Marshall County High School boy’s golf team traveled to Boots Randolph State Park golf course (par 72) in Cadiz, KY to participate in the “Best of The West” season opening tournament Friday. There were thirteen boy’s teams in the second year of this tournament.
The Marshals started their 2018 season with a second place finish in the tournament and were led by sophomore, Jay Nimmo who shot a score of 71 (1 under par) which earned him medalist honors for the tournament.
Husten Lancaster of Mayfield was the second place individual with a score of 72. There was a three-way tie for the third place individual, Collier Curd, Bowling Green; Clark McDougal, Bowling Green and Grant Puckett of Webster County al shot 74.
Behind Nimmo’s 71, Camdyn McLeod shot 77, Tyler Powell 79, Nathan Clark 87 and Drake Butler 89 for a team score of 314.
Bowling Green won the tournament with a team score of 310, followed by Marshall County’s 314 and third went to Greenwood “A” with 324 in a field of 13 teams.
“It was a good start to our 2018 season”, Head Coach Keith Bell said. “I know and our players know that we have better scores within our team. We felt like we were capable of winning this tournament this year. I think nerves had an impact with some of the players and that comes at no surprise early in the season. I thought we putted well as a team in this tournament and we’ll continue to work on our short game and putting throughout the season.”
Coach Bell said Nimmo played great especially considering he had played competitive rounds of golf the past six days coming into this event and is looking forward to a couple of days of rest and then back at it on Monday morning in Owensboro. The Marshals will play in the Owensboro Catholic Invitational at Owensboro Country Club.
They will follow the Owensboro tournament up with a tournament on Tuesday in Bowling Green at the Gator Invitational Tournament then play a third straight day on Wednesday at the Kentucky Cup at the University Club of Kentucky in Lexington.