OSAA 6A Golf Championships Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Sand flies as Todd Vrooman of Tualatin hits out of a bunker Tuesday on the fourth hole at the OGA course in Woodburn. Vrooman finished tied for fifth with a two-day score of 145 (+1).

Yesterday I covered the final day of the 6A boys golf championships in at the OGA Golf Course in Woodburn (just south of Portland). The results are posted here.

High school golf is played both as a team sport and an individual contest. The individual winners are calculated much the same way as at a PGA event. Team scores are calculated by totaling the scores of five players from the same school.

For the golf championships, the top two teams from each district qualify for the meet, as do the three highest individuals not on one of those teams. In class 6A, 91 golfers from across the state qualified for the tournament.

(right) Philip Bagdade puts his 66th shot of the day into the 18th hole Tuesday afternoon at the 6A boys golf championships in Woodburn. Though he started the day tied for 11th, five shots off the pace, the Sheldon junior blew past the competition with a solid second round, winning the individual title by two strokes.

(left) After playing the 18th hole, Grant's Will Guitteau looks a club he broke in frustration on the previous hole. Course officials ruled that the club was "modified other than in the normal course of play," and he was disqualified for using it.

Philip Bagdade (table, at right) cringes as he awaits the team results. Sheldon came up two strokes behind Jesuit for the team title.