both the U.S. Open and The Open Championships.

Long earns his third career all-conference honor as he was selected first team All-OVC as a freshman at SIU-Edwardsville and first team All-SoCon as a sophomore at Chattanooga. He added All-Region honors as a junior at Houston. He is currently 31st on the PGA University ranking and 131st in the WAGR. His 71.26 scoring average to date ranks sixth on the school’s single-season list. Like Fernandez de Oliveira, Long won his first collegiate event this season by carding an 11-under-par 205 in winning the Blessings Collegiate Invitational. He leads the team with four eagles, 104 birdies and 10 rounds in the 60’s.

Gibson, a junior who graduated this spring from Arkansas, is the first Razorback to be named to the SEC Community Service Team three times – and his just the third Hog to earn the honor more than once. This past year, Gibson volunteered with the Salvation Army and had community engagement with various businesses in Northwest Arkansas dealing with integrity wealth capital and finances.

2022 SEC MEN’S GOLF HONORS

FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
John DuBois, Florida
Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt
Sam Bennett, Texas A&M
Fred Biondi, Florida
Trent Phillips, Georgia
Jackson Suber, Ole Miss
Spencer Cross, Tennessee
Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt

SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
J.M. Butler, Auburn
Ryan Hall, South Carolina
Walker Lee, Texas A&M
Reid Davenport, Vanderbilt
Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira, Arkansas
Bryce Lewis, Tennessee
Luke Long, Arkansas
Ricky Castillo, Florida

COACH OF THE YEAR: Scott Limbaugh, Vanderbilt
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Sam Bennett, Texas A&M
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Ford Clegg, Mississippi State
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt

ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Cohen Trolio, LSU
Maxwell Ford, Georgia
Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt
Evan Vo, Auburn
Kye Meeks, Ole Miss

COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM
Canon Claycomb, Alabama
Wil Gibson, Arkansas
Brendan Valdes, Auburn
Tyler Wilkes, Florida
Connor Creasy, Georgia
Jacob Cook, Kentucky
Jack Gnam, Ole Miss
Harrison Davis, Mississippi State
Tommy Boone, Missouri
Ryan Hall, South Carolina
Spencer Cross, Tennessee
Michael Heidelbaugh, Texas A&M
Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt

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