The Midland Christian boys golf team went into the TAPPS 5A State Tournament as an underdog and the Mustangs came away as state champions.<\/p>\n
Midland Christian captured its first state title in boys golf since 2017 with a 10-stroke victory at Squaw Valley Golf Course in Glen Rose on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs finished with a 287-287\u2014574 total to finish ahead of Fort Worth All Saints (298-286\u2014584). Monsignor Kelly (298-290–588) finished third.<\/p>\n
MCS was led by junior Bridger Wilson, who won the medalist title with a 68-68\u2014136 total. Senior and Midland College signee Mason Leary (73-71\u2014144) tied for ninth to earn all-state honors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty cool this year,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe got two new guys this year and they really made a difference. We were kind of like the underdog going in, we were not predicted to win. But we made it happen, which is awesome, incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also, for the Mustangs, Brody McHugh shot 73-73\u2014146; Jackson Griffin shot 73-75\u2014148; and Ethan Newsom fired an 81-76\u2014157 total.<\/p>\n
MCS coach Chris Jauz said this title means a lot because he believes that Class 5A is the toughest classification in TAPPS.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had to beat a lot of good golfers here to win the state tournament,\u201d Jauz said. \u201cThe biggest thing is we beat All Saints. All Saints had beaten us at district and regionals, and that was the kind of a goal of (the Mustangs) this year, to beat All Saints. They set a lot goals this year and they accomplished a lot of things. I\u2019m really proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mustangs went into the final round with a six-stroke lead and Jauz said his team got off to a shaky start on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Jauz said Wilson helped to set the tone with his strong play.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shot 4-under on the front and the other guys responded to it early on and turned it around after five or six holes,\u201d Jauz said. \u201cThey started to play the way they could play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Wilson, \u201cWe talked about it as a team and we\u2019re just going to attack, we weren\u2019t just going to play defense. We just went into today and tried and shoot as low as we possibly could and try to get a bigger lead instead of trying to preserve the lead. We tried to do what what we could and whatever happens, happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jauz said Wilson was exceptional at the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo shoot 4-under both days, that\u2019s a testament to how much work he\u2019s put in,\u201d he said. \u201cHis putting was phenomenal. He made clutch putt after clutch putt and when he did have something negative, he always responded in a positive way. He\u2019s done a ton as a golfer and I couldn\u2019t be happier for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Wilson about his play, \u201cMy putter was hot. I practiced putting a lot just a day before we left and I was trying to focus on drives and keeping it in play, and that really helped a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the girls\u2019 side, MCS sophomore Addi Wright finished in 10th place with an 83-77\u2014160 total to earn all-state honors for a second straight year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Midland Christian boys golf team went into the TAPPS 5A State Tournament as an underdog and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3029],"tags":[6492,3151],"class_list":["post-60860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wilson-golf","tag-pubnow","tag-wilson-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}