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Dates: Monday, April 28
Format: Each club will play as two four-ball sides. Each four-ball side must return a scorecard with the score to count for the team being individually identifiable. The club’s total score is determined by adding the two four-ball scores together. The winning team may come from either shotgun. If there is a tie, co-champions will be recognized.
Host site: The Foundry Golf Club
Strong morning round propels Keswick to title
(Keswick's Kyle Bailey and Craig Fenton discuss a putting line Monday at The Foundry. Credit: Chris Lang/VSGA)
By Chris Lang
POWHATAN -- For the first time in a decade, a Virginia State Golf Association member club from outside the Richmond metro has won the VSGA Club Championship.
Keswick Club, located just east of Charlottesville, posted a team total of 13-under-par 131 to win the 82nd playing of the event on Monday at The Foundry Golf Club. Keswick finished three shots clear of the host club's A team, which posted a 10-under total of 134. The last non-Richmond area clubs to win the championship were Army Navy CC and Cavalier G&YC, which shared the spoils in 2015.
Keswick members Kyle Bailey and Will Collins teamed earlier this month to win the VSGA Multi-Format Team Championship at The Dominion Club. They split up for this championship, with Bailey pairing with Craig Fenton to shoot a 7-under 65, and Collins teaming with Boston Craddock to post a 6-under 66. No one in the afternoon wave seriously threatened to overtake Keswick's morning showing. Hermitage CC and Willow Oaks CC, both of which went out in the morning, tied for third at 9-under 135, as did International Country Club and Country Club of Fairfax, which went out in the afternoon.
Belle Haven CC, Chatmoss CC, and Lakeside Park Club tied for seventh at 8-under 136.
NOTABLE
- Mount Vernon Country Club's Cody Stadler aced the par-3 7th hole, using a 9-iron from 160 yards out. It was Stadler's first hole in one.
- The Foundry's Jay Woodson and Paras Pandya posted a 6-under 66, and Austin Gray and Ren Schiffman added a 4-under 68 for The Foundry's 10-under total.
- Two sides posted 8-under rounds of 64 to tie for low four-ball score of the day. Virginia Beach National Golf Club's Mason McCoy and Kevin Olson had a wild round that featured seven birdies, an eagle, a bogey, and a double bogey. In the afternoon, Lakeside Park Club's Brandon Ramsuer and Blanton Farmer matched that round, finishing with nine birdies and a bogey.
- Bailey and Fenton kept a clean scorecard and finished with five birdies and an eagle.
- Nine sides posted 6-under rounds of 66.