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With an optimistic start to the fall, it seemed appropriate that Coach Sean Kennedy and the Illinois Central College Men's Golf team were tasked with ending the run being made by long-time region foe Parkland. The task was to be made on the championship-caliber course that is the Atkins Golf Club, and with the Heartland Hawks banging down the door as well, it certainly wouldn't be easy.
Alas, Peyton Woods played a stellar tournament, getting a 70 or better in both rounds, and the team bested Heartland by three strokes, Parkland by seven strokes, all to bring the MWAC Men's Golf Title back to East Peoria for the first time in eight years. Woods would birdie on six holes in his first round, and impressively do so on four consecutive holes, the par-4 8th, par-3 9th, par-4 10th, and par-5 11th. With only two bogeys on the card for that opening round, it would equal a sub round - 68 to be exact.
Woods took the momentum from that -4 first round and ran with it in his second round as well, of the seven holes between the par-5 6th and par-4 12th, he would birdie five of them, all adding up to 11 birdies overall.
Woods would birdie the 6th, 8th, 10th, and 11th holes in both rounds to take home medalist honors as the Individual MWAC Champion. Peyton won the tournament at the University of Notre Dame last fall. He fired two sub rounds to close out Nationals last spring securing a Top 10 finish for the Cougars. Monday, he wins the conference title. I couldn't be more proud of him. Boecker would birdie four times in his first round, and three times in his second round to hit a perfect even par for the event.
