Reilly shot a 5-under 67 to tie for the Division I crown
From a competitive standpoint, Logan Reilly prefers to win outright. But he’s also become accustomed to sharing a top honor. There’s no choice in that matter.
For the second straight spring season, the Bishop O’Connell Knights junior golfer was the co-champion of Virginia’s Division I private-school state high-school tournament. He won May 13 by carding an 18-hole score of 5-under-par 67 on the Williamsburg National Golf Club course.
Reilly shared the state crown with Xander Goboy of Catholic High School. He also shot 67, making a birdie on the final hole to tie Reilly. State-tournament rules do not allow for a playoff to determine a single individual champion.
A year ago, Reilly also shot 67 in the state tourney, but on a different course, to tie for the championship. He finished fourth as a freshman with a 1-under 70.
“I drove the ball pretty well, my putting was very good, but the best part of my game that day was my iron shots that put me in good position to make birdies,” Reilly said about this year’s state tourney.
His round included seven birdies, two bogeys and some eagle putts. He made three birdies and three pars on his final six holes.
A big par save came on the par-4 11th hole. After hitting his tee shot into an area with trees and bushes, Reilly chipped his second shot out of thick weeds backward onto the fairway. He then landed his third shot onto the green within six feet of the hole. Reilly made the par putt.
“That might have been the craziest par I’ve ever made,” Reilly said.
A few days earlier, the 17-year-old Auburn University golf commit finished second by a stroke in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament.
“I have been playing well,” Reilly said. “If I can control my tee shots, that allows me open shot to the pin.”
In non-high school golf, Reilly, a top nationally-ranked junior player, has put himself in position to qualify for the U.S. Open, held June 13-16 on the Pinehurst No. 2 course in North Carolina. He did so by tying for third with a 70 at a local U.S. Open qualifying event at a recent tourney in Maryland.
That advanced him to the final 18-hole national qualifying event, scheduled for June 3 at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md. He is one of the youngest qualifiers for the event, which will include multiple professional players also trying to earn a U.S. Open berth.
In early July, Reilly also will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Amateur tournament, held later this summer.
