Central Georgians in hunt for individual, team GHSA golf titles after first round

The Sports Report of Central Georgia

            Eight individual golfers from Central Georgia are within a few good breaks of winning a GHSA golf individual championship, and two teams are very much in the hunt for team titles after one day of action.

            The Class 6A tournament in Jekyll Island barely got started before weather halted action.

            Rutland’s Eujin Pyon is in first place in Class 3A girls, with a two-stroke lead over Bremen’s Christian Williams and 5-stroke lead over defending champion – and older sister – Carol Pyon. The Hurricanes are in second place, 22 strokes behind Pace.

            Hunter Dokey of Hawkinsville is in a three-player logjam atop the Class A boys public leaderboard, with the Red Devils seventh, 42 strokes behind first-place Gordon Lee.

            Veterans’ Mailey Buzzell is second in Class 5A girls with a 75, just behind the 74 of Starr’s Mill’s Liza Eubanks. Starr’s Mill has a 15-stroke lead over Veterans in team play.

            FPD’s boys are very much in the hunt to defend their Class A boys private title, trailing Holy Innocents by two strokes. Jay Spivey is 2 under, behind three players tied at 3 under.

            Bleckley County’s girls are second, five behind St. Vincent’s, and the two teams have the top five individual golfers. The Royals’ Brooke Krieg is third, a stroke back, and Dawson Greer is next, among three players four strokes back.

            Dodge County’s girls are eighth, 31 strokes behind St. Vincent’s

            Wyatt Jones of Dodge County is tied for fifth in Class AA boys, five back of leader Aidan Ganley of Benedictine, and has helped the Indians to fourth place, 13 strokes behind first-place Metter.

            Stratford’s girls are in sixth place in Class A girls private, 18 strokes behind leader Darlington

            ACE is sixth in Class A girls public, 81 strokes behind leader Lake Oconee Academy.