Criddle’s riddles: The home to great golfers

The 2015 Illinois high school state golf series begins next week. A hotbed for boys and girls golf, the meto-east has turned out several individual state champions including former Belleville West and PGA and Senior PGA Tour star Jay Haas in the 1971-72 season and younger brother and Wake Forest University golf coach Jerry Haas (1980-81).

Here is today’s question: Since 1990, who are the five metro-east area high school golfers to win state championships.

Yesterday’s answer: Making up the 1969 Mets rotation were Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry and Jim McAndrew. The reliever was Nolan Ryan.The 2015 Illinois high school state golf series begins next week.

This story was originally published September 30, 2015 at 11:00 PM with the headline "Criddle’s riddles: The home to great golfers."