FORE-WARD!
Kelseyville High golf team holds first practice of 2021 campaign
Caden Prather (standing, left), Cory Holt and Lander Hockett (crouching) of the Kelseyville High School golf team read a putt on the ninth green Monday during the first day of practice for the 2021 season at Adam Springs Golf Course on Cobb Mountain. The Knights, six players strong for the upcoming year, will play most of their matches this season at either Adam Springs or Hidden Valley Lake. The Knights are one of three Lake County golf teams competing in the Coastal Mountain Conference, one that has undergone a handful changes since its last full season in 2019. Some of those are partly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic that wiped out most of the 2020 golf season, but not all. St. Vincent (Petaluma), the 10-time defending CMC South champion, left the CMC to join the North Bay League, depriving county golfers of two outstanding Petaluma venues in Rooster Run and Petaluma Country Club, and the loss of Meadowwood Country Club (St. Helena’s home course) to damage sustained in the Glass Fire in September of 2020 cost CMC South teams such as Kelseyville and Middletown another venue.
Yet another course, Foxtail in Rohnert Park, is also unavailable this year. According to longtime Kelseyville head coach John Berry, the CMC teams will compete in three different pods depending on location. The Lake/Napa pod includes Clear Lake, Kelseyville, Middletown and St. Helena. The conference will play eight matches beginning March 31 and running through May, followed by a CMC Championship, details of which are still being worked out.