Dickens, Charlotte Country Day Win Palmetto High School Golf Championship

Charlotte Country Day’s Al Dickens thought he had lost his chance for an individual title at the Palmetto High School Golf Championship with a bogey, double bogey finish during the final round at Tiger’s Eye golf course. Moments after walking off the 18th green, Dickens learned that his 36-hole total of 144 was good enough to earn a sudden death playoff against good friend Charles Spry of Forsyth Country Day School.

Dickens didn’t squander his second chance.
 

The senior drained a five-foot par putt on the first playoff hole (No. 10), completing a nice up-and-down after finding a fairway bunker, to extend the playoff. Dickens, who entered the tournament 3-0 in playoffs, two-putted for par on the par 3, 11th hole to defeat Spry, who narrowly missed a 6-footer that would have pushed the playoff to a third hole.

The playoff capped a great tournament for Dickens and his Charlotte Country Day teammates. The Bucs, playing the Parkland Course , one of three 18-hole golf courses at Legends Resort in the first round and Tiger’s Eye at Ocean Ridge Plantation in the second, carded a team total of 605, good for a three-shot win over Forestview High School (608) in the Championship Flight.  Forsyth Country Day finished third with a total of 611.

The victory was Charlotte Country Day’s first of the season and its first at the Palmetto.

Clover (S.C.) High School shot a two-day total of 644 at Moorland and Panther’s Run to win the first flight, besting Arab (Ala.) High School by five shots. Greer (S.C.) High School’s Ryan Lynn won first flight medalist honors with a score of 150.

Turlock Christian (Calif.), playing at Heathland and Lion’s Paw, won the second flight with a score of 684. Mount Vernon (Mo.) High School was second at 694. Millville (N.J) High School’s Anthony Lofeck captured medalist honors in the second flight, shooting a 155.

The 14th annual Palmetto High School Golf Championship, a 54-hole, college style event, attracted 48 teams from 10 states for Myrtle Beach golf, including California. All 48 teams played a qualifying round on Thursday and were placed into one of three flights, based on their score, for the 36-hole finish.