Trevor White medalist at Bulldog Invite; Comets place 3rd

By John Burbridge

sports@charlescitypress.com

HAMPTON — If the sun is up, Trevor White is out on the golf course.

“I play every day,” the Charles City junior said.

When the sun is down, White is sometimes still out on the golf course.

“That was just for fun,” White said of playing in a night golf event in Greene that employed fluorescent balls. “Doesn’t really help your game … just different.”

It’s nice to break up the monotony every once in a while. And so far this golf season, things have become reruns of days before for White when it comes to earning first-place medalist honors.

It’s likely reaching double-digits if not already. Even White has lost count himself.

Saturday’s Hampton-Dumont-CAL Bulldog Invitational at Hampton Country Club added to the total as White’s 18-hole score of 82 bettered runner-up Will Sackville of HDC by 3 strokes.

Charles City junior Hunter Sullivan was also under triple-digits (96) while placing in the Top 10 for the Comets; but with the Bulldogs placing four in the Top 5 with Sackville, Tommy Birdsell (87), Tucker Heeren (87) and Riley Heeren (90), their 349 team score was well ahead of runner-up Iowa Falls-Alden (383), and third-place Charles City (385), which also carded scores from Jaxon Houdek (103) and Calvin Hansen (104).

North Butler placed fourth (391) in the six-team tournament with Mitchell Staudt and Dylan Shirah posting scores of 91 for co-sixth place individual honors.

The day before during a Northeast Iowa Conference dual meet against Waukon at Waukon Country Club, White matched his lowest 9-hole score of the season with a 2-over 36 for medalist honors.

With Hanson (44), Houdek (45) and Kaleb Cotton (46) rounding out the Comet scores, Charles City’s 171 was 19 strokes better than the Indians paced by Dylan Hogan and Ethan O’Neill, who both shot 45s.

You can make a double-down Rodney Dangerfield bet that White’s scores are going to get even lower in the future.

“I’m playing well this season,” said White, an All-NEIC golfer as a freshman. “I just need to hit my putts harder.”