Prince Edward County High School senior No. 1 golfer Henry Lutz has turned his attention to the scholastic bowl team and swimming, but he recently finished off his competitive play on the links this fall with one last win.

After claiming the Region 2A East Championship and the Virginia High School League Group 2A State Championship, he won the 10th annual All American Cup golf tournament for junior golfers at Poplar Grove Golf Club in Amherst County.

“I thought that I played very respectably,” he said. “But there were times where things didn’t work out and times where things did work out, and it balanced itself out overall.”

Lutz shot a three-over-par 75 in the first round of the two-day event. Totals were not officially announced for round two on day two, when Lutz was announced as the winner, but he said he knew he finished the tournament with five birdies and only one double bogey.

The hilly golf course was demanding, as usual.

“This course’s greens were harder than the ones we’ve played recently, so I didn’t necessarily have the best putting days, but I did hit my irons really consistently,” Lutz said.

During past years, the field of players had been larger than 12, but Lutz noted that the level of competition at the event is typically high.

“Anybody can sign up, but they do have recommendations on it for your scoring average and basically how well you can play, because the course is really difficult and normally some of the better players in the state come,” he said.

He was tied with Joshua Leslie, of Forest, after the first round, while Hunter Shelton, of Dry Fork, and Hunter Metz, of Lynchburg, were tied for third place five strokes back. After the second round, Shelton finished in second, and Leslie took third after a two-hole playoff with Metz.

Lutz’s current win streak has left him optimistic about future opportunities on the links.

“It gives me some confidence that if I want to try to play in college, I have some ability to play really well for a series of three to four weeks, at least,” he said. “But it also reminds me that I need to work hard in the offseason so that I can try to keep it up in order to continue playing this well.”

He said he has been focusing on finding the college that is the right fit academically, expressing a desire to study engineering.

“Then, once I get all the academic applications sorted out, I’m going to look into seeing if any coaches are interested,” he said.