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Around The Commonwealth
Tournament Recaps

Season Swings Into Action

Compiled by CHRIS LANG
CHRIS LANG

After an unseasonably cold winter that featured a foot of snow in Virginia Beach and generally poor golf weather throughout Virginia, players were eager to shake off the rust and get back to competition. The season officially began at the end of March with the MAPGA and VSGA co-branded Junior Four-Ball Championship, and it will end in October with the Captain’ s Putter Matches and Mid-Atlantic Junior Invitational.

In between, look for familiar faces to recapture glory and for new faces to emerge. Logan Reilly was the star of the summer in 2024, winning both the State Open of Virginia and VSGA Amateur. Who will be the breakout star of 2025?
7TH VSGA MULTI-FORMAT TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Winners: Will Collins and Kyle Bailey( Keswick Club)
Will Collins and Kyle Bailey.
April showers turned this season-opening men’ s championship from a multi- to a mono-format event, as the opening round of two-person captain’ s choice was rained out. That left players to negotiate the tricky modified alternate-shot format with no competitive warm-up. Three sides managed to shoot even-par
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