Individual Honors
In the past fifty-six years, fifteen Gators golfers have won twenty-one SEC individual titles. Thirty-nine Gators golfers have earned sixty-seven first-team All-SEC honors. Forty-nine Gators have received ninety-three All-American honors. Two Gators have won the individual NCAA national title: Bob Murphy (1966), and Nick Gilliam (2001).
Four Gators have won U.S. Amateur Championship: Bob Murphy (1965), Steve Melnyk (1969), Fred Ridley (1975), and Bubba Dickerson (2001). The Gators' current coach, Buddy Alexander, won the U.S. Amateur in 1986. Melnyk won the British Amateur in 1971.
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