The Adams Girls had a commanding 15-shot lead over Brighton and 18-shot lead over Northville after the first round. Adams kept the foot on the gas in the second round and won by a 47-stroke margin over Brighton. Rochester High School finished third and Northville was fourth. Grand Blanc senior, Kate Brody won the MHSAA Girls Championship as a sophomore in 2020 and added a second state championship title to her resume this year. She fired a two-day total of 145 at Bedford Valley to end her high school career before heading to the University of Wisconsin next year. Brody finished one shot ahead of runner-up Elise Fennell from East Kentwood and four better than Grace Wang, from Rochester Adams and Rockwood’s Jessica Jolly, who both tied for third. Division 2 Farmington Hills Mercy Girls Golf Team had won two MHSAA State Championships and had finished runner-up two other times in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s but had not been a factor in the state tournament for the past 20 years. Head Coach Vicky Kowalski acknowledged that today’s girls high school golfers shoot a lot lower scores than back in those days, when Mercy was an annual power in Michigan girls golf. Mercy held a 10-stroke lead after the first round and their two-day total of 684 was 27 shots better than runner-up South Lyon, who had been ranked No. 1 ahead of Mercy and was the defending MHSAA State Champion. In the individual segment of the tournament, junior Macie Elzinga, from Byron Center became the first MHSAA State Champion in her school’s history. She began the final round with a one-shot lead over two-time MHSAA State Champ, from South Lyon, Gabby Tapp. Tapp was seeking her third state title in the last four years, but Elzinga’s final round 76 was good enough to finish five shots ahead of Tapp for the title.
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