Woodberry Forest Golf

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Golf among athletic programs praised in The Daily Progress

Check out this great article by Charlottesville's Daily Progress correspondent Robert Edmonds:

http://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/woodberry-s-winners/article_40fbf094-e812-11e2-a8d8-0019bb30f31a.html

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Golf exchange team victorious on UK trip

Follow the team's progress around the UK on Twitter, @hoganmarc.

Timothy Walter '13 is shown here with the rest of the Swifts at Woodhall Spa, where they added another win to their tour.

Woodberry's Coach Marc Hogan, along with players from Woodhall Spa and the Swifts.

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Coach Hogan and Timothy Walter '13 have arrived in UK

The Blair-Wellington golf exchange begins today as the team plays the course at Wellington College.

You can join the fun on Twitter: @HoganMarc

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Tiger tied for third at Jr. Golf Championship

Peter Knade '16 is tied for 3rd after the first round of the 41st Southern Junior Golf Championship at the
Country Club of Virginia-Tuckahoe Creek

The championship concludes today (Thursday).

First day standings for other VPL players are:

Peter Knade (WFS) 69 tied 3rd
Wade Hayes (COL) 71 tied 10th
Trey Romig (STC) 76
Ian Buchanan (STAB) 77
Fitz Woodrow (STAB) 79
Austin Fockler (STC) 81
Boyd Peete (STC) 86

More results are on the Southern Golf Association website.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Golf coaches get a taste of competition

On June 11-12, 2013, Marc Hogan and David Smith competed in Danville, Virginia, at the VSGA Senior Stroke Play Championship.

Marc finished twelfth out of eighteen in the age 50-54 division with scores of 80 and 76. David tied for fifteenth of twenty-one in the 60-65 division with scores of 86 and 83.

Read coverage of the championship on the VSGA website.

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.

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.