Friendswood's Bryce Brazzel recently set a single-round scoring record with a 67 Jan. 16 at Bay Oaks Country Club.Bryce Brazzel and Mary Kerr welcome greens in regulation any day of the week, but if you offer them an opportunity to flag-hunt, they’ll gladly accept.Brazzel, a senior, recently shot a 67 at Bay Oaks Country Club in Clear Lake while Kerr carded a 68 at Moody Gardens at the outset of the fall golf season.
“That was a fun day – everything just kind of came together,” Brazzel said. “I knew I was capable of doing it, but I had never had one come together like that in a tournament.“I got lucky a few times, and you have to, to shoot 67. After parring the first six holes, I made an eagle on No. 7.”“It’s a par-5 and I hit it in the water off the tee,” Brazzel said. “I took my drop, got it on the green and made a 6-footer for par.
“My freshman year was the COVID year, and I was playing baseball and golf, and everything was cut short,” he said.Brazzel made the varsity squad his sophomore year and was shooting in the 80s most of the year until the district tournament at Bay Forest Golf Course in La Porte.