2011 Golf Season Recap...

Our young golfer had a TREMENDOUS season this year! He added to his letter and scrapbook =) The highlights:
Won PHS Masters--trophy
Won PHS match play--trophy
Won his match in the Southwest Cup, playing in the #2 spot for the entire conference--medal
Conference medalist with a 74, blowing the field away
First team all-conference--medal
PHS MVP--wall plaque
PHS lowest season average--name engraved on a trophy that stays at school
Top 10 medalist at the Springs invitational--medal
Top PHS score for all but one mini-meet
And a TON of ink in the local newspaper.
SO proud of Parker =)

Conference Medalist!!!!

The 2011 SWC conference meet was held yesterday on a very tough, non-conference course. Guess who was the medalist?!?! My baby boy blew the competition away with a 2 over par 74!!!! One bogey on the back, TWO birdies and pars everywhere else. I wasn't able to be there, but his Dad sent me texts after every hole and it was exciting even from a distance, HA!
I sent the message to give him a hug for me and I was told that there was a line to hug him after that round =)
We also learned yesterday that because of his phenomenal season, Parker made first team all-conference. So very proud of my sweet golfer!!

SWC vs SWAL cup, 2011

So last year, 2 adjoining conferences came up with the idea of pitting the top 30 players from each conference in a Ryder Cup style tournament. The #1 player from SWC would play the #1 player from SWAL and so on all the way down to #30. Last year Parker was somewhere in the 11-20 range in points for our conference, this year he is number TWO! (and he's beaten the #1 a couple of times this year).
It was a very cold and windy day---so not fair for May 14! But my baby boy played like the weather wasn't a factor, he was amazing--one of his best days on this course. I won't bore you with tons of golfing terms and lingo, you can just take my word that he "done good" HA!
SWC pulled out the win again today, and Parker adds another medal to his letter =)

Momma to a Medalist!

On Saturday, Parker had a golf meet invitational with 19 schools and 92 golfers involved in it. I am VERY proud to say that Parker finished in the top 10 and medaled for his score of 85. He was also the top golfer for PHS for the day. He had a tremendous back nine, but struggled a little on the front. He lost 2 balls, but made the best of what could have been a very ugly situation. Momma already has the hardware stitched onto his athletic letter =)

Parker's successful year!

To quickly recap Parker's golf season: As a team, the Hillmen finished 1st in the conference, won the conference meet, won their Regional, finished 3rd in their Sectional (quick yip here: a few years ago the WIAA allowed PRIVATE schools into the public school association--up until then the private schools had their own association with its own, separate tournament system. Now, in many sports, these private schools (who have the ability to recruit and offer scholarships to outstanding athletes) have overtaken the tournaments: football, basketball, tennis, golf and more. In our division, 5 of the 8 schools represented were private) the top 2 teams from the sectional go, so we missed by one =(
Individually Parker had a fabulous year as well. In the Platteville invitational he finished 3rd in his flight (of 17 schools, I believe). In the SWAL/SWC conference playoff he and his partner won their match and a share of the title. At Whistling Straits he carded the second best score of the team. He finished 14th in the entire conference in points, JUST missing making all-conference (had he not missed a meet due to the flu, his coach is certain he would have made it). He lettered again and was voted most improved by his teammates for taking about 5 strokes off of his score. WooHoo =)
**The letter and golfbag pin he received last year. This year he added the bar for lettering again, the medals are for conference, SWC/SWAL playoff and P-ville invitational.

Congratulations, Golfers!!

Well, I did not make it to Parker's conference golf meet today =( Which was a real shame because he played a FABULOUS round!! He and his teammates had the top 4 scores of the entire meet: a 76, 79 and two 80's, he had one of the 80's. The team won by more than 30 strokes over the next closest team and 4 of the boys made the all-conference team. (Parker missed a meet last week due to the illness than went through the house. I think if he had made that meet, he'd have a great shot at making all-conference as well. Maybe next year!!)
These pictures are from the conference challenge on Saturday, but the boys that played today are the same =)
Congrats to my sweet teenage son and his teammates!!!