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Boys golf: News-Sun All-Clark County Team

Tecumseh senior had best area 9-hole average; Kenton Ridge coach led Cougars to 15-0 season.

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By David Jablonski, Staff Writer Updated 8:11 AM Thursday, November 19, 2009

SPRINGFIELD — The best individual golfer and the coach of the best team in the Central Buckeye Conference take home the 2009 Springfield News-Sun Clark County boys golf awards.

Tecumseh High School senior Kyle Furlong is the player of the year. He led all county golfers with a nine-hole stroke average of 36.3, while finishing in the top five in every tournament he played.

“I wanted to have a really good year,” Furlong said. “That way colleges would start looking at me.”

For Furlong, the shot of the year was a two-foot putt at Sugar Isle on Sept. 10 to break the nine-hole school record. That was one of his goals at the beginning of the season. At 3 under par with four holes to play, he knew he could get it with three pars and a birdie on the final par-5. That’s what he did, shooting a 32 to break the 10-year-old record of 33.

“I stuck it on the green in two,” Furlong said. “I was thinking two putt, and I’d get the school record, and I two putted.”

Kenton Ridge coach Chris White led the Cougars to a 15-0 season. His team repeated as winners of the Clark County meet, the Ross Hogue Invitational, the Benjamin Logan Invitational, the CBC meet and the sectional meet.

“It was a pleasant surprise to be honest with you,” White said. “I figured we would be fairly good. When you lose the five guys we lost and you bring back three sophomores playing varsity for the first time, you just kind of roll with the punches, but we didn’t have to take too many this year. We had fun.”

The rest of the first team includes Tecumseh junior Scott Rogers; Shawnee freshman Clark Engle; Greenon junior Dylan Anderson; Kenton Ridge sophomore Clay Portz; and Northeastern senior Cameron Thomas.

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