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2016-17: Appeared in eight tournaments, playing 22 rounds, before season was cut short by injury ... Recorded a 73.50 stroke average that ranked second on the team ... Was among the top 20 in the Sun Belt Conference in both scoring average and score vs. par ... Posted three top-20 results, with two of those finishes among the top 10 ... Shot par or better in seven rounds ... Finished with a 1-under-par 215 total at both of the Jaguars home events, tying for 10th at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational to close out the fall, then opening the spring campaign by tying for 11th in a field of 75 at the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate ... The latter performance included a season-best-tying 3-under-par 69 in the opening round, equalling his score on the final day of The Invitational at The Ocean Course in his Jag debut ... Placed 10th in stroke play at the Bridgestone Match Play after shooting a 36-hole 147 total, going on to earn a point the next day with a 3 & 1 victory over Jacksonville’s Ryan Jahn in USA’s semifinal match ... Carded scores of 2-under-par 70 and 72 in the first two rounds of Auburn’s Tiger Invitational ... Fired a team-best even-par 70 over the last 18 holes at the Jerry Pate National Collegiate Invitational, matching that score — shooting 2-under par — to begin play at Louisiana State’s David Toms Intercollegiate.

Amateur Highlights: In two seasons at the junior-college level won four tournaments and finished among the top 10 individually 18 times ... Earned second-team PING All-America honors as a sophomore with an eighth-place finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association national championship ... Posted a 6-under-par 282 four-round total at the tournament, shooting par or better each day highlighted by a 3-under-par 69 over the last 18 holes ... Tied for ninth at the district championship with a 221 score that included a 1-under-par 71 — matching the low total of the day — in the second round ... Won the Alabama Community College Conference/Region 22 Tournament by five strokes after carding a 218 total ... Helped the Lions claim the Glen Lakes Invitational after tying for fifth in the individual standings with an even-par 216 score ... Repeated as medalist at the Wallace State Fall Invitational, firing a 9-under-par 63 in the opening round en route to a 206 total ... Also carded 54-hole 216 scores at the NJCAA District 4 and NJCAA Fall National Previews — finishing eighth at the first tournament — before closing with a second-place performance at the Central Alabama CC Willow Point Invitational with an even-par 144 total that included the low round of the tournament, a 4-under-par 68, on the second day ... As a freshman was a second-team NJCAA All-American in the spring after finishing 10th at the national championship, and he helped WSCC qualify for the tournament after winning the individual title — picking up first-team all-ACCC/Region 22 honors — while also making the final putt on the first playoff hole to help the team claim the ACCC/Region 22 event ... Was a six-year letterwinner at Cullman (Ala.) High, helping the Bearcats advance to the state tournament five times ... Concluded his prep career with five individual wins — which included a school record four in one season — and four runner-up finishes.

Personal: Full name is Sylas Reed Elliott ... Born Nov. 14, 1995, in Birmingham, Ala. ... Son of Mike and Karla Pitts ... Favorite movie is “Jurassic World” ... Favorite book is “Seven Days in Utopia” ... Favorite athletes are Jordan Spieth and Cam Newton ... Likes rap music ... Favorite foods are chicken and seafood ... Favorite subjects are history and science ... Likes to fish in his free time ... An interdisciplinary studies major.