As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the best athletes in Austin Peay men's golf history. The penultimate entry goes to a hometown kid made extremely good.

Being the youngest son of an acclaimed PGA Tour pro and following in his footsteps on the golf course leaves one with large shoes to fill. Yet Craig Rudolph carved out his own legacy on the links, and did so in his hometown of Clarksville, the same town with a golf course bearing his father Mason's name.

After a year at Alabama, Rudolph returned to Clarksville to play for the Govs and embarked on a three-year career that saw him earn three first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference honors and a number of individual victories. Among those were a dominant showing at the 1987 Akron Invitational, where he tied the what was then the amateur record at the fabled Firestone Country Club Course with a six-under 66. That same season, he competed at the NCAA Championships as an individual, was runner-up at the Tennessee State Amateur and competed at the U.S. Amateur, but he saved his best for his senior campaign in 1988.

Rudolph won the 1988 OVC Men's Golf Championship by nine strokes, over teammate Jeff Buder. The Govs won the league crown by a record 47 strokes, a mark that has not been approached since, and the first of back-to-back titles for the program under Paul Powers.

Rudolph turned pro following graduation and played a year on the PGA Tour. He later became a club professional before his untimely passing in a helicopter crash in 1998. He was posthumously inducted into the Austin Peay Athletics Hall of Fame a year later.