When Greenville won the Greenville County High School championship head coach David Cattrell said he saw his Red Raider team trending in the right direction.

The right direction was pointing to Aiken and the Southern Cross at the Palmetto Golf Club were Greenville won the championship by topping the best public and private school teams in the state.

“This really is a big win because you are not just competing against the teams in your classification, but you are playing all the top teams,” said Cattrell.

The Red Raiders used a balanced attack with all four golfers contributing counting scores to win the school’s first Southern Cross championship.

Greenville shot a final round 225 total to edge out their AAAA arch rival AC Flora from Columbia and Blue Ridge from Greer for the win in the invitational.

Greenville began the second round one shot behind first round leader Trinity Collegiate from Darlington, The former champions in the event were in front of Greenville, but there was plenty of competition right behind with Wren, Blue Ridge, Hilton Head Prep and Flora close.

Future Clemson golfer Tip Price was playing in his fourth Southern Cross tournament and shared some of the experience he has gained over the years with his teammates before the final round at the always challenging Palmetto Golf Club..

“I told everybody to not get ahead of themselves. Play to the front of the green and we would be all right,” Price said, “I think the way we played in the first round gave us confidence we could get the win,” he added.

Price, who has not been satisfied with his play this spring , gave credit to Charlie Warren’s play as being the biggest part of the win,

“”Everybody had to play well for us to win, but Charlie played great, His score counted in every round. Our team is deeper this year than in past year’s and that also helped in the win,” he said.

The first round highlight for the Red Raiders was Hugh Faulkner’s 1-under par 70 to share the first round lead and get the team off to a good start.

“Hugh got us off to a great start and then Tip and Parker (Homesley) and Charlie all played great. It was a real team win,” said Cattrell.

In the final round Price finished with a 74, Warren shot a 76 and Homesley carded a 75 for Greenville’s final 448 total and a two-shot win over Flora and Blue Ridge.

“We’ve been chasing Flora for a state championship for a couple of years now. It was good to finish in front of them and now I hope we can do it at state,” said Price.

After Greenville, Blue RIdge led by Dawson Szabo’s 1-under par final round 70 moved up to tie Flora for second place at 450. Hilton Head Prep was fourth with first round leader Trinity Collegiate finishing in fifth place.

Team Scores from the Southern Cross https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10549339277827797032