Here is a call out high school coaches and players. I would love to give your players and teams some video coverage this spring and do a video story on a match or a feature story on your team or an individual player or prep golf issue, I’m your huckleberry. The stories will appear in the MiPrepZone part of the online newspaper and in this blog. Nothing would please me more than to arrange this ahead of time. You can call me Roy J. (Joe) Akers direct at 248-238-4449. I want to hear your story ideas and if you would like coverage of a match, contact me and we can arrange some coverage.
The high school boys prep golf season is in full swing and while the weather has been more fitting for Frosty the Snowman to go snowboarding than to shiver through nine holes of golf, the players are concentrating on taking home individual and team medals in June. The teams to beat this season are Birmingham Brother Rice, Novi Detroit Catholic Central and Lake Orion in the upper divisions and Oakland Christian, Detroit Country Day and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood in the lower divisions. While I mentioned the top three teams in each, there is enough depth in both divisions to see players and teams that have been shaping up their games to blossom and move up this list.
The individual player and it is tough to mention some players because inevitably you will leave out terrific names. While I will mention a few, coaches, by all means let me know if I have missed someone.
1. Francisco Ruffino (Soph.) Birmingham Seaholm- Arguably and the list is short to take this crown, he is the state’s best golfer. He was the top freshman last year and finished second individually at the Division 2 state tournament last year. He was voted all-state last year and made the super team and qualified for the U.S. Amateur last summer.
2. Nick Dennis (Sr.)- He is a senior for a team that has depth and is one of the state’s best and looks to lead Oakland County’s top ranked Oakland Press as written by Keith Dunlap. He, like Ruffino was voted to the all-state super team last year.
3. Sean Friel (Jr.)- Also from Brother Rice, was outstanding as a sophomore and is capable of shooting in the 60’s scratch as evidence of a 67 he shot under pressure in a regional tournament in 2010.
4. Charlie Green (Soph.) Novi Catholic Central- Have you noticed the top teams have the top players? Well Green as a freshman helped the NCC team win the Division 1 state title last spring. How good was Green? He shot under par both days of the state tournament.
5. Zach Preuss (Jr.) Auburn Hills Oakland Christian- I called his old stomping grounds only to find out he ended up at parts unknown and see he has settled at AOHC. Preuss golfed in Division 4 and won a title in that division and hopes to continue his success at his new address.
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