Moon Township, Pa.-Once again, recent Robert Morris University graduate C.G. Mercatoris (Brookville, Pa. / Brookville) has done something no Colonial golfer has done before. This time, he was named a co-recipient of the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association's Frank Fuhrer, III, Award for the area's outstanding collegiate golfer in 2010-11. He shared the award with Fox Chapel's Adam Hoffman who plays his collegiate golf at Vanderbilt University.
Mercatoris was also the first RMU player to be named the Northeast Conference Player of the Year and the first to play in the NCAA Tournament. He finished 31st at the NCAA Colorado Regional.
In the previous 20 seasons of men's golf, Robert Morris golfers accounted for six individual tournament titles. Mercatoris won four tournaments this season alone, including a two-stroke victory at the NEC Men's Golf Championships. Now a three-time All-NEC selection, Mercatoris had the best stroke average of any NEC golfer at 72.90.
The senior entered 10 tournaments this season, winning half of those and finishing in the top ten of all but two events. He set records for 36 and 54 hole totals relative to par. He fired a three-under at the two-round RMU Holiday Inn Colonial Classic event. Six months later, he was four-under after three rounds at the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational. Mercatoris won both of those events.
