Hokie ClubARLINGTON, Va. - Virginia Tech golfer Mikey Moyers has been named the 2009 Virginia State Golf Association’s Junior Boy of the Year, as announced at the VSGA’s annual meeting at Washington Golf and Country Club this weekend.
Moyers, a freshman from Standardsville, Va., won an unprecedented third VSGA Junior Match Play title in 2009. With the victory, he became only the second golfer to have his name on a VSGA junior title three times (Blackstone’s Cameron Yancey won the VSGA Junior in 1995 and claimed both the Junior Match and the Junior Amateur one year later).
In winning the Junior Match Play Championship, Moyers claimed four matches in two days and played a combined 37 holes leading up to the championship final. Moyers also established the VSGA State Amateur Championship’s 36-hole stroke-play qualifying scoring record of 12-under 132 at Cedar Point Country Club in Suffolk. Moyers’ to-par total was an event-best mark for 36-hole qualifying and he advanced to the second round of match play at the event.
Moyers also won the Virginia High School League AA individual title in the Fall of 2008. A longtime participant on the squad, Moyers helped the Virginias team to victory at the Virginias-Carolinas Junior Matches for its third-straight win in the series.
Also at the meeting, Scott Shingler of Haymarket was named golfer of the year for the first time, and 2009 U.S. Senior Amateur Champion Vinny Giles of Richmond was the recipient of senior golfer of the year accolades.