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

The leader in the Battle Trophy race halfway through this year’s competition won’t be hanging around to try for a three-peat.

With all that behind him, Little launches his career as a professional golfer in today’s Richmond Open, a three-day, 54-hole stroke play event on the eGolf Tour.

Dan Hosek, of slight build, joked that the Farmington sports coat that is traditionally presented ala The Masters style, was a “little big.”

The questionable strategy was good enough to keep Kane in contention for today’s final round of one of the state’s oldest golf tournaments, one shot off the lead.

The absence of Decker — considered by most to be the premier amateur golfer in the state — may take some of the glitter from the 147-man field, but there are plenty of top-notch competitors dying to try on the green champion’s jacket just before dusk on Sunday.

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

While Nick Little has cleaned up in local golf tournament championships over the past couple of years, there’s one trophy missing from his case.

After capturing back-to-back Battle Trophy championships and winning every local tournament that he entered this summer, local golf fans wondered just what Nick Little was going to do for an encore.

The best amateur golfers in Central Virginia discovered something during Saturday’s first two rounds of the area’s match play championship at Spring Creek Golf Club: there’s no free lunches.

The top six seeds from this year’s Battle Trophy list and three of last year’s four semifinalists return for the second annual Central Virginia Match Play Championships this weekend at Spring Creek Golf Club.

With his come-from-behind victory in the Jefferson Cup Invitational golf tournament at Birdwood over the weekend, Nick Little blew away the competition for the top spot in the 2008 Battle Trophy competition’s final standings.

It seems that if Nick Little is participating in a local golf event you can just about be certain that he’ll be walking away with the hardware.

Little, who has dominated Central Virginia amateur golf for the past two years, will lead the field heading into today’s 54-hole annual Jefferson Cup Invitational at Birdwood Golf Club. It is one of only two local tournaments that Little hasn’t won.

The Old Trail ‘A’ team took the team title, beating second-place Glenmore by 33 shots behind Little’s 16-under and Jeff Toms’ 1-under performance.