Woodberry Forest Golf: 5/21/17

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Results from 10th Annual VISAA Golf Championship

The Tigers finished third yesterday in the state golf championship. Congratulations to fifth fomer Andrew Jacobs who earned All State honors with a three over par 73.

10th Annual VISAA Golf Championship

Meadowbrook CC

18 holes, par 70

Division I results

Team Scores
1	St. Christopher’s	292
2	Collegiate School	297
t-3	Woodberry Forest	304
t-3	Norfolk Academy	304
5	STAB	308
6	Trinity Episcopal	319
7	Cape Henry Collegiate	322
8	Bishop O’Connell	328

All State
Collegiate School	Caroline Curtis	69
Collegiate School	Jack Montague	69
STAB	Ben Fallica	72
STAB	Sam McNamara	72
Norfolk Academy	Will Clark	72
St. Christopher’s	Connor Johnson	72
Woodberry Forest	Andrew Jacobs	73
St. Christopher’s	Drew Brockwell	73
St. Christopher’s	Clifford Foster	73
Bishop O’Connell	Jeremy Barto	73

Woodberry scores

Andrew Jacobs 73

Woodson Smith 76

Basil Boyd 77

Luke McNabb 78

Lamar Mallory 78

Jack Stein 80

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Different Every Day: W Club Members Enjoy Whole Campus

The W in W Club stands for “Woodberry,” but it might just as well stand for “What,” as in “What should we do?”

That’s the question a group of nine students asked one another at their weekly planning sessions this spring. At the beginning of the trimester, they created a new afternoon activity that let them take advantage of the school’s campus offerings, whether they were out in nature or at an athletic facility. “We wanted to use Woodberry to the fullest,” said Hayes Johnson ’17.

A typical week might look like this: Monday: beach volleyball and swimming; Tuesday, fishing in Robertson Lake; Wednesday, plant vegetables in the school garden; Thursday, hike along the Rapidan River; Friday, ultimate.

“The best part of W Club was changing activities every day,” said Griffin McDaniel ’17. “It never got boring.” Sometimes they were on their own under the guidance of a rotating captain. Other times they recruited varsity coaches to be their opponents, like basketball’s Craig Dawson and Keith Johnson or Squash’s Paul Erb.

“I was surprised at how good some of the teachers are,” said Hayes. “Dr. Erb smoked me!”

The group also organized a service project. A charity golf tournament brought together students with members of the Woodberry Forest Golf Club and faculty and staff; entry fees supported a local organization that helps struggling families.

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.