April 5- 7, 2012! Barefoot Resort and Legends Resort will be our hosting our event this year. Our host accommodations are at Legends resort with 2 bedroom condos for $100 per night and 3 bedroom condos for $150 per night. Please email palmetto@golfholiday.com with any questions!
Charlotte Country Day’s Al Dickens thought he had lost his chance for an individual title at the Palmetto High School Golf Championship with a bogey, double bogey finish during the final round at Tiger’s Eye. Moments after walking off the 18th green, Dickens learned that his 36-hole total of 144 was good enough to earn a sudden death playoff against good friend Charles Spry of Forsyth Country Day School.
Dickens didn’t squander his second chance.
The senior drained a five-foot par putt on the first playoff hole (No. 10), completing a nice up-and-down after finding a fairway bunker, to extend the playoff. Dickens, who entered the tournament 3-0 in playoffs, two-putted for par on the par 3, 11th hole to defeat Spry, who narrowly missed a 6-footer that would have pushed the playoff to a third hole.
The playoff capped a great tournament for Dickens and his Charlotte Country Day teammates. The Bucs, playing the Parkland Course at Legends Resort in the first round and Tiger’s Eye at Ocean Ridge Plantation in the second, carded a team total of 605, good for a three-shot win over Forestview High School (608) in the Championship Flight. Forsyth Country Day finished third with a total of 611.
The victory was Charlotte Country Day’s first of the season and its first at the Palmetto.
Clover (S.C.) High School shot a two-day total of 644 at Moorland and Panther’s Run to win the first flight, besting Arab (Ala.) High School by five shots. Greer (S.C.) High School’s Ryan Lynn won first flight medalist honors with a score of 150.
Turlock Christian (Calif.), playing at Heathland and Lion’s Paw, won the second flight with a score of 684. Mount Vernon (Mo.) High School was second at 694. Millville (N.J) High School’s Anthony Lofeck captured medalist honors in the second flight, shooting a 155.
The 14th annual Palmetto High School Golf Championship, a 54-hole, college style event, attracted 48 teams from 10 states, including California. All 48 teams played a qualifying round on Thursday and were placed into one of three flights, based on their score, for the 36-hole finish.
Waiting on a few more teams to send in the rosters with players 1-5. As soon as we have every teams roster we will send out tee times for Thursday’s qualifier. If you have not sent in your roster please email Kerri kduckett@golfholiday.com
The 2011 Palmetto High School Golf Championship will be held April 21- 23. More information coming soon!
Take a look at all the great footage from the 2010 Palmetto High School Golf Championship
La Quinta High School won the 2010 Palmetto High School Golf Championship in sudden death, and, not surprisingly, the California school was well represented on the all-tournament team. La Quinta’s Alfred Castro, who shot a three-day total of 215, was the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.
Castro fired a 69 during the qualifying round and was one-stroke short of capturing medalist honors.
Joining Castro on the all-tournament team were his Blackhawks teammate Tad Murray (219), Forestview’s Taylor Dickson (220), who captured medalist honors, Wesleyan Christian’s Davis Womble (220), Ryan Cornelius (221) of Orange Lutheran and Pinewood Prep’s Austin Cody (219).
The Palmetto also featured an outstanding crop of young golfers, led by Pinewood Prep’s Richard Hubbard (223), who paced the all-freshman team. Joining Hubbard were Josh Whalen (231) of Napanee District Secondary School, Forestview’s Will Long (232), South Pointe’s Briar Herd (241) and Providence Day School’s Davis Bateman (243).
La Quinta (Calif.) High School seniors Alfred Castro, Mark Hicks, Tad Murray, Joey Simonds and Tyler Henry have been friends since grade school. They attended junior golf clinics and have been competing together since they started playing the game, which made their sudden death victory in the 13th annual Palmetto High School Golf Championship Saturday at Ocean Ridge Plantation all the sweeter.
After 36 holes of stroke-play competition, La Quinta and Forestview High School (Gastonia, N.C.) were tied at 605. The Palmetto’s rules call for a team, sudden death playoff. All five players for each team competed with the top four scores counting, a format the close knit Blackhawks embraced.
The playoff started and ended on the 375-yard 10th hole on the Lion’s Paw course. Castro, Hicks, Simonds and Murray, all made par 4s, giving La Quinta an aggregate total one stroke better than Forestview.
The Blackhawks bested a field that included 60 teams from 12 states. (Full Scoreboard)
“This is huge,” La Quinta coach Joe Simonds said. “This is about as big (a tournament) as we play. You’ve got teams from all over the nation coming. It’s pretty impressive.”
It was the second win in tournament history for La Quinta, and Castro (3rd), Hicks (t-5th) and Murray (t-12th) all finished in the top 12 individually.
“The thing that makes it special is all five us being such good friends,” Hicks said. “Doing it together, in a sudden death playoff, makes that high of winning even higher.”
It was a disappointing end for Forestview, but the Jaguars played outstanding golf, led by Taylor Dickson, who captured medalist honors after shooting a 70 at Lion’s Paw, the low-round of the day. Dickson finished with a two-day total of 145, same as South Pointe (N.J.) High School’s Miles Curley. Dickson won medalist honors by virtue of shooting the lower round on Saturday.
South Pointe finished third in the championship flight with 36-hole total of 612. Charlotte Country Day, which entered the final round with a one-shot lead, finished fourth (613). Defending tournament champion Pinewood Prep was unable to make a charge and finished fifth (618). Pinewood’s Cody Austin, the 25th ranked junior in the world and the defending medalist winner, shot a 72 at Lion’s Paw and finished fourth (147).
Academic Magnet School won the First Flight with a 36-hole total of 636, six shots better than Diamond Bar (Calif.) High School. Davis Womble of Wesleyan Christian Academy captured medalist honors with a 144. The First Flight played at Lion’s Paw.
Greer (S.C.) High School cruised to victory in the Second Flight, finishing at 653, 19 strokes better than second place Carolina Day School. Greer’s Ryan Lynn won Second Flight medalist honors (150).
Niagara District School won flight three with a two-day total of 698, besting Chapin High School by nine strokes. Nate Butcher of Millville High School (N.J.) and Asheville (N.C.) High School’s Brandon Twigg each shot a 14-over 158, but Twigg’s won the individual competition with his second round 77.
The Second and Third flights played the highly acclaimed Tiger’s Eye layout Saturday at Ocean Ridge.
Pawleys Plantation and Prestwick were among the four courses that hosted the first round of stroke play Friday at the Palmetto High School Golf Championship. Charlotte Country Day is one stroke ahead of LaQuinta (Calif.) in the championship flight, and four teams are within three shots of the lead, setting the stage for an exciting finish at Ocean Ridge Plantation.
Enjoy photos of the Day 2 action.
Enjoy the sights on Day 1 of the Palmetto High School Golf Championship!
