| Patrick Rada |
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 | Class:
Junior
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| Hometown:
Anderson, S.C.
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| High School:
T.L. Hanna
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| Height:
5-8
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- 2008 SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll
- 2007 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll
| Rada's Career Bests |
| 18-hole score |
68 |
| 54-hole score |
218 |
| Tournament finish |
5th |
| Top 10 finishes |
1 |
| Top 20 finishes |
1 |
2007-08
Played in four tournaments with a 74.09 average ... made his postseason debut at the SEC Championship ... finished a career-best fifth at the Furman Intercollegiate, shaving five strokes off his career low 54-hole total with a 218 (+2) ... Collected a win over Matt Hughes of Alabama in the second round of match play after halving his contest with Florida State's Matthew Savage ... opened the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate with a career-low 68 and went on to finish 57th ... was a member of the SEC Spring Sports Academic Honor Roll.
2006-07
Competed in the season-opening tournament then played in three Garnet Team events ... finished 17th in the Charleston Southern Fall Invitational (Garnet Team) after claiming fourth in the Coker College Collegiate (Garnet Team) ... opened his season with the varsity team at the Carpet Capital Collegiate, highlighted by a second-round 71 ... member of the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to South Carolina
Played for coach Yon Radford at T.L. Hanna High School ... capped his high school career by winning the 4A Individual State Championship in 2006 ... earned all-state honors as a senior ... helped T.L. Hanna advance to State each year during his career and finish in the top four three times (2003, 2004, 2005) ... finished No. 2 in the South Carolina Heritage Classic Foundation Player Rankings and made the American Junior Golf Association's All-America Team in 2005 ... played in the U.S. Amateur during the summer of 2006 ... competed in the South Carolina-Georgia Team Matches and the Carolinas-Virginias Team Matches ... earned medalist honors at both the South Carolina Junior Championship and the AJGA Dunlop Carolina Classic in 2005 ... also placed in the top five at the Ballentine Junior, Anderson Sunshine House Junior, Jimmy Self Junior Championship, Georgia-South Carolina Cup, Junior Azalea, PGA Junior Series-Mississippi, South Carolina Junior Match Play Championship, Carolina's Junior Championship and the South Carolina Junior Four-Ball Championship ... one of four players named to the All-Carolinas Junior Team ... member of the National Honor Society ... selected a member of Junior Leadership Anderson ... received the Life Scholarship.
| Rada's Career Stats |
| Year |
Tourn. |
Rds. |
Strokes |
Avg. |
Low 18 |
Best Finish |
| 2006-07 |
1 |
3 |
226 |
75.33 |
71 |
T71st |
| 2007-08 |
4 |
11 |
815 |
74.09 |
68 |
5th |
| Career |
5 |
14 |
1,041 |
74.36 |
68 |
5th |
| (Garnet Team events not counted in career bests and season stroke averages) |
