Grayson County High School’s Jackson Mayes will be the first golfer in school history to compete in the KGCA All-State championship.
The tournament is only open to the top 15 teams and the top 21 individuals from across the state.
To qualify as an individual, golfers must accumulate points that are awarded at tournaments through the regular season. Mayes leads Grayson County with points in nine tournaments this year, including four second-place finishes.
“Jackson’s goal at the beginning of the season was to qualify for All-State,” head coach Tony Embry said. “We beefed up our schedule to play in as many tournaments as we could to help him attain the goal as well as get some of our young players, Ben Cummings, Trey Cook and Tyler Hodges some valuable experience. Our new senior Landon Haycraft had to hit the ground running in his first year in the sport. He has done extremely well. I think the mix of some new faces to the team as well as his fellow classmate Landon has helped Jackson in his quest.”
While Mayes is the first golfer to compete in the All-State competition that began in 2019, he now gets to join a strong group of Grayson County golfers to get wide recognition.
“Ron Layman, Jason Witten, Dana Langdon Newby, Lacy Vincent Cox and I know some others have been recognized for their accomplishments on the golf course,” Embry said. “Jackson has put in the work for this award. As a coach I am proud of him and speaking for his teammates, they are as well.”
The competition is set to begin on Saturday at the University Club of Kentucky in Lexington.
By Sam Gormley, Play-By-Play Announcer/Local Sports
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