Montreat College golfer Sean McKaig has been awarded the Appalachian Athletic Conference's Men's Golfer of the Week award for the week of March 29, 2010 after tying for low score among all AAC participants in the Montreat College Spring Invitational Golf Tournament on March 15-16. 

Montreat hosted eight other schools at the Glen Cannon Country Club in Brevard, NC, including four rivals from AAC colleges.  Though McKaig did not win the overall competition, he shot a 75-76-151 to finish tied with Dan Merriman and Zach Lindsey, both of Reinhardt College, in the race to be low scorer among the AAC golfers participating. 

McKaig was given the AAC award after a committee including the AAC Men's Golf Chairman voted for him to collect the honor.  Montreat Head Golf Coach David Pennell felt that McKaig deserved the distinction, saying, "Sean had a great tournament.  He is a dedicated worker, both in the classroom and on the golf course."

His tie for fifth place also earned the junior from Columbus, N.C. a place on the All-Tournament team along with USC-Lancaster's Trevor Banks, three golfers from Limestone College, and the duo from Reinhardt.

Limestone captured the team honors and Banks won the individual medalist title with rounds of 69-67-136 on a par 72 layout; his sizzling play left him eight shots clear of the runner-up from Limestone. 

Montreat College's men's golf team welcomed eight other squads to the Glen Cannon Country Club in Brevard, NC for Montreat's 2010 Spring Invitational Golf Tournament, but unfortunately, the Cavaliers played the role of gracious host too well, finishing ninth out of nine teams in the two-day event on March 13-14.  

Limestone College of Gaffney, S.C. captured the team honors by shooting 301-293=594 for the two rounds, winning by a comfortable 13-stroke margin over Reinhardt College.  USC-Lancaster claimed third place.

Montreat College Head Golf Coach David Pennell watched as Sean McKaig played well to keep the Cavs competitive, as the junior from Columbus, N.C. put together tidy rounds of 75-76 to finish at 151, tied for fifth among the 36 golfers who teed it up.  Promising freshman Preston Karup of Arden, N.C. finished second among Pennell's foursome with an 81-76=157 and Jake Peterson, a freshman from Atlanta, was third among Montreat's players.  Senior Kevin Hanlon rounded out the group.  

Trevor Banks of USC-Lancaster won individual honors and played both rounds under par (he produced two of the only three sub-par rounds posted by any player), signing a scorecard that read a handsome 69-67=136 to coast to an 8-shot victory.  

McKaig joined Banks and three golfers from team champion Limestone on the All-Tournament Team.

Montreat College men's golf team entered the Virginia Intermont College Fall Invitational tournament as one of the youngest teams competing and had a second day which fulfilled Head Coach David Pennell's hopes for future team and individual success.

On a weekend when Tennessee Wesleyan captured team honors, winning by two strokes over Milligan College, and Zach Lindsey of Reinhardt College was the individual winner, Montreat's young team distinguished itself as well.

Rodney Sean McKaig, a junior from Columbus, NC, played well both days, shooting a 73-77-150 to earn a top-10 finish as he tied for 7th with three other golfers.  

Then came a parade of freshmen for the Cavaliers as Branden Craven shot a 156, Preston Karup shot 159, and Jake Peterson rounded out the team score a few strokes back.  

Karup, from nearby Arden, NC, had a hot hand on the second day, shooting a tidy 74, which was tied for the third lowest round of the tournament's closing day and merely three strokes behind the low round of the weekend.

The men's team faces a lengthy winter break, but if the results from the matches at the Cattails at Meadowview course in Kingsport are any measure, Pennell can hope for a strong team as his junior leader gains experience and the freshmen corps matures into their considerable talent.