A.C. Flora varsity boys golf team wins state championship

PHOTO: A.C. Flora High School’s boys varsity golf team won the Class AAAA state championship May 14 at the Rose Hill Golf Club in Bluffton. From left to right are: Head Varsity Boys Golf Coach Robert Dargan, junior James Rhodes, junior Charles Cauthen, senior and team captain Thomas Lamar, senior and team captain Coleman Ferguson, freshman Owen Atkinson, sophomore William Milliken, junior James Sullivan, Coach Harrison Vance and Coach Mark Elam.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– The A.C. Flora High School’s boys varsity golf team are the Class AAAA state champs after a win on Tuesday in Bluffton.

The team had a score of 589 for two rounds, the lowest of the 16 schools competing in the championship on Tuesday, May 14, at the Rose Hill Golf Club in Bluffton.

District officials say this is the boys varsity golf team’s 17th state championship win and the sixth for Head Coach Robert Dargan.

Dargan, who is retiring at the end of this school year after 10 years of coaching A.C. Flora’s boys varsity golf team and 12 years of coaching A.C. Flora’s girls varsity golf team, says he sees the boys on the team as his sons.

“The team feels great about it. They expected to win. They prepared like they were going to win. The reason we won was because of the preparation they did. The amount of work the boys did, even when it was 35 or 40 degrees outside, this win was what they worked for,” says Coach Dargan.