2004-2005 Varsity Golf

About the Coach: Tom Kates

"There's no tougher sport than golf. You're all alone and no one can help you. In hockey, football, soccer, or lacrosse, you always got someone to bail you out, but you hit one bad shot in golf and that could be it." (Bobby Orr)

Kent School offers a Varsity and Junior Varsity coed golf program focusing on developing the skills of the individual player as well as providing excellent team/match competition. During the spring season dual, tri and quad-matches are played weekly on such challenging, historic courses as Taconic Golf Course at Williams College and the Golf Course at Yale University. Kent School's home course is the beautiful Silo Ridge Country Club course in Amenia, NY. This 18 hole, par 72, 6,763-yard course has a USGA rating 71.8/slope 135.

In his 4 th season as Varsity Golf Head Coach, Tom Kates has made Kent's golf program competitive in the 9-school Founders' League. In 2002 Kent's overall record was 19-7, led by Captain Brendon Ray, '02, who matriculated at Rollins College in Florida, the 2002 NCAA Division II Interscholastic golf champion. In 2004 Kent's team has been lead by senior Captain Alden Cook, '04 and his brother Ben Cook, '06 of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Both Cook brothers have earned individual match medallist honors this spring and Ben's score of 82 posted at the Taconic GC in late April was the overall match medallist of the 24 Kent, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, and Berkshire golfers.