Garland Green Season 2008-09

ClassSophomore
HometownTazewell, Va.

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“After playing sparingly last year, Garland really came into his own and had an outstanding summer. He carried this success into the fall season and led the team with a career-best fifth place finish at the Landfall Tradition.”

- Coach Jay Hardwick

Competed in three events in Fall 2008 … Led the Hokies with a career-best fifth-place finish in the Landfall Tradition … Team’s Most Dedicated Player award winner for the 2007-08 season … Appeared in two events in Spring 2008 … Best finish was 17th as an individual at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate … Competed in one event in Fall 2007 … Made the starting lineup in the first event of the year, the VCU Shootout, shooting an opening round 71 … Teamed with father, Charles, the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Player of the Year, to win the Pine Needles 12th Annual Parent-Child Championship in 2009 … Won the 2008 Pocahontas Amateur Champion with rounds of 66-66-69 … 2008 Graysburg Hills Amateur Champion … Quarter-finalist in the 2008 Virginia State Amateur … 2007 Allegheny Amateur champion … Runner-up in the 2007 Pocahontas Amateur and the W. Townes Lea Invitational … 2006 Virginia State Junior Match Play champion … Selected as a member of the Virginia/West Virginia and the Virginia/Carolinas Junior teams in 2006 … Finished 15th in the 2006 Scott Robertson Memorial … Four-year letterman at Tazewell High School … Four-year all-district and all-region selection … Finished seventh in the 2005 VHSL Group AA state championship … Regional champion as a senior … His sister, Carol, is a former VSGA Women’s Amateur champion and member of the LPGA Futures Tour … Attending Virginia Tech on the Edwin T. and Norma B. Robertson Scholarship … Majoring in consumer studies.