Woodberry Forest Golf: 4/25/10

Friday, April 30, 2010

Benedictine matches canceled

A problem with tee times at Richmond Country Club Tuesday forced Benedictine to cancel the matches with the Woodberry Jr. Black and JV teams. These matches will unfortunately not be made up.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Woodberry Forest has a first--three brothers playing on the same golf team. Senior Thomas Walter is the squad's captain and currently its #1 player (39.14 stroke average). Junior James Walter has just returned to playing after suffering a broken foot during Spring Break. To keep active during his rehab, James has been a contributor on this blog. Third former Timothy Walter has played in two varsity and six Junior Black matches. Timothy has also contributed photographs to the blog.

Congratulations to the Walter brothers and their parents!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Woodberry slips to 4th in latest state golf poll

VISAA
Golf Rankings
Week #4

Division 1
1. Cape Henry Collegiate (8-1)
1. St. Christopher’s (8-1)
3. Carlisle School (8-0)
4. Woodberry Forrest (9-3)
5. Liberty Christian (4-0)
6. Blue Ridge School (10-5)
7. Collegiate School (6-4)
8. Episcopal High School (2-0)
Others Receiving Votes: Trinity Episcopal (7-6), STAB (2-2), Hargrave (4-4), Nansemond Suffolk (5-7)

Division 2
1. Covenant School (12-1)
2. Walsingham Academy (11-1)
3. Hampton Roads Academy (7-1)
4. Atlantic Shores (18-6)
5. Fuqua (8-0)
6. Greenbrier (5-1)
7. Virginia Episcopal (8-4)
8. North Cross (6-1)
Others Receiving Votes: Brunswick (7-2), Westover Christian (4-2), Highland School (4-2)

Monday, April 26, 2010

Thomas Walter named to US traveling team

Senior captain Thomas Walter has been selected for the 2010 Blair-Wellington golf exchange. Thomas will join seven other American prep school golfers on the three-week tour of the UK, June 19 through July 10. The squad will play matches against other British prep schools and junior club teams. In the past the tour has taken US juniors to British Open sites Royal St. George's G.C., Sunningdale G.C., as well as historic courses like Rye G.C. Congratulations Thomas!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

JV golf continues rolling

The JV golfers traveled to Richmond to play Collegiate at the CCV-Tuckahoe Creek course. The Tigers won easily 159-178, improving their record to 8-0. Fourth former Tyler Grills was medalist with a one over par round of 37.

Woodberry Forest (8-0) 159
Collegiate 178

Woodberry Individual
Tyler Grills 37
Charles Blaydes 39
West Camp-Crowder 40
Spence Townsend 43
Gregory McIntosh 47
Richard Hunt 47

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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.