Whittern fires 64 to lead Piedmont to title; KHS girls finish 11th overall
Whittern fires 64 to lead Piedmont to title; KHS girls finish 11th overall![KINGFISHER got an 89 from both Layla Kroener, left, and Addison Johnson, right, in Wednesday’s home golf tournament. Both are pictured watching chip shots on the par-5 10th hole during the tournament. [KT&FP Staff Photos]](https://www.kingfisherpress.net/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/article400/public/4ad28308b6_Ar00202008.jpg?itok=PogQFfST "KINGFISHER got an 89 from both Layla Kroener, left, and Addison Johnson, right, in Wednesday’s home golf tournament. Both are pictured watching chip shots on the par-5 10th hole during the tournament. [KT&FP Staff Photos]")
KINGFISHER got an 89 from both Layla Kroener, left, and Addison Johnson, right, in Wednesday’s home golf tournament. Both are pictured watching chip shots on the par-5 10th hole during the tournament. [KT&FP Staff Photos]
A record-breaking round led Piedmont to the team title of Wednesday’s Kingfi sher Large-School Girls Invitational golf tournament.
Sophie Whittern carded an 8-under-par 64 to win medalist honors at Kingfisher Golf Course.
The junior’s round is the lowest in the tournament’s history.
Whittern led Piedmont to a 300 team score using the Maxwell system (which counts the team’s four lowest scores each hole as opposed to the four lowest rounds overall).
That edged Plainview by a single stroke while Perkins- Tryon was third with a 312.
Kingfisher finished 11th in the field of 16 with a 371 while Cashion was 15th with a 425.
Whittern had just one bogey in her round. That was countered by seven birdies and an eagle.
She had six birdies - including five straight from holes 11 through 15 - on the back-nine and then she eagled the first hole, which is a par-5 for females.
Whittern’s round won by seven strokes, but wasn’t the only one under-par.
Gabriella Gross of Heri-tage Hall and Gracie Bryant of Plainview each shot a 71. Gross got second on a scorecard playoff and Bryant was third.
Other medalists were Bethany’s Drew Jacobson, fourth with a 73, and Perkins-Tryon’s Ellie Aldridge, who was one stroke back and got fifth.
Addison Johnson and Layla Kroener led the Lady Jackets’ quartet.
Both fired off 89s while Ryan Scammahorn shot a 92.
Callie Blair turned in a 101 as she continues her first season of golf.
KHS shot 371 as a team. Kyndal Isom led Cashion’s four-person team with a 97 while Molly Mayes carded a 99.
Ashlynn Graham shot a 110 and Kamryn Isom a 119.
Cashion finished with a 425.