Woodberry Forest Golf: Spring Tryouts--Day 2

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spring Tryouts--Day 2

Nineteen candidates played a second day in the 2010 Varsity golf qualifying tournament (Results in the table below). Everyone shooting 85 or better earned the coveted WFS orange golf bag. Even more importantly, these top 15 finishers earned a waiting exemption for the spring term!

The top six will play Friday at Collegiate. The next eight will play Saturday at Mercersburg.

First	Last	1st	2nd	3rd	Best 18
Shep	Hardison	39	33	37	70
Thomas	Walter	36	41	40	76
Milt	Barber	38	40	40	78
West	Camp-Crowder	50	35	43	78
Tyler	Grills	41	37	47	78
Charlie	Moore	43	39	40	79
Bennett	duPont	45	41	39	80
Charles	Blaydes	42	39	50	81
Jack	Dalrymple	44	41	40	81
Connor	Dobbs	42	40	41	81
David	Lee	42	41	40	81
Starling	Gamble	43	44	40	83
Pete	Heck	43	44	40	83
Timothy	Walter	42		41	83
Brandon	Gilbert	39	48	46	85
Gray	Ellington	45	44	42	86
Spence	Townsend	42		47	89
George	Moore	49	45	48	93
Doug	Brady	51	46	48	94

Golf Facilities

Our golf facilities are unmatched. The only high school in Virginia with its own course, Woodberry plays its home matches on a nine-hole golf course designed in 1926 by Donald Ross. We also have the Graves Golf Practice Area, built in 1991, which has a driving range, two practice greens and sand bunkers. With our Doppler-based TrackMan launch monitors, we can track each player’s clubhead speed, ball speed, launch angle, and carry distance. We can then use this data to test different equipment. Our indoor putting green allows us to practice putting and short-game skills in any weather.

Coach’s Corner: Varsity Golf Coach Marc Hogan

Of the campus’s many resources, the school’s golf facilities truly set it apart. With a nine-hole Donald Ross-designed golf course and a range of other amenities for the teaching of golf, Woodberry is poised to nurture the young golfer. And no one is more suited to bring together the promising golfers who choose Woodberry Forest with traditional techniques honed at the Graves Practice Area and modern-day technological tools installed in the Squash Pavilion than Marc Hogan.

Having worked with the golf program for over twenty years, Marc holds a Level III golf teaching certification from the United States Golf Teachers' Federation and a Level I golf fitness instructor certification from the Titleist Performance Institute. He was the first coach certified in the DECADE course management system, which teaches players course strategy. His contributions to the game have been honored by the Virginia Prep League, which has named him Coach of the Year nine times, and by VISAA, which has awarded him the title six times.

As he does in his English classroom, Marc embraces technology in the teaching of golf. With particular support from Mitch Hull ’77 and past parents Hallie and Ed Pettegrew, as well as an anonymous gift, the school has video-recording devices, computers, and three launch monitors that analyze a player’s stroke and help him match it to swings used by the world’s most successful golfers.

Marc is a Greensboro, North Carolina, native and earned his BA and MA from the University of Virginia. He has taught English at Woodberry Forest since 1987. A scratch golfer, Marc has qualified for the Virginia Senior Amateur Championship six times and made match play four times in 2017, 2019 (round of 16), 2020, and 2021. He has also qualified for the VSGA Amateur Championship in 2021 and 2022. He lives in the Rapp House with his wife Linda, who works in Culpeper. They have three daughters, Miranda, who lives and works in Staunton; Anna Grey ’14, who lives and works in Charlottesville; and Cordelia '17, who lives and works in Charlotte.