SLUH repeats as Class 5 boys golf team state champion by 1 shot. 'We count on each other.'

Steve Overbey | Post-Dispatch
May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026
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SLUH sophomore Ivan Kennedy lines up a putt during the Class 5 boys golf state championship on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at the Country Club of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Kennedy shot 74 to help the Junior Billikens repeat as the event's team champion.
Paul Halfacre, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Steve Overbey | Post-Dispatch

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Harrison Zipfel certainly has had a better round of golf.

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