Michigan Golf Journal May 2020

29 May 2020 www.michigangolfjournal.com Maximize Your Play Time The best golf destinations cover a lot of ground beyond the 18th green. French Lick Resort is the golf getaway with more to love. We have 45 holes of golf, including championship courses by legendary designers Pete Dye and Donald Ross. Add in hundreds of ways to win at the casino, casual and fine dining plus other amenities, and the numbers are on your side for an epic golf trip. French Lick Resort brings it all together with golf, food, fun and gaming at one unforgettable destination. For groups of 8 or more, give our golf group sales manager Alex Whiteman a call at 812-936-9300 (ext. 7227) to get the ball rolling. Must be 21 years or older to enter the casino. Gambling Problem? Call 1.800.9.WITH.IT! 3 MSU Golfers Awarded Michigan State junior James Piot, of Canton, has been named to the PING All-Midwest Region Team for a second straight year. He led the Spartans with a 72.18 scoring average in 2019-20 – the 5 th lowest single-season mark in program history – adding the first two tournament wins of his career (Island Resort Intercollegiate and the Inverness Intercollegiate.) Piot fired the lowest round of his collegiate career, a 6-under-par 66 in the second round of the Quail Valley Intercollegiate. Piot owns a 72.39 career scoring average, which is currently 3 rd best in MSU history. MSU’s Allyson Geer-Park and Valery Plata both earned Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-America honorable mention honors, Geer- Parks for the second time (2018). The Brighton native finished with the best career average in program history at 72.81 after logging a 72.39 her shortened senior season. She has since turned pro. Plata, a native of Colombia, cut nearly three strokes off her scoring average from last year, finishing her sophomore season at 72.5. Her win at the Tar Heel Invitational included three rounds in the 60s – 69, 68 and 68. MSU ended the year ranked No. 16. MGJ