Benedictine golf team looks to rebound in state tourney at Savannah Golf Club
State Golf Tournaments — Benedictine struggled in the first day at Savannah Golf Club. Savannah Country Day boys lead in Private School tournament.
The Benedictine golf team entered the Class 4A State Tournament as one of the top teams in Georgia, across all classifications, and the Cadets were looking forward to hosting the event at their home course — The Savannah Golf Club. But the Cadets didn't play to their potential Monday in the opening round of the 36-hole event as BC shot a team score of 308 (with the top four scores among six golfers counting to team score) to come in at 24-over par. The Cadets sit in fourth place, 23 strokes behind the leader Cartersville, which shot one-over par.
Cadet star Bear Dollander, the defending state champion who has committed to play at Alabama, got off to a rough start. After birdieing the first hole, the junior left-hander took a triple-bogey 7 on the third and then bogeyed No. 6, No.
7 and No. 8 to make the turn in five-over par. He battled back on the back nine with birdies at No.
10 and on the par-3 14th hole to shoot a four-over par 75. He is in 13th place, 10 strokes behind Cartersville junior Bodie Brumlow, who carded seven birdies in his stellar round of 65. Benedictine junior Jack Weeks and sophomore Alex Dao both shot 77 and freshman Carson Hayes had a 79.
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