Golf: Burritt wins women’s Met championship

Alyssa Burritt, of Bellbrook, hits a shot from the fairway during Division I district boys and girls golf tournaments at Weatherwax Golf Course in Madison Twp. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. E.L. Hubbard/CONTRIBUTED

Alyssa Burritt, of Bellbrook, hits a shot from the fairway during Division I district boys and girls golf tournaments at Weatherwax Golf Course in Madison Twp. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. E.L. Hubbard/CONTRIBUTED

When you hear that Alyssa Burritt played on the boys golf team at Bellbrook High School, you might expect to see something other than a girl who is 5-foot-2 and weighs about 120 pounds.

Those are the dimensions of the extraordinary young lady who won her second straight Miami Valley Metropolitan Women’s Championship last week at Sugar Valley Country Club.

Burritt, who will soon begin her junior year at the University of Cincinnati, won the 54-hole Metro by seven strokes over runner-up Ellie Cronin of the University of Dayton. That was seven strokes better than her winning total last year at Heatherwoode.

So consistent was Burritt that her card showed 44 pars, five birdies, four bogeys and one double bogey.

Burritt, who had the lowest scoring average when she was captain and most valuable player of the Bellbrook boys team two years ago, can be counted upon to have one of the highest averages in the classroom no matter what the subject.

She was president of the BHS National Honor Society while a member of the Key Club and Spanish/International Club. She was founder of the school’s Food Forward program and brought so many AP credits to UC that she practically entered school as a sophomore. Oh yes, and she has had 13 years of classical piano training.

“She is really, really smart,” said Brad Smith, the golf instructor at Heatherwoode who serves as an assistant coach at UC. “That really helps her. We’ve seen her blossom at UC. The mental part of her game has gotten real good.”

Smith said Burritt is such a perfectionist that in the past she allowed the inevitable bad shots to bother her.

“She has learned to stay focused,” he said. “She plays one shot at a time.”

Burritt began playing golf when she was 5, but she says she got serious about the sport when she was 13. She has taken lessons from Jim Rue.

Chip Shots

The City of Dayton Men’s Stroke Play and Senior Stroke Play Tournaments, originally scheduled in August, have been moved to Sept. 15 and 16 to accommodate a larger field than was expected in August.

Dayton Country Club, which hosted the first Dayton area championship in 1919, has agreed to host the 100th anniversary of the event now known as the Metropolitan Championship. It will be held July 25-28, 2019.

The fourth Miami Valley Masters (senior) event of the year is scheduled for Monday at Sugar Valley. “They’re becoming quite popular,” said Steve Jurick, executive director of the Miami Valley Golf Association.

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