The 2022 season of the Mount Vernon Junior League's golfing instruction and competitions ended with a scramble match of foursomes and awards presentations.
The eight weeks of action took place at the Vernon View Golf Course, 901 Beech St. in Mount Vernon, under the instruction and leadership of T.T. Crouch and Mount Vernon H.S. golf coach Anthony Savage. Crouch, former assistant golf coach at Mount Vernon Nazarene University and former PGA Canada Tour winner, has moved back to his alma mater – the Yellow Jackets – and will be working under Savage as Mount Vernon High School JV golf coach. He is also giving lessons full time at Chapel Hill Golf Course (TT Crouch Golf Instruction).
Crouch played community golf in Mount Vernon as a teenager, played golf for and graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 2010, and received a full scholarship to play golf at Florida Southern College, where he won back-to-back Division II national championships before turning pro. He won the Ohio Open in 2016 and was 2018 PGA Tour of Canada champion. He returns to instruct the next generation of Yellow Jackets golfers, and he tutored Junior golfers this summer.
He said, “I grew up playing Junior League, and I wanted kids to have the same experience I did.”
The season ended with a golf scramble for the 32 golfers who participated in league instruction/play this year. Leading Junior League golfer Austin Hammond's team won the scramble at a six-under-par 30. His teammates were Greyson Rutter, Cuyler Anderson, and Jett Mezie. Hammond had advanced to the top level – Level 6 – in league play, Rutter and Mezie were at Level 3, and Anderson was at Level 2. Hammond continued his league dominance, as during league competition, he was the overall winner playing at the highest level and scoring the lowest cumulative score for his level of 216.
The team of Hammond, Anderson, Mezie and Rutter won by two strokes over the team of Cooper Lowe, Justus Shaw, Jaydn Row and Jolie Cooper, who shot a four-under 32, as did the team of Luke Moore, Paxton Strouse, Wyatt Artrip and Brady Prettyman. Finishing in fourth place with a three-under 33 was the team of Ava Parker-Cuervo, Leo Bailey, Jack Scott and Trygg Waugh. In fifth was the team of Tanner Nutter, Cody Dapprich, Sutton Quinlivan and Madison Lauthers, who finished at two-under 34. A stroke back at 35, in sixth place, was the team of Blake Frazee, Tobias Burt, Colin Fox and Maddox Mezie. Two teams tied for seventh, with even par 36s. The team of Tyler Ing, Evan Palmer, Palmer Nesbit and Blake Irons tied with the team of Silas Bailey, Kenton Strouse, Alex White and Jillian Williams.
