Woodberry Forest Golf: Tigers win Woodberry Forest Fall Invitational

Friday, September 19, 2014

Tigers win Woodberry Forest Fall Invitational

For the 14th time in 16 years, Woodberry Forest claimed first place in its own Fall Invitational. Led by fifth form exchange student Guy Waterhouse (71), the Tigers easily bettered second place Monticello HS, 302-322. Co-captain Peter Knade (73) and Basil Boyd (76) also earned All-Tournament honors, along with Scott Gullquist (81), who led Woodberry's B team to a third place finish (330).

Team scores

Woodberry Forest A 302

Monticello 322

Woodberry Forest B 330

Orange County 350

St. Anne's-Belfield 356

Western Albemarle 365

All-Tournament (top 10)

Guy Waterhouse, WFS A 71--medalist

Peter Knade, WFS A 73

Basil Boyd, WFS A 76

Fitz Woodrow, STAB 77

Robert Deane, Mont. 78

Danny Larrabee, Mont. 79

Isaiah Boucher, OC 79

Jake Thompson, WA 80

Ryan Pace, Mont. 80

Scott Gullquist, WFS B 81

WFS A scores

Guy Waterhouse 71

Peter Knade 73

Basil Boyd 76

Bo Pettegrew 82

Mac Boney 83

Noel Turlington 86

WFS B scores

Scott Gullquist 81

Lamar Mallory 82

Andrew Jacobs 83

Philip McManamy 84

Coleman Bergsma 91

Trip Smith 93

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.