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Thursday, November 1, 2007
A Preview of the State Champs?
Fort Worth, TX
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The path to a state golf title goes through the Bart Granger Memorial, or at least history says that’s par for the course.
Want to make a safe bet on who will win the state golf tournament next spring? If the current trend continues, the winner of the Bart Granger Memorial Tournament will be hoisting the championship trophy come May.
“Of the nine years past we’ve done this, whoever won this tournament won the state championship as a team,” Paschal head golf coach Trampis Wilson said.
Paschal hosts the annual Bart Granger Memorial Tournament, which is now in its tenth year. The tournament is the largest in the country for high school golf. More than 260 players from over 50 teams compete in a 54-hole, two-day event at Pecan Valley Golf Course in Fort Worth. The field is unrivaled.
“We have 35 teams that went to the regional meet [last season],” Wilson explained. “We’ve got the 5A state runner-up, the 4A state champion and runner-up, the 3A state champion, the 2A, 3A, 4A, and 5A individual state champions. You win this tournament, you’ve got a good chance at winning state.”
This year, the team with that chance to win state is Plano West. The Wolves devoured the competition, finishing 23 strokes ahead of second-place Highland Park. El Paso Hanks finished third with Hebron taking fourth place.
Defending champion of the Bart Granger Memorial and defending 4A state champion Aledo wasn’t much of a factor, though that wasn’t completely unexpected. This year’s young squad hardly resembles the group that won those titles last year.
“Going in, we had four new players with little to no tournament experience,” Aledo head golf coach Greg Nelson said. “We thought if we could get into the championship bracket it would be a successful tournament, and we were able to do that. Overall, it was a really successful tournament considering our level of experience going into it.”
Host Paschal, which won the tournament in 2005, failed to reach the championship bracket for the first time in the tournament’s history, and spent the second day battling through the consolation bracket, where the team came up 19 strokes short of consolation winners Arlington Heights. Senior Austin Phillips’ first career bogey-free final round led the Jackets. Phillips hit 17 straight greens before missing on 18 en route to his 3-under total of 69.
Sophomore Cory Whitsett of Houston Memorial won the individual title, posting three sub-par rounds including a 4-under 66 on the River course on the first day.
The Bart Granger Memorial Tournament is held in honor of Bart Granger, a golfer at Paschal High School who was killed in an automobile accident during his junior year in 1997.
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