Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 4:15 p.m.
The Golf Coaches Association of America named UNLV men’s golfer Seung-Su Han to the PING All-Pacific Region team for 2007-08.
Han, a junior from Incheon, South Korea, also was honored as an All-Pacific Region recipient last year.
He turned in the best scoring average in the Mountain West Conference this season at 71.33 per round. Han also led the Rebels with 17 rounds at par or better and was tops on the team in rounds under par with 14. He recorded two top-five finishes, with his best coming at the Shoot-Out at Angel Park, where he finished second.
Han also was named to the All-MWC team this season for the third consecutive year.
Each of the nine PING All-Region teams consists of the top 15 individual golfers in their respective region in the Individual Ranking System. Additionally, any player ranked in the top 75 nationally according to the Golfstat or the Sagarin rankings not included in their region's top 15 were added to their all-region team.
Members of the all-region teams are automatically eligible for PING All-America honors.
The complete 2007-08 PING All-Pacific Region team: James Allenby, Oregon State; Joey Benedetti, Oregon; Kevin Chappell, UCLA; John Chin, UC Irvine; Erik Flores, UCLA; Philip Francis, UCLA; Matthew Giles, Southern California; Tom Glissmeyer, Southern California; Rob Grube, Stanford; Seung-Su Han, UNLV; Rory Hie, Southern California; Jesper Kennegard, Arizona State; Sihwan Kim, Stanford; Lucas Lee, UCLA; Jamie Lovemark, Southern California; Michael McRae, St. Mary’s; Andrew Putnam, Pepperdine; Nick Taylor, Washington.
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