Michigan Golf Journal July 2021

35 July 2021 www.michigangolfjournal.com “Luke Richard, my junior, shot his best season score (in the first round) in the five spot,” she said. Normally he’s in the high 70s but he got a 74 for us, which counted because my No. 1 shot his worst score (in first round). You can talk about how we should play, but he really played to the moment.” Brighton senior Davis Codd was individual medalist with a huge 5-under par in the final round – and Forest Akers West played in conditions set up for Big Ten play, so most golfers scored higher than their averages. In the two-week window of regionals and the state finals, Codd was at an NHL prospects hockey camp in Erie, Penn. – yet that didn’t stop the high school golfer from returning to Michigan in between to finish the spring golf season with co- medalist honors at regionals and the Div. 1 state finals. “Going into the second round I had a game plan to go out there and make as many birdies as I could,” Codd said. “The entire day I didn’t look at the leaderboard once. After I walked off that green (No. 13, his final hole) I kind of figured it out. But I had the same game plan all day, to go and attack the hole.” Codd birdied his first four holes (Nos. 14-17), and after some up and down play midway through the round, he stepped up to the last hole, the par 5, 13 th , and ripped a drive down the long, skinny fairway to within wedge length and made a two- putt birdie to top-off his final round as a high school player, who happens to double as a professional hockey player for the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit. Three others tied for Div. 1 state runners up at 143 – Murphy Kehoe of Traverse City West, first-round leader Jack Zubkus of Forest Hills Northern and freshman Ieuan Jones of Ann Arbor Skyline. Division 2: Birmingham Brother Rice shot back-to-back 290s to finish the state finals at 580 for 36-holes and a commanding state championship win, played at Bedford Valley. Flint Powers Catholic was runner up at 608. Senior Brockton English of Pontiac Notre Dame won medalist at 67- 67-134 followed by Lorenzo Pinili of Brother Rice with 71-68-139. Division 3: Grand Rapids Catholic Central (623) won the state title over two schools that tied for runner up at 640 – Big Rapids and Hanover Horton. For Big Rapids it was the program’s fourth consecutive runner up finish (not including last season’s cancelation due to Covid). Hanover Horton won the 2018 state title. Sophomore PJ Maybank of Cheboygan ran away with medalist at 66-69-135. Division 4: Defending champ (from 2019) Kalamazoo Hackett won the team title again, with a 640 score to finish ahead of Lansing Christian at 646. Sophomore Remy Stalcup of Everest Collegiate was medalist and the only player under par at 70-72-142. MGJ