BUTTE — The Class AA state golf tournament required three extra holes to determine its boys champion on a cool, occasionally rainy Friday afternoon at the Butte Country Club.

Helena Capital's John Gilbert and Missoula Sentinel's Jack Schaefer both finished the second round with a two-day total to send the round into a playoff. They both bogeyed the first hole, then parred the second.

On the third playoff hole Schaefer bogeyed and Gilbert, a junior, then sank a birdie putt to slip past Schaefer and claim the individual crown in dramatic fashion a year after settling for a tie for fifth.

"It feels great, I've wanted to be a state champion since I was a kid," said Gilbert. "First year I missed it a little bit. Second year I was leading with nine to play and kind of choked. But it feels goo

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