10/01/15 – Pairings Set for 2015 Leachman Buick•GMC•Cadillac/KHSAA Golf Championships

October 1, 2015 2015-2016 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2015

The first state championships of the 2015-16 season will be contested next week with the 2015 Leachman Buick•GMC•Cadillac/KHSAA Boys’ and Girls’ Golf Championships at the Bowling Green Country Club. The boys’ golf championship opens the week with a practice round on Monday, Oct. 5th and 18 holes of competition on both Tuesday, Oct. 6th and Wednesday, Oct. 7th. The girls’ championship begins with a practice round on Thursday, Oct. 8th, followed by first round action on Friday, Oct. 9th and the final round on Saturday, Oct. 10th.

First round tee times and pairings for the boys’ and girls’ championships are available at the following links:

Boys’ 1st Round Tee Times and Complete Results

Girls’ 1st Round Tee Times and Complete Results

A complete list of top qualifiers from the regional tournaments can be found on the golf homepage at KHSAA.org, which will have live scoring available throughout the competition.

On the boys’ side, St. Xavier and Owensboro Catholic’s John Augenstein will look to repeat as team and individual champion, respectively, at this year’s event. St. Xavier claimed the team title in 2014 with a 586 (293-293) team score, while Augenstein fired a six-under par 138 (69-69) to capture medalist honors.

Sacred Heart, meanwhile, enters the 2015 girls’ state tournament in search of its fifth-straight team title, having edged Henry Clay on the first playoff hole of last year’s event after the two schools shot matching 645 totals after 36 holes. Shelby County senior Madison Thomas claimed medalist honors at last year’s event with a five-under par 139 total (71-68).

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 277 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 43 state championships in 13 sports and 4 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.