Woodberry Forest Golf: Varsity Golf wins 6th consecutive VPL title; Basil Boyd is Prep League Champion

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Varsity Golf wins 6th consecutive VPL title; Basil Boyd is Prep League Champion

The Tigers

fired

a blistering 295 to edge St. Christopher's by three

shots

to win their sixth consecutive Prep League golf title

today at The Federal Club in Glen Allen, VA

Woodberry was eight over as a team through eight holes, but finished -1 par to beat the Saints.

Senior Basil Boyd was the medalist with a two-under par 70

, becoming Woodberry's 21st Prep League champion. Basil earned All-Prep honors for the third time, and was joined by classmate Lamar Mallory (74), and fifth formers Andrew Jacobs (74) and Woodson Smith (77), who all earned All-Prep.

In addition to winning the last six consecutive Prep League golf titles, Woodberry now has won 30 of the 42 championships. With this victory, Coach Marc Hogan has 11 VPL titles, one short of former WFS coach Tom Bond.

42nd VPL Golf Championship

The Federal Club

par 72 6500 yards

Woodberry Forest 295

St. Christopher's 298

Collegiate 310

Norfolk Academy 319

STAB 333

Trinity 357

CCS NS

All Prep (top 10 and ties)

Basil Boyd, Woodberry 70* VPL champion

Drew Brockwell, St. Chris 71

Clifford Foster, St. Chris 72

Lamar Mallory, Woodberry 74

Andrew Jacobs, Woodberry 74

Caroline Curtis, Collegiate 75

Perrin Frazer, NA 75

Woodson Smith, Woodberry 77

Jack Montague, Collegiate 77

H. Milligan, Collegiate 77

Ben Cooper, St. Chris 77

Will Clark, NA 77

Other Woodberry Scores

Luke McNabb 78

Jack Stein 85

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.