LeCroy wins Anniston City Championship

Anniston, AL – LeCroy wins Anniston City Championship in a playoff after ralling from three strokes down, Rollins rallies to force playoff.

2025 Calhoun County Golf Tour

The 2025 Calhoun County Golf Tour schedule with tournament winners in parenthesis:

March 29-30
Anniston City Championship, Cane Creek (Jacob LeCroy)
April 26-27
Gadsden City Championship, Twin Bridges
May 3-4
Pine Hill Country Club Invitational
May 30-June 1
Wilfred Galbraith Invitational, Anniston Country Club
June 28-29
Etowah County Open, The Links, Briarmeade
July 12-13
RTJ Silver Lakes Championship
July 26-27
Oxford City Championship, Cider Ridge Golf Course
Aug. 1-3
Gadsden Country Club Invitational
Aug. 16-17
89th Calhoun County Championship, Anniston Municipal Golf Course
Sept. 27-28 or Oct. 18-19
16th Calhoun County Match Play Championship, Anniston Municipal Golf Course

By Joe Medley

CANE CREEK — Jacob LeCroy waited his whole life to win the Anniston City Championship. Why not one extra hole?

In what could be a preview of coming attractions on the Calhoun County Golf Tour, the Donoho graduate and former University of South Alabama golfer birdied No. 18 to edge John Rollins in a one-hole playoff after Sunday’s final round at Cane Creek.

LeCroy (68-70—138) rallied from three strokes down headed into Sunday’s final round to lead by one stroke going into the final hole of regulation, only to see Rollins (65-73—138), the first-round leader, birdie to force a playoff.

The Anniston City Championship is the first even on the 2025 Calhoun County Golf Tour and the first points event. The Calhoun County 2-Man Tournament, a non-points event, is next weekend at Silver Lakes.

Ty Cole (72-68—140), the Anniston City Championship defending champion, show a Sunday-low 68 to finished third, two shots back of LeCroy and Rollins. Reigning tour champion Gary Wigington (71-72—143) finished fourth, five strokes back.

LeCroy played in the Anniston City Championship for the first time in at least six years, he said. He just moved back to Calhoun County after finishing his schooling and playing career for South Alabama.

Getting his first win in the tournament “feels good,” he said.

“I’m excited,” he said. “I played in this tournament a lot as a kid, before I ever went to college. To come back here and win it, is awesome.”

He said he’s planning on playing more regularly on the county tour, now that he’s back home. The tour includes nine points events, and final points are based in players’ top–five finishes. LeCroy couldn’t play in enough events to compete for the points title during his college years.

He had to make up ground Sunday. Rollins shot a 7-under-par 65 in Saturday’s first round to lead LeCroy by three strokes headed into Sunday’s final round.

Rollins bogeyed the first three holes and four of the first five. He got his first birdie on No. 9 and had two on the back nine including a birdie on No. 18 to force the playoff.

Rollins gave himself a chance to win in regulation.

“I had a real good second shot in there and left me about a 20-foot eagle putt,” he said. “Jacob had been making those 5- and 6-foot birdie putts all day, so I’m thinking, ‘I’ve got to make this eagle putt.’

“I putted it a little long and left myself about a 3-foot birdie putt.”

LeCroy parred the hole but, but the two players replayed 18 for the playoff. He lived to learn from his mistake on his second shot.

Just like his regulation shot on No. 18, LeCroy left himself about 245 yards out from the hole, on the right side of the fairway. He hit his second shot lower on his playoff attempt.

“Somehow, my ball caught a tree the first time around,” he said. “I walked up there thinking I was 10, 15 yards short, and I was 40 yards. Next time, I wasn’t making that same mistake.”

LeCroy cut a low shot onto the green, leaving himself a 30-foot eagle putt. He missed but tapped in for birdie.

Rollins’ second shot left him about 30 yards out, but his approach left him a 20-foot birdie putt. He missed, and LeCroy’s mark sat just a foot from the hole.

LeCroy enjoyed congratulatory hugs from his dad, Lewis, and several other golfers who formed a gallery on the clubhouse porch.

“I like having fun, and that’s what all of this is,” he said. “To get to come out here and hang out with everybody, a crowd watching, you don’t get that all of the time, and that’s the best part.”