For most schools, a six-year championship drought is not particularly long, but for a program as dominant as Park City golf, it felt much longer.
The Miners had won 15 state championships prior to this year’s state tournament, 11 of which were won between 2008-2018. Park City had come up short in the years since but took advantage of its slim Day 1 lead to stay on top throughout Day 2 Thursday to take home the title again.
“It’s been a little drought, and these guys didn’t really know how it feels to win state and they haven’t seen other teams that came before them from Park City,” said Miners head coach George Murphy. “They got to experience it for themselves and I’m super happy for them.”
The Miners saw big improvements from Rawson Hardy, Sam Hunt and Forest Summers on Day 2. Summers struggled a bit in the back half on Wednesday with a double bogey on No. 11 and bogeys on Nos. 12, 13 and 15, but he cleaned things up Thursday, recording only one bogey while putting up three birdies to finish in a five-way tie for ninth at 143…