Woodberry Forest Golf: 5/5/19

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Prep League Champs

Woodberry Forest wins the 45th VPL golf championship today at Old Trail GC in Crozet, 307-310 over Trinity Episcopal.

Benny Haggin was co-medalist with an even-par round of 72. Hughes Edwards shot his best round of the season, a one over 73. Both earn All-Prep Honors with their scores. Jack Stein shot 80 and Matthew Durham 81 to round out the scoring. Also playing were Luke McNabb and Turner Edwards, both with 84s.

The title is Woodberry's 31st in league history, more than all other schools combined.

Team Scores

Woodberry Forest - 307

Trinity Episcopal - 310

Collegiate - 316

St. Christopher's - 320

Norfolk Academy - 328

STAB - 348

All Prep

BENNY HAGGIN (WFS), Ben Cooper (StC) - 72, co-medalist
HUGHES EDWARDS (WFS) - 73
Garrett Kuhla (TES) -75
Gabe Parker (TES), Caroline Curtis (COL), Ben Fallica (STAB) -76
Braden Moelchert (COL) - 78
Jack Limroth (NA), Mac Moore (NA), Griffin Winn (TES) - 79

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.