Roger Gatto “Big Roge” is in his third season as the “DoG” of the Georgia Southern women's and men’s golf programs.
Year one saw the Lady Eagles win their first Sun Belt Championship, and Georgia Southern finished seventh at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional in its first NCAA Championship appearance. The Eagles posted two team wins and three runner-up finishes.
The men’s golf Eagles won three tournaments in 2021-22, including stroke play at the Sun Belt Championship, and finished fifth at the New Haven Regional to earn a trip to the NCAA Finals. Mason Williams advanced to the final round of stroke play at the NCAA Finals and finished tied for 20th.
The women’s team won three events in year two, while the men’s program won four team stroke play tournament titles.
Big Roge and his parents, Coach Mimi Burke and her husband C.J. Gatto, a former collegiate golfer at UNLV, reside in Statesboro.
Personal: Knows sit, lay down, roll over, and “bang bang.” Likes to take dips in the Bennett-Ramsey pond, chasing wildlife, and getting fed fast food from Lindsay and Luke on the men’s team.
Born: Masters week on some dirt roads in Georgia and adopted shortly after.
