{"id":38074,"date":"2022-10-04T03:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-thayer-plewe-is-1-shot-off-lead-at-state-golf-meet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:42:02","slug":"montezuma-cortezs-thayer-plewe-is-1-shot-off-lead-at-state-golf-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-thayer-plewe-is-1-shot-off-lead-at-state-golf-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s Thayer Plewe is 1 shot off lead at state golf meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bfd53249-da8d-5a54-a1da-ddf64a3feb79&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior golfer Thayer Plewe participates in the CHSAA\/Denver Broncos Media Day on Monday in Denver. (Gabe Christus\/Denver Broncos)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior golfer Thayer Plewe participates in the CHSAA\/Denver Broncos Media Day on Monday in Denver. (Gabe Christus\/Denver Broncos)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he was the hunted. This time, Thayer Plewe will get to play the role of the hunter.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid for his first individual state title, the standout senior golfer from Montezuma-Cortez High School sits just one stroke off the lead entering the final day at the 3A state championships at Pinehurst Country Club in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>An opening round 70, including three birdies and three bogies, places Plewe by himself in second place behind Resurrection Christian freshman Clint Summers, whose round of 69 is the only under-par round in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Plewe sits in a dense pursuit pack, as one of nine golfers within four shots of the lead entering the second round of the 36-hole tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The senior held a brief lead, sitting at two-under through 12 holes, but back-to-back bogies on his 13th and 14th holes of the day backed Plewe up to even-par.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Panthers sit in ninth place as a team, shooting 240 in the opening round.  Sophomore Vince Lopez overcame seven straight bogies to start the round to finish with a 79, good for a tie for 31st in the field. Three birdies in his final nine holes helped Lopez stay in the top third of the field.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS senior Kaden Huff and junior Airoughn VanGrandt posted matching 91s to round out the M-CHS competitors.  Huff finished with five pars, while VanGrandt carded four in his state tournament debut.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers sit just 10 strikes outside of the top four places, while Vail Mountain holds the Day One clubhouse lead (221), ahead of Resurrection Christian (223).<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers tee off Tuesday morning from Pinehurst with Plewe\u2019s lead grouping set to start at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers sit ninth as a team through 18 holes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2261,28,36,445],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-golf","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83902,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074\/revisions\/83902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38074"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}