Johnson and Sharp Earn PING All-Midwest Region Honors
5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
EAST LANSING - Michigan State golfers Michael Sharp and Kaleb Johnson have been named to the PING All-Midwest Region Team. It's the first such honor for Johnson and Sharp, while it marks the second straight year MSU has had two players named to the all-region team as Charlie Netzel and Sam Weatherhead garnered the accolade in 2017.
Johnson, a second-team All-Big Ten selection, posted the fifth-best single season average in program history at 72.62. The sophomore had three top-three finishes, including his first career tournament win at the Inverness Intercollegiate at 8-under-par 142, thereafter earning Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors.
The native of Naples, Florida, claimed third place at the Quail Valley Intercollegiate with an 8-under-par 204 -- the third-lowest 54-hole tournament score in program history, which also tied a career best.
Johnson also recorded some of the lowest rounds by a Spartan as his 65s at both the Inverness and Quail Valley tournaments rank as the second-lowest scores in program history.
Johnson led all Spartans at the Big Ten Championships by taking 15th (5-over-par 215), while he and Sharp led the Green and White at the NCAA Columbus Regional, tying for 24th place (7-over-par 220).
Sharp, who was also a second-team All-Big Ten selection, recorded the sixth-best single season average in program history as his 72.76 was just .14 behind Johnson in 2017-18. His 73.95 career average is also sixth best in MSU history.
The Kendallville, Indiana, native had four top-10 finishes this past season, which was more than any other Spartan. Sharp had one of his best runs of the season early in the spring as he had three top-10 finishes over a span of four tournaments, including: eighth at the Colleton River Collegiate (8-over-par 224); and sixth and both the Seahawk Intercollegiate (1-over-par 217) and Kepler Intercollegiate (1-over-par 214).
Sharp's season best 54-hole mark of 4-under-par 212 at the Bearcat Invitational included his first of two season-best 67s.
Sharp graduated with a 3.97 GPA in actuarial science and was a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree.
PING All-Midwest Region Team
Bryan Baumgarten, Illinois
Jake Brown, Indiana
Brian Carlson, Purdue
Hunter Eichorn, Marquette
Michael Feagles, Illinois
Patrick Flavin, Miami
Nick Hardy, Illinois
Ian Holt, Kent State
Chase Johnson, Kent State
Kaleb Johnson, Michigan State
Ryan Lumsden, Northwestern
Dylan Meyer, Illinois
Kyle Mueller, Michigan
Matt Murlick, Marquette
Bjarki Petursson, Kent State
Billy Tom Sargent, Western Kentucky
Alex Schaake, Iowa
Matthias Schmid, Louisville
Michael Sharp, Michigan State
Austin Squires, Cincinnati
Sam Triplett, Northwestern
Alex Weiss, Marshall
Daniel Wetterich, Ohio State
Peyton Wilhoit, Souhern Illinois
Dylan Wu, Northwestern
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