Vajda Named PBC Men's Golfer of the Week For Second Consecutive Week
DAHLONEGA -- For the second consecutive week, No. 2 University of North Georgia men's golf graduate student Jack Vajda has been named the Peach Belt Conference Men's Golfer of the Week as announced by the league office Monday afternoon. Vajda becomes the first player in UNG history to win the award in back-to-back weeks. He's also the first PBC golfer to do so since Leo Johansson of USC Aiken did it in October of 2021.
Vajda continued to make history with another outstanding performance last week in the GSW Hurricane Invitational. His 10-under-par finish earned him individual medalist honors for the second consecutive week.
His performance helped the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) No. 2 ranked Nighthawks win the GSW Invitational for the third time in four years.
In the last eight stroke-play tournaments, Vajda has won five of them and finished top 10 in another. He has not finished worse than 22nd in any of them. No player in UNG men's golf history has won more tournaments than Vajda. From his first win as a Nighthawk back in March, it took him just 182 days to accomplish that feat.
In the 2024 fall season alone, Vajda has a .666 individual winning percentage. He's averaging 69.44 strokes per outing in nine rounds this fall and he's recorded a round in the 60s six different times.
The Nighthawks have now nabbed the first three PBC Men's Golf weekly honors of the 2024-25 campaign as Vajda's back-to-back performance follows senior teammate Ethan Day who also won the award back on Sep. 16.
In the last four years, only UNG has recorded an instance of three straight weekly honors from the PBC. The Nighthawks last did it with three different players (Will Chambless, Hughes Threlkeld, Evan Thompson) from Mar. 16 to Mar. 30 in 2023. The only other schools in PBC history to earn the award in three straight instances are Georgia Southwestern and former member UNC Pembroke. The Hurricanes did it back in 2020 while the Braves' occurrence came all the way back in 2012. This is the first time in PBC history a school has won three consecutive Men's Golfer of the Week Awards on two separate occasions.
Vajda is now the 17th PBC Golfer of the Week in UNG men's golf history. He's the 15th golfer to win the award since head coach Bryson Worley took over the program in 2018.
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