Woodberry Forest Golf: 5/16/10

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Coach Marc Hogan--2010 VPL Coach of the Year

The Virginia Preparatory League announced today that Woodberry Forest golf coach Marc Hogan is the 2010 Golf Coach of the Year. It is the fourth time in his career (2004, 2007, 2009) that Mr. Hogan has won this league award, and the first time he has been named Coach of the Year in consecutive seasons.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Final Scoring averages- 2010

First         Last             Matches    Stroke Avg.

Thomas    Walter             11            38.02

Milt          Barber             10      39.82

Shep      Hardison          10            39.92

Bennett    duPont      9            39.93

Timothy    Walter            7      40.50

Connor    Dobbs               1           40.50

Pete          Heck                1             40.50

James       Walter              3      40.90

Charlie      Moore             10           41.16

Jack         Dalrymple    5            42.66

West   Camp-Crowder        1      43.00

Charles    Blaydes      1            43.61

Tyler      Grills                 2            43.92

Billy    Mott                       1      46.00

David    Lee                      1      54.14

Thomas Walter finishes with a 38.61 stroke average, tying him with Billy King (1995-97) for 24th all-time in Woodberry Forest golf history.

Individual Career Stroke Average
	First	Last	Years	Scoring
1	Ted	Haley	(1993-1995)	36.62
2	Robert	Long	(2000-2002)	36.83
3	Whitten	Meares	(1995-1997)	36.95
4	Johnny	Kyger	(2007-2009)	37.05
5	Zack	Randol	(1999-2001)	37.12
6	Edward	Moseley	(1998-1999)	37.18
7	Brad	Garner	(1996-1998)	37.22
8	Neel	Williams	(1998-2000)	37.36
9	Gene	Williams	(1993-1996)	37.39
10	Jay	McKnight	(1998-2000)	37.68
11	Peter	Wilson	(2003-2006)	37.81
12	Tee	Nunnellee	(1994-1996)	37.93
13	Dean	Norman	(2002-2005)	37.93
14	Robert	Chen	(1999-2001)	37.99
15	David	Carver	(2001-2002)	38.02
16	Will	Strickler	(2002-2004)	38.03
17	Miguel	Coles	(1997-1998)	38.06
18	Chris	Jones	(1991-1993)	38.18
19	Grant	Rafield	(2003-2005)	38.19
20	Jim	Frazier	(2006-2009)	38.32
21	Mac	Kellet	(1996-1998)	38.35
22	Eric	Stinson	(2002-2005)	38.45
23	Jason	Saunders	(2004-2007)	38.53
24	Thomas	Walter	(2008-2010)	38.61
24	Billy	King	(1995-1997)	38.61
26	Ned	Michaels	(1994-1995)	38.65
27	Franklin	Dolan	(2005-2008)	38.67
28	Edward	Wood	(2003-2004)	38.72
29	Chris	Brown	(2000-2002)	38.98
30	Chamberlain	Hill	(2006-2009)	39.06
31	Milt	Barber	(2008-	39.32
32	Tyler	Love	(1998-2000)	39.33
33	Shep	Hardison	(2009-	39.46
	James	Walter	(2008-	43.58

Monday, May 17, 2010

Woodberry Forest finishes 3rd in VISAA state golf tournament

In a driving rain storm in Suffolk, VA, the Tigers battled the elements and seven other teams in the third VISAA State Golf Championships. Sleepy Hole Golf Course hosted the event for the first time. The 6500 yard par 72 layout took on lots of water, but managed to remain playable for the six hour round. Woodberry Forest's score of 314 placed them third, behind state champion Episcopal (309) and runner-up St. Christopher's (310). Two time defending state champion Carlisle finished fourth (316).

Captain Thomas Walter ended his Woodberry Forest career with perhaps his best round, a one over 73, earning All-State honors on the strength of his fourth place finish. Thomas overcame a triple bogey seven on his sixth hole, playing his last 12 holes two under par.

Division 1
*top 4 scores
1st Place – Episcopal High School – 309
2nd Place – Saint Christopher’s School – 310
3rd Place – Woodberry Forest – 314
4th Place –Carlisle School – 316
5th Place – Collegiate School – 320
6th Place – Cape Henry Collegiate – 321
7th Place – Liberty Christian Academy – 327
8th Place – Trinity Episcopal School – 354

All State Team:
Bailey Patrick – Episcopal School – 71 – Co-Player of the Year
Adam Stowe – Episcopal School – 71- Co Player of the Year
Bryce Chalkley – St. Christopher’s School -71- Co Player of the Year
Thomas Walter – Woodberry Forest – 73
Ben Leon – Norfolk Academy – 75
Jack Adkins – Carlisle School – 75
Alex Wise – Carlisle School – 75
Austin Inman – Liberty Christian – 75
Mark Hourigan – Collegiate School – 76
Paul Strader – St. Christopher’s School – 77
Chris Hickman – Blue Ridge - 77

Other Woodberry Scores

Milt Barber - 79
James Walter - 80
Charlie Moore - 82
Bennett duPont - 83
Shep Hardison - 85

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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.