Murray State men’s golf sophomore Austin Knight has been named to the All-Ohio Valley Conference Team as announced by the league office at after the first round of the OVC Championship, being played through Wednesday at the Shoals Golf Club in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Knight, a Hopkinsville High graduate, makes the 11-player All-OVC Team a year after he was named to the All-OVC Newcomer Team as a freshman.
Coming into the OVC Championship this week, Knight had played 32 rounds in the 2017-18 season with a scoring average of 73.6. He has scored a pair of wins, at the APSU Intercollegiate (Oct. 17) on rounds of 63-67-70=210 and at the TSU Big Blue Intercollegiate (April 10) with scores of 71-72-69=212. Knight made a hole-in-one in his first trip to the OVC Championship in 2017. It helped him to a 31st place finish on rounds of 80-72-75=227.
Knight fired a first round 72 Monday and stands in eighth place in the OVC medalist race after the first 18 holes.
(Courtesy – Murray State Athletics)