Eighteen-year-old Nick Austin fired a 6-under 66 in grand fashion to lead the way after the first round of the 2009 Jefferson Cup tournament at Birdwood Golf Club.

It’s a two-horse race for the 19th annual Battle Trophy, symbolic of the Central Virginia Amateur Golfer of the Year, heading into the competition’s final event of the season, next month’s Jefferson Cup at Birdwood.

Mikey Moyers of Stanardsville and Jerry Burton of Charlottesville were each eliminated in Thursday’s second round of match play at Cedar Point Country Club.

Eighteen-year-old Mikey Moyers delivered his second consecutive round of 66 in the VSGA’s 96th State Amateur Championship at Cedar Point Country Club.
In doing so Wednesday, the Stanardsville resident set the championship’s 36-hole stroke play qualifying scoring record of 12-under 132.

Mikey Moyers and Brinson Paolini showed that being 18 years old means that you’re just too young to be tired.

Dustin Groves’ dramatic win in last Sunday’s Cannon Cup may have been one of a kind in Central Virginia golf.

Mikey Moyers arrived at his home golf course for Sunday’s final round of the Greene Hills Invitational with the hope of validating his victory in 2007 in front of his close friends and family.

To say that Mikey Moyers is familiar with the course at Greene Hills is putting it quite mildly.

When it came time to make a decision on where to attend college, Elizabeth Brightwell knew she didn’t want to go far from home.

Moyers’ two-day score of 15-under 127 shattered the Group AA record of 134 set in 1968 by Blacksburg’s Mark Long.

In the first of two rounds in the Group AA championship, Mikey Moyers gave himself significant wiggle room with his score of 6-under 65.

“When I bogeyed those two holes I didn’t think I was going to qualify for states,” Mikey Moyers said. “So I was a little worried.”

For the seventh year in a row, Western Albemarle walked away with the Jefferson District tournament title on Tuesday afternoon at Meadowcreek Golf Course. The Warriors’ top player, Patrick Leisure, fought off Monticello’s Kevin Archer in a playoff to win the individual crown.

In Gordonsville, Western Albemarle used a balanced effort to hold off Mikey Moyers and William Monroe in the Jefferson District Golf mini-match at Spring Creek Golf Club.

While the pressure may have nagged him, Moyers was able to overcome it, defeating Jack Wilkes 2-up at Birdwood Golf Course to become the first-ever repeat champion.