3A boys golf: Resurrection Christian's Summers, Vail Mountain, lead crowded day 1 leaderboard - Colorado High School Activities Association

DENVER — There is an old adage in golf that states that you can’t win the state tournament on the first day, but you sure can lose it.

And on Monday at the Class 3A state tournament at Pinehurst Country Club’s Maxwell Course, Resurrection Christian freshman Clint Summers did everything he could — both individually and for his Cougars team — to be right in the mix on Tuesday.

Summers was the only player in red figures, firing a 1-under par 69 on the 6,500 yard par 70 layout and will sleep on a one shot lead over Montezuma-Cortez’s Thayer Plewe and two over Holy Family’s Rudi Heitz and Liberty Common’s Ryan Woodley.

“I didn’t want to be over par and I just wanted to be around first,” said Summers, whose Resurrection Christian team (223) sits two shots behind Day 1 team leader Vail Mountain (221). “I was checking the team score the entire round and our team didn’t play the best today, but we will be there tomorrow. We will figure it out.”

Vail Mountain got 3-over 73’s from junior Stewie Bruce and senior Felix Gruner and a 75 from junior Tiki Jaffe to take the Day 1 lead.

As for Summers, it was just a steady day around Pinehurst. His card was a thing of beauty with 15 pars, two birdies and just one bogey.

And stepping on Pinehurst must have felt simple after training/practicing and playing a majority of their season at the beautiful new RainDance Resort in Windsor — arguably one of the toughest courses in the state and the longest at 8,400 yard from the back tees.

“RainDance kind of perfects your game and if you can get that course down, then you can get anything down and it has really helped me out,” said Summers, who is prepared to make the field chase him tomorrow. “I just can’t put too much pressure on myself and just play my game, play normally and almost make it like a practice round.”

Plewe, who finished runner-up last season in Elizabeth at Spring Valley Golf Course, had three birdies and three bogies to finish at even par.

Heitz played his way into the final group with a birdie on the par 16th to shoot his 1-over 71.

Woodley had things cooking early and after 10 holes looked like he might run away and hide from the field at 4-under. But a bogey on the 11th and a quadruple bogey on 13 brought him back to the field. He got back to even with a birdie on 16, but gave it right back with a bogey on 17.

In all there are 10 players within four shots of the lead and that should make for a thrilling final day chase for the title. Likewise on the team side, where only 13 shots separate the top eight teams.

FULL DAY 1 RESULTS

Pos	Team	Overall
1	Vail Mountain	221
2	Resurrection Christian	223
3	Colorado Academy	227
4	Peak to Peak	230
5	Aspen	231
6	Kent Denver	232
7	Basalt	233
8	Holy Family	234
9	Montezuma Cortez	240
10	Monte Vista	245
11	Pagosa Springs	251
12	Fowler	294

Pos	TM	Player	Grade	Overall
1	Resurrection Christian	Clint Summers	FR	69
2	Montezuma Cortez	Thayer Plewe	SR	70
3	Holy Family	Rudiger Heitz	JR	71
3	Liberty Common	Ryan Woodley	JR	71
5	Aspen	Carson Miller	SR	72
5	Basalt	Garrett Exelbert	JR	72
7	Vail Mountain	Stewie Bruce	JR	73
7	Colorado Academy	TJ Giordano	SR	73
7	D’Evelyn	Taj Kumar	JR	73
7	Vail Mountain	Felix Gruner	SR	73
11	Vail Mountain	Tiki Jaffe	JR	75
11	Liberty Common	Michael Woodley	FR	75
11	Severance	Brycen Farris	SR	75
14	Resurrection Christian	Jack Carter	FR	76
14	Peak to Peak	Jack Brayman	FR	76
14	Severance	Ryan Ewoniuk	JR	76
14	Peak to Peak	Jack Winter	JR	76
18	Kent Denver	Jackson Martorello	SR	77
18	Aspen	Sky Sosna	SR	77
18	Kent Denver	Carter Rapp	JR	77
18	Colorado Academy	J.T. Timmers	SR	77
18	Colorado Academy	Colgin Youssi	JR	77
18	Sterling	Ethan Thyne	SO	77
18	Eaton	Peyton Walker	JR	77
18	Monte Vista	Kaden Mellott	SO	77
18	Golden View Classical Academy	Cooper Urbas	JR	77
27	Resurrection Christian	Micah Livingstone	FR	78
27	Las Animas	Damien Baca	SO	78
27	Kent Denver	Ben Ramsden-Wood	SR	78
27	Peak to Peak	Om Mathur	SO	78
31	Resurrection Christian	Gage Meis	SR	79
31	Colorado Academy	Corbin Bank	SR	79
31	Montezuma Cortez	Vince Lopez	SO	79
31	Holy Family	Drake Krommenhoek	JR	79
31	Salida	Aiden Hadley	SR	79
36	Basalt	Jase Joslin	JR	80
36	Kent Denver	Luke Fisher	JR	80
38	Basalt	Jackson Stewart	SO	81
39	Moffat County	Aron Jennings	JR	82
39	Aspen	Ryan Rigney	SO	82
39	Bishop Machebeuf	Sean McGarrity	SR	82
39	Pagosa Springs	johnathon smith	FR	82
39	Frontier Academy	Christian Arguello	FR	82
39	Limon	Landon Nestor	JR	82
45	Woodland Park	Tanner McAfee	SR	83
45	Pagosa Springs	Kaison Clifford	SR	83
45	Monte Vista	Liam Ellithorpe	SO	83
45	Swink	Nick Paolucci	SO	83
45	Holyoke	Ty Dirks	SR	83
45	Vail Mountain	Hunter Salani	SR	83
51	Salida	Eric O’Connor	SR	84
51	Holy Family	Wiley St. Germain	JR	84
51	Wray	Corbin Sprague	SO	84
51	Gunnison	Mason Weitman	SO	84
51	Eaton	Cache Sanger	SR	84
51	Basalt	Alec Claassen	JR	84
51	Holy Family	Ty Bairrington	JR	84
51	Vanguard	Eshan Jain	SO	84
59	Monte Vista	Ryker Anderson	JR	85
59	Aspen	Peter DeWetter	SR	85
59	D’Evelyn	Graham Truesdel	JR	85
59	Frontier Academy	Daniel Wyperd	JR	85
63	Pagosa Springs	Braylon Cotts	SR	86
63	Dawson	Jimmy Leuchten	JR	86
65	Del Norte	Ben Parra	SR	87
65	Peak to Peak	George Grady	JR	87
67	Bishop Machebeuf	Landon Sulser	SO	89
68	Prospect Ridge	Adam Rolander	JR	90
68	SkyView Academy	Joshua Reeves	SO	90
68	Manitou Springs	Jack Clifford	JR	90
71	Fowler	Blake Buchner	SR	91
71	Montezuma Cortez	Kaden Huff	JR	91
71	Montezuma Cortez	Airoughn VanGrandt	JR	91
71	Jefferson Academy	Jack McLucas	SR	91
75	Buena Vista	Elio Rizzi	JR	92
76	Colorado Springs Christian	Owen Albrecht	SO	93
77	Vail Christian	Austin Reyna	SO	97
77	Vail Christian	Jack Hughes	JR	97
79	Buena Vista	Otto Rizzi	SR	98
80	Fowler	Harrison Proctor	JR	99
81	Fowler	Hagen McCuistion	SO	104
82	SkyView Academy	Ryan Carr	SO	110
83	Dawson	Peter Ernst	SO	113
84	La Junta	Steven Salas	SR	129