COLUMBIA, S.C. – Junior Nathan Franks earned a spot on the Golfweek Honorable Mention All-America squad the organization announced on Wednesday. He becomes the 27th different player to be named an All-American at South Carolina and it marks the 44th All-America honor for the program all-time.
Franks, who ranked second on the team with a 70.86 scoring average, had a trio of top-20 finishes in seven stroke play starts while shooting par or better in 14 of 21 rounds played this season. He picked up the first two wins of his career this spring at the Thomas Sharkey Individual Collegiate (Feb. 3-4) and the Schenkel Invitational (March 15-17).
He posted scores of 204 (-12) and 203 (-13), respectively, in the victories earning SEC Golfer of the Week honors both times.
The Roebuck, S.C., native missed the team’s next four tournaments due to injury and returned for the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional (Mary 13-15). He paced Carolina with a T-12th finish at 1-under for the tournament. Franks rose 15 spots up the leaderboard in the final round thanks to a 66 (-6). He was bogey free at 8-under with two holes to play before catching a pair of tough breaks the final finishing holes.
2024 Golfweek All-American Teams
First Team
Luke Clanton, Florida State
Wenyi Ding, Arizona State
Mats Ege, East Tennessee State
Nick Gabrelcik, North Florida
Ben James, Virginia
Jackson Koivun, Auburn
Christo Lamprecht, Georgia Tech
Gordon Sargent, Vanderbilt
Michael Thorbjornsen, Stanford
Brendan Valdes, Auburn
Second Team
Austin Greaser, North Carolina
Max Herendeen, Illinois
Michael La Sasso, Ole Miss
Phichaksn Maichon, Texas A&M
Matthew Riedel, Vanderbilt
Jacob Skov Oleson, Arkansas
Cole Sherwood, Vanderbilt
Preston Summerhays, Arizona State
Hiroshi Tai, Georgia Tech
Karl Vilips, Stanford
Third Team
Bastien Amat, New Mexico
David Ford, North Carolina
Maxwell Ford, North Carolina
Santiago de la Fuente, Houston
Johnny Kiefer, Baylor
Frederik Kjettrup, Florida State
Jack Lundin, Missouri
Christiaan Maas, Texas
Jack Turner, Florida
Sampson Zheng, California
Honorable Mention
Jackson Buchanan, Illinois
JM Butler, Auburn
Nathan Franks, South Carolina
Gustav Frimodt, TCU
Ian Gilligan, Florida
Alex Goff, Kentucky
Petr Hruby, Washington
Ryggs Johnston, Arizona State
Bryan Lee, Virginia
Bryce Lewis, Tennessee
Ben Lorenz, Oklahoma
Omar Morales, UCLA
Sebastian Moss, Louisville
Calum Scott, Texas Tech
Herman Wibe Sekne, Purdue
Neal Shipley, Ohio State
Taehoon Song, Washington
Jackson Van…
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