Woodberry Forest Golf: Seniors play final home match

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Seniors play final home match

Three seniors are playing in their final home match on May 13, 2016.

Bo Pettegrew is a three-year letter winner. This season Bo's scoring average is 37.80, including an even par 35 in our previous home match vs. STAB.

Teddy Garner is a three-year letter winner and three-time All-Prep golfer. Teddy earned All-State honors twice, and in 2014 won the Sam A. Dougherty Award as the most distinguished upper classman. This season Teddy has a scoring average of 37.90, including a one under par 34 in our previous home match vs. STAB.

Peter Knade is a three-year letter winner and three-time All-Prep golfer. Peter has earned All-State honors twice. As a third former, Peter won the Thomas D. Bond MVP Award, and the last two years, he has won the William H. White Golf Prize, awarded to the player with the lowest scoring average. As the team's captain, Peter again is leading the team in scoring average (36.64). Peter currently has the 10th best career scoring average (37.55).

The best viewing spots will be on the Wall Room patio (holes 1 & 3), at Coach Dawson's house by the cart barns (holes 4-5), and on the tee box adjacent to the Keatings' (holes 8-9). You are also welcome to walk with the groups. Please be quiet when the players are hitting shots and cheer for our team.

Come out tomorrow to see these seniors and their teammates (Basil Boyd, Lamar Mallory, and Andrew Jacobs) battle the #1 team in the state.

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.