WINDSOR – Om Mathur persevered through an injured wrist, blustery weather, and a remarkably difficult course at RainDance National Resort & Golf to secure the 3A Boys Golf Individual State Championship.
 
Once the Peak to Peak junior sunk the clinching putt, which closed a stellar two-day performance and earned him a card of 3-over 147, he joyously ran up the hill to embrace his teammates and celebrate.
 
“This is huge for me,” Mathur said, soon after finding out he had won the state title. “I didn’t know if I was going to be able to compete out here. I injured my wrist after regionals, and I couldn’t hit any balls for a while after that. Out here, there were a lot of highs and a lot of lows. It was an up-and-down couple of days, but I feel I had some really solid rounds out there.”
 
Over the two rounds, Mathur finished with seven birdies and an eagle to become the first Peak to Peak Puma to win the 3A individual title since 2017, and the third overall. Mathur’s top-notch showing also helped the Pumas finish as runner-up, after shooting 43-over 475 as a team.
 
Despite the excellent performance from Mathur and Peak to Peak, host school Resurrection Christian ultimately won the day, as they finished with three different golfers in the top five.
 
Sophomore Jack Carter challenged Mathur throughout the second round for the individual title, but ultimately came up two strokes short, and tied Vail Mountain’s Stewie Bruce for second place, shooting 5-over 149. The Cougars’ own junior Graham Riggs, who shot 9-over 153 for the tournament, and sophomore Clint Summers, who shot 10-over 154, rounded out the top five, helping the team score a card of 24-over 456, as they comfortably won the 3A Boys Golf Team State Championship.
 
Resurrection Christian Boys Golf Head Coach Rick Meis was overcome with emotion, as his team accomplished the goal that had been at the front of their mind ever since they finished as runner-up a season ago – bringing Resurrection Christian its first-ever Boys Golf Team State Championship.
 
“I’m just so proud of these guys,” Coach Meis said. “I believe in leaving it up to them once the tournament starts. We’ll eat together, travel together, laugh together, and pray together, but once the tournament starts, I leave it up to them, and they delivered today. This is such an amazing group of kids.”
 
In third place, following the Pumas and the Cougars, were the Vail Mountain Gore Rangers, led by senior Stewie Bruce’s third-place finish. Meanwhile, the Kent Denver Sun Devils finished in fourth, shooting 58-over 490, thanks to seniors Carter Rapp and Lev Abramson both finishing in the top 10, shooting 16-over 160 and 16-over 161, respectively.
 
Thanks to shooting 15-over 159, Sixth-place individual finisher Rudiger Heitz helped guide Holy Family to a fifth-place team finish, closing out the top five teams.
 
Montezuma Cortez junior Vince Lopez, who 17-over 161 and tied for eighth with Abramson, also earned a medal, as did the five golfers who tied for 10^th by shooting 18-over 152 – D’Evelyn senior Taj Kumar, Sterling senior Will Bornhoft, Pagosa Springs sophomore Johnathon Smith, Liberty Common senior Ryan Woodley and Severance senior Ryan Ewoniuk.