VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition
57 Johnson Wagner (above) and Brendon de Jonge (page 58) were named All-Americans in 2002; de Jonge repeated in 2003. straight Virginia State Intercollegiate championships in 1965, 1966 and 1967. Between 1960 and 1995, Tech won this prestigious event 17 times. McClary was inducted into the Tech Hall of Fame in 1994 and Connie Sellers, the co- captain of the 1951 team and winner of the Virginia State Amateur that same year, was inducted in 1996. Current associate head coach Brian Sharp, the only Tech golfer to be both a four-time all-conference selection and a four-time first-team all-state honoree, was inducted in 2009. All-American and three-time PGA Tour winner, Johnson Wagner, was inducted in 2013. Fellow All-American Brendon de Jonge, a member of the 2013 President’s Cup International Team and Wagner’s former teammate at Virginia Tech, was inducted in 2014. An outstanding individual accomplishment for a Virginia Tech golfer came in the summer of 2007, when Drew Weaver won the British Amateur. By virtue of winning this historic championship, he competed in the 2007 British Open and Virginia Tech won a nation’s-best six tournaments in 2000-2001 and finished eighth in the NCAA Championship.
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