Woodberry Forest Golf

Friday, May 31, 2013

Coach Marc Hogan and Timothy Walter '13 to represent US golf in UK

Timothy Walter '13 has been selected for 2013 Blair-Wellington Golf Tour. He will be part of an eight-player American team that will travel across the UK in June for 16 days of golf against British school teams such as Wellington, Eton, Radley, and Whitgift. Timothy is the fourth Woodberry golfer to represent the US, joining Tee Nunnelee '96, David Carver '02, and older brother Thomas Walter '10.

Coach Marc Hogan will be one of two chaperones on the trip.

Since 1971 over 70 schools and 200 golfers have participated in the biennial UK tour. The British team -- known as The Swifts -- travels to the US every other year, and has been coming to Woodberry Forest since 1973.
More information on the tour is located here: Blair Academy Blair-Wellington Golf Exchange

Monday, May 27, 2013

Golfers win year-end awards

Peter Knade '16 won varsity golf's Thomas D. Bond Most Valuable Player award
at the Underformer Awards Assembly on May 20, 2013.

The Sam A. Dougherty Golf Prize and the William H. White Golf Trophy
went to Timothy Walter '13 on Amici Night, May 24, 2013.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Varsity Golf wins the VISAA State Championship Golf Match

WFS-298
Collegiate - 304
Paul VI - 305
St. Chris - 309
EHS - 315
STAB - 316
Cape Henry Collegiate - 320
Norfolk Academy - 340

All state honors- Timothy Walter, Peter Knade, Teddy Garner, Rob Prater

State Coach of the Year - Marc Hogan

Individual Scores

Rob Prater 73
Timothy Walter 75
Peter Knade 75
Teddy Garner 75
William Knibbs 78
Richard Hunt 87

Thursday, May 16, 2013

JV Golf loses final match

JV Golf hosted St. Christopher's on Tuesday. The full squad participated in two groups. The JV A group tied the Saints 181-181, but lost on the fifth card.

JV A Golf 181
St. Chris 181
JV B Golf 193

Woodberry Scores

JV A
Trip Smith 43
CJ Dunne 43
Win Sompayrac 45
Coleman Bergsma 47
Michael Davis 58
Jack Ogburn 58

JV B
Robert Edwards 47
Gray Robertson 48
Mack McMillan 49
Thompson Brock 50
Nolan Day 51
Lisle Elliman 52

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

WFS-B varsity defeats Highland

In the final home golf match, the WFS-B varsity defeated Highland School.

WFS-B - 168
Highland - 170
WFS-C - 181

WFS-B
R. Hunt - 38
H. Swearingen - 43
B. Mott - 43
J. Duffy - 44
T. Mack-46
S. Townsend - 47

WFS-C
T. Lindsay - 45
W. Legg - 45
B. Sheridan - 45
T. Johnson - 46
A. Gussler - 49

Highland
37, 44, 44, 45, 46, 51

Varsity golf wins 2013 Prep League title

The Tigers successfully defended their Prep League title Tuesday. Their two-day total of 612 was twenty-two shots better than second place Collegiate.

Senior Timothy Walter (75-75) finished third, and fellow senior William Knibbs (72-80) finished fifth. Both earned All-Prep designation. Two other Woodberry Forest golfers finished in the top ten: third formers Teddy Garner (79-76, 7th) and Peter Knade (76-80, 8th), also winning All-Prep honors.

Since joining the Prep League in 1974, Woodberry Forest has won 26 golf titles, including four of the last five seasons (2009-10, 2012-13).

2013 Virginia Prep League Golf Championship
Independence Golf Course
36 holes, par 72
Low four scores count towards team total

Team Scores

1. Woodberry Forest 301-311 612
2. Collegiate 315-319 634
3. St. Anne's Belfield 317-318 635
4. St. Christopher's 316-321 637
5. Trinity* 341
6. Christchurch* 411
* did not qualify for second day

Individual scores

1. Austin Fockler, St. Chris 70-77 --147
2. Alex Thompson, Collegiate 72-77 --149
t3. TIMOTHY WALTER, WFS 75-75 --150
t3. Fitz Woodrow, STAB 76-74 --150
t5. WILLIAM KNIBBS, WFS 72-80 --152
t5. Ian Buchanan, STAB 74-78 --152
7. TEDDY GARNER, WFS 79-76 --155
8. PETER KNADE, WFS 76-80 --156
9. Johno Burke, Trinity 78-79 --157
10. Trey Romig, St.Chris 80-78 --158

Other Woodberry Forest scores

Rob Prater 78-82 --160
Bo Pettegrew 86-82 --168

Final VISAA poll

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.