Woodberry Forest Golf

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Irrigation project will benefit golf course

Crews are on campus burying pipes to bring water from Robertson Lake to Woodberry Forest's nine-hole golf course, varsity baseball's Murrell Field, Finch Track, and soccer fields Palamar Field and Hazel 1. This will be the first time the golf course's fairways will have irrigation, thereby improving the course's playability and appearance.

The lake, which was built through the generosity of Russ Robertson to honor her husband, A. Stuart Robertson ’35, was dedicated in 2011 and provides recreational opportunities such as boating, fishing, and hunting. Once complete, the new irrigation project will supply a sustainable source of water to Woodberry's athletic facilities using a high-efficiency, computer-controlled sprinkler system and weather station. The water pumped from Robertson Lake will also be available for emergency fire suppression.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Final results from VSGA Foundation HS Invitational

See the results on the VSGA website.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Tigers enter final day of VSGA HS Golf Invitational in 12th place

Monday, August 12, 2013

Peter Knade '16 helps Maryland team take Capital Cup Championship

Peter Knade of Easton, Maryland, qualified for the MAPGA Capital Cup as one of ten players to represent his state in a Ryder Cup-style tournament against the top ten qualifiers from Virginia. Here is the Maryland team, showing Peter on the far left.

See the results on the MAPGA website.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Blair-Wellington Golf Exchange photos posted

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Click here for the Blair-Wellington Golf Exchange Photo Site

Monday, July 15, 2013

Bo Pettegrew '16 makes the cut in summer junior tournaments

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Alum partners with Phil Mickelson at Wells Fargo pro-am tournament

Johnny Belk ’77 was paired with pro golfer Phil Mickelson at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. The May pro-am event was organized by John Harris ’65. Shown here are Johnny Belk, Phil Mickelson, Kim Belk, and Woodberry parent Tracy Hallett.

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.