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Golfer Dave Boslough is 8-1 for Lackawanna Trail, going into the Lions’ match against Mountain View High School today, Wednesday, Sept. 22.
Photo Courtesy of Alice Stuffle
TUNNEL HILL- With almost a lifetime of experience on the links, Lackawanna Trail High School golfer Dave Boslough is on course to finish his high school career at the top of his game.
The 17-year-old Dalton resident improved to a record of 8-1 after defeating Steve Frye in the Lions’ 8-1 win over Susquehanna Friday, Sept. 17.
With only two matches remaining in the season, Boslough is in position to beat, or tie, his record of 9-2 from last year.
His current success is no accident. It’s the payback from spending years learning the game.
“My grandpa (Robin Fogarty) started me when I was four,” said Boslough.
“I always used to hit balls with my dad’s clubs in the backyard, and one day he just took me to the course and I took it up.”
While he began playing golf at a young age, Boslough said he started to take the game seriously in high school.
He began earning attention as one of the league’s top golfers almost immediately. He was voted a second-team all-star his sophomore year, and a first-team all-star last year his junior year, by the other coaches in the league. He qualified for districts both years, and finished in the top 15 his sophomore year, earning a chance to compete for a spot in the regional tournament.
Boslough said one of the goals he has set for himself this year is to advance past districts and earn a spot in regionals, and then possibly the state tournament. After watching him play this season, head coach Harry Powell is confident Boslough has the talent to possibly achieve his goal.
“He should repeat as a first-team all-star, and he certainly has a chance, with the two years experience in the district tournaments, that I would hope he would make it to regionals,” said Powell.
Powell also feels the experience Boslough has gained at districts should give him an edge over some of his competition.
“At districts they play 18 holes, the top 15 play nine more, and that’s what he did two years ago,” said Powell.
“So he has that experience of going through that 27 holes.”
Of the 15 golfers competing, the top six move on to regionals. Time will tell whether Boslough will be among the elite six.
But if he doesn’t, it won’t mean the end of his competitive golf career. Boslough said he is looking at several colleges with golf teams so he can continue to compete.
He added that he hopes to enroll in a school in the south so he can play all year.
Boslough is the son of Leslie and David Boslough.