California (CGA/CIF) High School Boys Championships: Torrey Pines takes the team title
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF (June 8, 2011)
– Depth and consistency were the two
things that Torrey Pines head coach Chris
Drake used to describe his team, and those
proved to be two good things to have on
Wednesday.
The Torrey Pines Team played lights out in
the 2011 CIF High School Boys State
Championship at Poppy Hills GC, shattering the
previous state championship low score at
Poppy Hills by nine shots. Torrey Pines’
team score of 6-over 366 was nine better than
the 2005 score of 375.
“I have six guys that I got up here
that will shoot right around even.
They’re not going to go [way] under-
par,” said Drake, who further pointed
out that none of his players shot lower than
even par at the SoCals, but none shot worse
than 3-over par.
Torrey Pines was lead by Jay Hwang, the
soon to be UCLA Bruin, as he fired a 2-under
70. After making the turn at 1-over par Hwang
made three birdies on the back nine for the 70,
proving why he is the team’s number
one player. The other four scores that were
counted toward the team total were 73s by
Danny Ochoa and Ryan Burgess, a 74 by
Michael Kim and a 76 by Bobby Gojuangco.RL
Stevenson School was one of the first two
schools in and it looked as if the 375 it posted
might be enough for the Monterey Peninsula
school to steal away a title. The Stevenson
school located less than a mile away from
Poppy Hills took advantage of the
course’s proximity and it showed as all
six players shot in the 70s—the only
team to do so.“We definitely felt we had
a home course advantage,” said
standout Stevenson school freshman Seb
Crampton, who shot 74. “This course is
so narrow and the greens are really undulating;
we know these greens well.”Finishing
behind Torrey Pines and RL Stevenson in third
place was Foothill who shot 21-over 381.
Foothill was lead by Nicolo Galletti who shot 3-
under 69 tying for medalist honors with Scripps
Ranch’s Alexander Schauffele, only to
lose to Schauffele in a three-hole sudden-
death playoff.
Schauffele, the incoming Long Beach State
freshman, got off to a rough start bogeying
three of his first six holes. However, he holed
out from the fairway on the par 4 8th hole for
a rare eagle two, which got things going for
him the rest of the way out. He would add five
more birdies and just one bogey over the final
10 holes to get him into the playoff.
“After starting off at 3-over I was
just telling myself this was my last high school
tournament and I knew 3-over wasn’t
going to do it,” said Schauffele.
“I knew I had some par fives ahead, so I
told myself that I just needed to stay
patient.”
