The final teams and individuals from the Upper and Lower state Qualifying Tournaments are spending the weekend tuning up their games for the state championships. One Classification held its championship last week as Chesnee won the South Carolina High School League AA Championship.’ Starting on Monday AAAAA schools […]
We got spoiled the last couple of years when it came to looking up where the top players from the Palmetto State were ranked. With Jacob Bridgeman at Clemson, Ryan Hall at South Carolina and Trent Phillips at Georgia, we didn’t have to look much past the top-10 […]
Chesnee held a 30 shot lead over the field after the first round of the AA state championship at Cheraw State Park, but Eagles coach Kyle Scruggs told his team not to be too happy with their first round. “We still had golf to play. I knew we […]
A blustery wind and some key absences due to the flu bug changed the order at the top of the Class AAA Upstate Qualifying tournament. The teams expected to make the field for next week’s state championship did, but in a different order than expected. Seneca has been […]
By Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor-Publisher The hosts made the most of their own party in the 4A Upper State golf qualifier at Saluda Valley on Monday. Pickens fired a team score of 334 to beat Catawba Ridge by five strokes to take the top qualifying spot headed into […]
If this was a big league professional team, someone in the front office would be responsible for covering the lockers with plastic, icing down the champagne and printing championship tee-shirts. The Chesnee Eagles could be doing all of those things if they were a pro team, but instead […]
Dorman’s scorching girls golf season continued at the 5A Upper State qualifier at Chester Country Club on Monday. The Cavaliers fired a 298 to finish first in the tournament, winning by 12 shots over second-place Chapin. T.L. Hanna was third with a 313, with Blythewood (315) and Mauldin […]
By Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor-Publisher Donnie Fredricks wasn’t one of the winners in Sunday’s Jimmie Evatt Memorial Fall TexasTwo-Man tournament at Saluda Valley, but he’d have been the favorite in a card game. Fredricks made his competitors beat a pair of aces. After starting on the back nine, […]
By Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor-Publisher Faced with the prospect of a chip-off to decide the Upstate Fall Two-Man Team Championship at Three Pines, Tyler Croxton and Matthew Wiggins elected not to watch their opponents. They couldn’t have seen much anyway. After a long back nine led to two […]
Taking home hard ware from any one of the highly competitive South Carolina Junior championships in a year lets you know you are a pretty good player. When you haul the hardware away from two tournaments, you let everyone else in the state know you got game. Jay […]
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