2014-15 Men's Golf Roster

Davin White

  • Height 5-8
  • Weight 189
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Griffin, Ga.
  • High School Spalding

Biography

Athletic Honors
• 2015 All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention
• 2014 All-Sun Belt First-Team
• 2013 All-Sun Belt Second-Team
• 2012 CAA Rookie of the Year
• 2012 CAA All-Tournament Team
• Rounds of Par or Better: 51 (3rd in school history)
• Career Scoring Average: 73.74 (12th in school history)
• Career Rounds: 129; Tournaments: 45; Scoring Avg.: 73.74

Academic Honors
• Currently majoring in sociology

2014-15
Earned All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention recognition after making 12 appearances and earning three top 25 finishes, including a top 10 . . . Finished fourth at the Furman Intercollegiate, shooting 72-68-71 to help team to second-straight title at the event . . . Tied for 19th at the Tiger Invitational presented by Jason Dufner shooting 75-71-72 . . . Tied for 19th at the Southern Intercollegiate shooting 73-75 at GSU finished second . . . Shot a career-low 66 in the second round of the GSU-hosted AutoTrader.com Collegiate Classic . . . Tied for 27th at the UNCG Bridgestone Collegiate, opening with rounds of 71 and 73. Finished season with a 73.73 scoring average, fourth on the team.

2013-14
Earned All-Sun Belt First Team honors . . . In 13 events, compiled a 72.84 scoring average, first on the team and tied for the 13th lowest in program history, earning two top-5 finishes and seven top-10 finishes . . . Finished season ranked No. 149 in the country by Golfweek . . . Opened the NCAA Championship with a 1-under 69 and pushed his score to 6-under with one hole to play at the NCAA Championship, sharing the lead with Stanford’s Cameron Wilson, ranked No. 2 in the country, before a double bogey on his final hole. Still shot a second-round 67 and finished with a 76 to tie for 42nd . . . Tied for eighth at the NCAA San Antonio Regional, shooting 73-73-69. The result was the fifth-best finish by an individual in NCAA Regional play in program history . . . Tied for 14th at the Sun Belt Conference Championship, shooting a final-round 71 . . . Entered the postseason coming off of a third and tie for fifth with six-straight rounds of par or better, helping GSU to wins in both of those events . . . Finished third at the Furman Intercollegiate, shooting 72-68-71 . . . Tied for fifth at the Irish Creek Intercollegiate, shooting 71-70-70 . . . Shot a career-low 67 in the second-round of the Schenkel Invitational.

2012-13
Earned All-Sun Belt Second Team honors after finishing the regular season with the ninth lowest scoring average in the league . . . Played in 11 tournaments, earning eight top-25 finishes, including a pair of top-10 finishes to end the year . . . Tied for ninth at the Sun Belt Conference Championship, shooting 73-74-74 to help GSU to a runner-up finish . . . Placed seventh at the Jaguar Shootout to finish the season, shooting a second-round 71 . . . Finished t11th at the GSU-hosted AutoTrader.com Collegiate Classic, helping the Panthers to a second-place finish . . . Placed for 15th at the Cleveland Golf/Palmetto Intercollegiate, opening with a pair of 72s . . . Tied for 18th at the Furman Intercollegiate, finishing with rounds of 71 and 72 . . . Earned a tied for 22nd at the Brickyard Collegiate, shooting 72-70 over the final two rounds . . . Finished the regular season with a 73.94 scoring average, second lowest on the team and with an impressive 584-233-29 record.

2011-12
Named the CAA Rookie of the Year after a career-best second-place finish at the CAA Championship . . . Tied a career-low with a 69 in the final round of the CAA Championship, finishing 5-over for the tournament, just one stroke off the lead which earned him CAA All-Tournament honors . . . Finished the season shooting 72 or better in five of last six rounds . . . Shot rounds of 72-71-71 to lead the Panthers at the Insperity/Augusta State Invitational . . . Tied for 44th at the Furman Intercollegiate that including a second-round 69, a career-low . . . Finished the season with a 75.13 scoring average, fourth best on the team.

Amateur
Earned a fourth-place finish at the 2014 Greystone Invitational, shooting 71-73-72-68 . . . Finished seventh at the 2014 Dogwood Invitational following rounds of 68-65-68-72 . . . Earned a t12th at the 2014 Southern Am . . . Finished tied for 25th at the prestigious Sunnehanna Amateur in 2014, shooting 69-74-73-68 . . . Finished tied for sixth at the 2013 Jones Cup . . . Finished in a tie for fourth at the prestigious 2013 Dogwood Invitational, shooting 64-70-68-71 to finish 15-under . . . Tied for 26th at the 2013 Players Am, which include a field of the nation’s best amateur golfers . . . Shot a final-round 69 to tie for 17th at the 2013 Southeastern Amateur . . . Shot a first-round 65 and tied for 26th at the 2013 Palmetto Amateur . . . Tied for 14th at the 2011 Greystone Invitational, one of the top amateur tournaments in the southeast . . . Played in the 35th annual GA/SC Junior Challenge Match at Atlanta Country Club.

Prep
An all-state golfer in during his junior and senior year, played at Spalding High School for coach Rusty Hudson . . . Led Spalding to the region championship in 2008, 2010 and 2011 . . . Two-time winner of the North Georgia Classic, hosted by Roswell High School and won the 2010 West Georgia Invitational hosted by LaGrange High . . . Two-sport star who also played basketball, earning first team all-region honors as a junior and senior.

Personal
Davin Jamil White is one of three children to Galia and Warren White . . . Born in Newport, Tenn. on April 17, 1993 . . . Has two younger siblings, Devin and Stormi.

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12Freshman

    5'9" 170 lbs
  • 2012-13Sophomore

    5'8" 180 lbs
  • 2013-14Junior

    5'8" 189 lbs
  • 2014-15Senior

    5'8" 189 lbs