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Golf

High School State Team & Individual Champions
1923 East Providence - Levine (East Providence)
1924 N/A
1925 N/A
1926 N/A
1927 N/A
1928 East Providence*
1929 N/A - John Burke (Rogers)
1930 N/A  - Charles Pettijohn (Portsmouth Priory)
1931 Rogers - Irving Patterson (North Kingstown)
1932 Pawtucket - Irving Patterson (N Kingstown)
1933 Rogers - N/A
1934 Barrington - N/A
1935 Barrington - N/A
​1936 Barrington - N/A
1937 East Providence - N/A
1938 La Salle - John Beradi (Barrington)
1939 La Salle - John Mallghan (La Salle)
1940 West Warwick - Francis Partridge (St. Raphael)
1941 Aldrich - Stan Koslowski (St. Raphael)
1942 St. Raphael - Stan Koslowski (St. Raphael)
1943-1945: No Golf
1946 Barrington - Ralph Carson (St. Georges)
1947 Pawtucket East - N/A
1948 West Warwick - N/A
1949 West Warwick - Alec Genovesi (Barrington)
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​The Ocean State's rich history in golf goes back to the 19th century.  Newport Country Club is a historic private golf club located in Newport was founded in 1893.  It hosted both the first U.S. Amateur Championship and the first U.S. Open in 1895.  Agawam’s first golf course was designed and built in 1895 by Willie Park, Jr. of Musselburgh, Scotland.  The Metacomet Country Club was a private golf club in East Providence.  As for the name, Metacomet, it was the fashion at the turn of the 20th century for golf clubs organizing in New England to select Native American names.  Metacomet was a great Indian Chief of the Wampanoag Tribe, a friend of the Pilgrim settlers of the 17th century who was later named King Philip by the English after he succeeded his father as leader of the Wampanoag tribe.  RICC was founded in 1911 by a group of Providence businessmen designed by Donald Ross.  The Wannamoisett Country Club is a private golf course located in Rumford, Rhode Island.  The course was also designed by Donald Ross in 1914 and played host to the 1931 PGA Championship and hosts the prestigious Northeast Amateur every year. 

Some prominent Rhode Island golfers of the era include John P. Burke who was hailed as the most talented player ever produced in the state when he began competing in the 1930s.  He twice won the R.I. Junior Championship, the first at age 15.  In that same stretch, he also won the State Open in 1936 and 1938, making him as one of only four players in state history to win the Junior, Amateur and Open.  Daniel Fairchild was hailed as "the Boy Wonder" when he won his first State Amateur in 1907 at age 16, making him the youngest person ever to do so, a record that stands to this day and he went on to win the Amateur six times.  Woman golfers in Rhode Island included Elizabeth Gordon who won six RIWGA Amateur Championships including five straight from 1916-1920.  Elizabeth’s sister, Margaret, was also a fine player, winning the RIWGA Championship in 1925 and 1926.  Elizabeth went on to resign her amateur status in 1925 to become perhaps the first female club professional in America.  Glenna Collett Vare of Narragansett was one of the first great women players in the United States.  She was dubbed the "Queen of American Golf" as she dominated women’s competition in the 1920s and 1930s.  She went on to play competitively for more than 70 years.  She was among the six charter members of the women’s Golf Hall of Fame.  She won six U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships.   Jean Bauer of Providence was a 3 time R.I. State Golf Champion (1941-43) and 2 time medalist in the USGA National Amateur Championship.  Golf was first introduced to high schools in 1923 with Technical, Classical, Commercial, Cranston, Rogers, East Providence and Hope playing on Metacomet, Wannamoisset and Agawan Hunt course.  They competed for the Kenworthy Trophy.  In 1932 an Interscholastic Golf League was formed.
State Amateur Champions
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Mens
Womens
1902 Eben Byers
1903 N. Stuart Campbell
1904 C. Douglas Mercer
1905 G.A. Pope, Jr.
1906 G.A. Pope, Jr.
1907 Daniel Fairchild
1908 A.S. Vennerbeck
1909 Daniel Fairchild
1910 Harry E. Kenworthy
1911 C.H. Gardner
1912 Harry E. Kenworthy
1913 Ralph H. Hovey
1914 C.H. Gardner
1915 Harry E. Kenworthy
1916 Daniel Fairchild
1917 N. Stuart Campbell
1918 Daniel Fairchild
1919 Daniel Fairchild
1920 Frederick M. Hancock
1921 Daniel Fairchild
1922 Frank McBride
1923 R.D. Rooks
1924 John A. Gammons
1925 Guy Mayer
1926 Frederick M. Hancock
1927 Henry M. Gartner
1928 Brad F. Oxnard
1929 Joseph Pezzullo
1930 T.S. Tailer, Jr.
1931 T.S. Tailer, Jr.
1932 Brad F. Oxnard
1933 Mike Bobel
1934 John P. Burke
1935 John P. Burke
1936 John P. Burke
1937 C.H. Edward
1938 John P. Burke
1939 Charles B. Round
1940 J.R. Lenahan
1941 Samuel Neild, Jr.
1942-45  WWII
1946 Stan Koslowski
1947 Stan Koslowski
1948 Fred Campanelli
1949 Robert W. Allen


1916 – Elizabeth Gordon
1917 – Elizabeth Gordon
1918 – Elizabeth Gordon
1919 – Elizabeth Gordon
1920 – Elizabeth Gordon
1921 – Glenna Collett
1922 – Mary Arthur
1923 – Isobel Harris
1924 – Elizabeth Gordon
1925 – Margaret Gordon
1926 – Margaret Gordon
1927 – Isobel Harris Rice
1928 – Isobel Harris Rice
1929 – Virginia Bentworthy
1930 – Victoria Eynon
1931 – Barbara Davis
1932 – Helen Waterhouse



1933 – Helen Waterhouse
1934 – Barbara Davis
1935 – Barbara Davis
1936 – Barbara Davis
1937 – Helen Waterhouse
1938 – Helen Waterhouse
1939 – Helen Waterhouse
1940 – Jean Bauer
1941 – Jean Bauer
1942 – Jean Bauer
1943-45 WWII
1946 – Valeska Morphet
1947 – Barbara Davis
1948 – Betty Jean Hulteng
1949 – Betty Jean Hulteng
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