Then-senior and Co-Captain Charlie Netzel in 2016 during the second round of the 12th annual Inverness Intercollegiate golf tournament hosted by the University of Toledo at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Photo courtesy of MSU Athletic Communications.
—MSU men's golfers Charlie Netzel and Sam Weatherhead have been named Division I PING All-Midwest Region golfers by the Golf Coaches Association of America Saturday.
This is the second consecutive season the program had two players earn All-Region honors, MSU Athletic Communications announced in a press release. Josh Heinze and Mitch Rutledge earned the honor last season.
Despite an injury-shortened season, Weatherhead was ranked No. 31 by Golfstat. The Grand Rapids, Michigan native shot a season-low 66 for a third-place finish at the Bearcat Invitational and placed a season-best second place at the Gopher Invitational in September.
Netzel won the Colleton River Collegiate in March and shot a career-low 205 at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational. A Western Springs, Illinois native, Netzel ended the season with back-to-back top-10 finishes and averaged a 72.89 — the lowest of any Spartan who competed in over six events — and the sixth-lowest in program history.
Netzel and Weatherhead also took home All-Big Ten honors this season as the Spartans advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row — a feat reached by the program for the first time since the 2008-09 seasons.
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