High School Golf State Championship - Idaho

We just wrapped up hosting the two day high school state golf championship for the state of Idaho.  It was a great event, with almost 100 boys and girls golfers.  The weather was very warm and allowed us to produce some great golfing conditions for all the student athletes.  Good job to everybody that was involved in the event and all teh work that it took to put it on starting with practice rounds on Saturday.  Some impressive up and coming talent came through the course, with day 1 producing boys leaders shooting 70,71, and many 72-74's.  The girls had a 70 and several 75-78's.

http://www.idahosports.com/tournaments/

http://idhsaa.org/sports/golf/1213/5AGolfResults.pdf

We set-up the golf course the same way we do each day for our members.  With hole locations and tee marker placement the same, and greens speed was what our members play on each day.  Most of the student athletes and coaches, who played in practice rounds on Sat and Sun, spoke very highly of the greens and were impressed with the speed, smoothness, and trueness.  I think we saw that in the scores as most scores throughout the field were lower on day 2 compared with day 1.  I believe many of them got use to the green speeds, which were probably the quickest greens they have played on all spring.

The tournament finished with a tie and playoff hole for both the girls and boys division.