2019 State Champions!!
2019: A Record-Setting Year
Best 18-hole Team Score = 284 at CC of Columbus, May 20th (Carter Loflin, Jack McDonald, Stephen Kinsel, & Max Muenchen).
Best 36-hole Team Score = 576 at CC of Columbus, May 20th & 21st (Loflin 139, Kinsel 144, Muenchen & Shaun Cook 149, McDonald 150) tied the previous 576 set on April 12th & 13th at Sunset Hills CC (Loflin 140, Kinsel 143, McDonald 146, Cook 147).
Best 18-hole Individual Round tied by Carter Loflin (65 at CCC, 1st Round of State).
Best 36-hole Individual Tournament broken twice by Loflin = 140 at Sunset Hills/Trojan Invitational, then a sensational 139 at CCC, en route to the school's first-ever STATE LOW-MEDALIST RUNNER UP!!!
Two players (Stephen Kinsel and Carter Loflin) with sub-75 Season Scoring Averages and seven players (Kinsel, Loflin, McDonald, Cook, Muenchen, Will Hermann, and Charles Kyle) with sub-80 Season Scoring Averages.
SEVEN EVENT VICTORIES AS A TEAM!!!!!
And.....A FIRST-EVER TEAM STATE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!
Great work fellas. Let's get back after it in 2020.
2019 Lakewood Junior Varsity Champions
Thanks to the Columbus High School golf crew for hosting this nine team event. Pius was led to victory by Liam Tice's 77 in the team's run to a winning 321 total.
2018 AAAA State Runners Up
Greenbrier Cup Champions
Pius defeated Athens Academy 8-0, halved with Lakeside-Evans 4-4, and beat Etowah in the Championship by a 16-7 margin....Freshman Will Hermann paired with fellow Freshman Liam Tice to earn two victories in team matches, then won his singles match for a great 3-0-0 weekend....Jack McDonald and Max Muenchen had huge days on Saturday with 8&6 + 5&4 wins, respectively while Daniel McKenzie and Stephen Kinsel got pushed to the wire with duplicate 2-up victories....and kudos to Senior Joey Rufolo, partnered with Junior Blake Thatch on the team matches, for going undefeated on the weekend with a 1-0-2 record.
Archdiocese Cup Champions
2nd Place Finish for Golden Lions at Bear's Best
Led by Stephen Kinsel's 72, the Lions fell one single stroke short of victory at the Inaugural North Gwinnett Invitational on March 3rd. Daniel McKenzie, Jack McDonald, and Max Muenchen worked hard for matching 78's after slow starts in the team's first medal play event of the year.
2018 Starts with Solid Match Play Event Finishes
After defending their Ironman Kickoff title, the Golden Lions finished 4th at the first-ever Octagon Invitational. See more in each event bubble on the schedule page.
2018 Q-School Starts on Monday, 2/12!
Please be sure to check in with Coach Cook if you have any questions regarding the Tryout/Q-School procedure, transportation, club shipping, etc. Assignments for the Monday Screening Session at The Hooch will be posted on the door to room 302 on Friday, 2/9 as will tee-times for Round 0 candidates, so be sure to check in there.
Congratulations to Daniel McKenzie!
The Golden Lion & 2017 AAAA State Champion becomes a Mercer Bear next fall!!!
