Men's Golf News

Green Wins Camp Lejeune

Jacksonville, NC- The Oglethorpe University golf team came up just short in their quest to win their third Camp Lejeune Intercollegiate on Sunday, April 2^nd. Johnson and Wales college, the #1 ranked NAIA team in the nation from Miami FL, won the 35^th Annual Intercollegiate by eleven strokes over the Stormy Petrels in the 54 hole event.

Green, a senior from Jacksonville, FL, played the Par 72 Gold Course at Paradise Point Golf Club on the Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in an impressive four under par 68 opening round. Green was the only player of the 80 on the Gold course to break par on the 7000 yard Gold Course and held a four stroke lead after day one on the Championship course. On the Scarlet Course, a much shorter Par 70 track at Paradise Point Golf Club, the other half of the field was going low. Twenty two of the eighty players on the short course broke par in the perfect weather conditions. Johnson and Wales teammates John Stoltz and David Tabor lit up the course with rounds of 61 and 63 respectively on the Scarlet Course. Stoltz, the 2005 medalist at Camp Lejeune, set a new competitive record on the Scarlet with his five birdie, two eagle, nine under par performance. His teammate, Tabor, had seven birdies en route to a seven under par 63.

On Saturday the 16 teams who played the Gold Course switched to the shorter Scarlet Course and the other 16 moved to the Gold.

Green fired a six under par 64 on day two on his turn on the shorter side and was positioned with a three stroke lead after 36 holes in the race for medalist. Green’s two day total of 68-64 = 132 was leading Stoltz’s 61-74 = 135 by three, Rocky Manning of Greensboro and Colin Clark of Guilford by four, and Adam Horton of Methodist, Joseph Poplin of Guilford and Rhodes College’s John Jennison were all tied for 6^th at 138 for the two days.

On Sunday after the first 36 holes were completed, the top 16 teams played their last 18 holes on the Gold course in the Golf Championship and the bottom 16 teams played in the Scarlet Championship.

Paired together the last day were four of the top individual scores from the previous two days: Green at 132, Stoltz at 135, Horton at 138, and Clark at 137. Green played the front nine in one under par not allowing anyone close through the halfway point of the final day. Green bogeyed ten but bounced back with birdies on #13 and #14 to open up a big lead. Greensboro’s Rocky Manning played the back nine first and carded an impressive two under 34. He followed that up with an even par 36 on the front to close with a two under par 70, finishing second, two shots behind Green.

The U.S. Military Marine base at Camp Lejeune has one of the most unique awards in all of college golf. The winning team is presented with an authentic U.S. Marine sword and it’s wooden case. The medalist is also presented with an authentic sword and case.