On Saturday, April 5, a combined Woodberry Forest / St. Christopher's golf team played the British Swifts, a schoolboy team of eight golfers from the UK, at the Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot, VA. The Swifts played well, defeating the US team 4-1 in fourball matches. The lone US victory came from the pair of WFS coach Marc Hogan and Kinloch host Jack Fockler beating the Swifts' coaches, Iain Henderson and Keven Johnstone, 2&1.
Since 1969, the Swifts take a biennial tour of the eastern US, arriving in late March for two weeks of golf. Over 200 students from 22 schools on both sides of the Atlantic have participated. Woodberry Forest first hosted the British Swifts in 1971, and last summer, Timothy Walter '13 and Coach Marc Hogan traveled to the UK as part of the American Swifts team.
2014 British Swifts Tour
British Swifts vs. Woodberry Forest/St.Christopher's
Kinloch GC
18 holes par 72
6810 yards
Fourball matches
The British Swifts' schools are listed in parenthesis. The WFS player is listed first in the American pair.
Match Scores
1. Edoardo Lipparelli (Wellington)-Charles Dunn (Warminster) def. Peter Knade-Austin Fockler 7&6
2. Joe Carmody-Firth (Whitgift)- George Haggerty (Harrow) def.Teddy Garner-Trey Romig 1 up
3. Ben Dunlop (Bedford) - Max Cooper (Eton) def.Rob Prater-Connor Johnson 3&2
4. George Mullins (Whitgift) - Nick Acfield (Blundell's) def. Thomas Mack-Coleman Andrews 3&2
5. Marc Hogan-Jack Fockler def. Iain Henderson (Wellington)-Keven Johnstone (Uppingham) 2&1
