Woodberry Forest Golf: 6/26/16

Monday, June 27, 2016

2016 season wrap up

The varsity golf team had another great season that saw the Tigers earn both the Prep League and State championships.

A few notes on the 2016 team:

6-3 dual match record
VPL Champions (29 titles; 5^th consecutive, 7 of the last 8)
VISAA Champions (3 titles; 3 of the last 4)
Defeated Episcopal High School (4^th consecutive; 18 of last 19)

Individual Honors

Thomas D. Bond Most Valuable Award in Golf -- Andrew Jacobs '18

Sam A. Dougherty Memorial Golf Prize -- Basil Boyd '17

William H. White Golf Trophy -- Peter Knade '16 (third year in a row; third time this has been accomplished)

· All Prep: Peter Knade (4); Basil Boyd (2); Andrew Jacobs

· All State: Peter Knade (3); Basil Boyd (3); Andrew Jacobs

VISAA Coach of the Year: Marc Hogan

Course records: Peter Knade, 9-hole, 28 (-7); Peter Knade, 18-hole, 62 (-8)

Historical Notes

· Team Scoring Average (top 6): 37.43 second all time

· Peter Knade finishes with lowest season scoring average (35.61) breaking Ted Haley ’95 (35.68)

· Peter Knade finishes with career scoring average 37.26, 8^th all time

· Peter Knade wins the William H. White Golf Trophy for the third time, joining Ted Haley ’95 and Johnny Kyger ’09 as the only three-time winners

· Peter Knade is second WFS golfer to earn All Prep for four years (Harley Garrison, 1984-87)

· Peter Knade and Basil Boyd are the only two WFS golfers to earn three All-State honors

· Woodson Smith 37.85 is 14^th in career scoring average

· Andrew Jacobs career scoring average 38.05 is 18^th all time

· Lamar Mallory career scoring average 38.76 is 33^rd all time

· Basil Boyd career scoring average 39.08 is 36^th all time

· Teddy Garner finishes with career scoring average 39.20, 38^th all time

· Teddy Garner is one of 15 WFS golfers to earn All Prep three times

· 6^th consecutive year with three All-Prep golfers

· 5^th consecutive year with at least two All-State golfers

Individual Season Stroke Average

	First	Last	Year	Scoring
1	Peter	Knade	2016	35.61
2	Ted	Haley	1994	35.68
3	Johnny	Kyger	2009	36.35
4	Neel	Williams	1999	36.36
5	Dean	Norman	2005	36.39
6	Whitten	Meares	1996	36.43
7	David	Carver	2002	36.46
8	Robert	Long	2002	36.53
9	Zack	Randol	2000	36.58
t10	Whitten	Meares	1997	36.59
t10	Chris	Brown	2002	36.59

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	Peter	Knade	(2013-2016)	37.26
9	Tee	Nunnellee	(1994-1996)	37.35
10	Neel	Williams	(1998-2000)	37.36

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.