That was in 2005 — when there were just two classifications in Colorado boys golf, instead of the current three — and Green Valley Ranch hosted the 5A meet and Wellshire the 4A.

A dozen years later, all three state tournaments next week — Monday and Tuesday specifically — will be based at public courses in the Denver area. The 5A championship will be at CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora, the 4A at Raccoon Creek Golf Course in Littleton, and the 3A at Indian Peaks Golf Course in Lafayette.

Suffice it to say that’s quite a change from last year, when the 5A meet was conducted in Grand Junction, the 4A in Carbondale and the 3A in Aurora.

Here’s a quick look at what to expect from each of next week’s 36-hole state tournaments:

— 5A at CommonGround: Based on how 2017 has gone so far, senior Davis Bryant of Eaglecrest should be the player to beat at CommonGround. The future Colorado State University golfer has won both of the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado majors in which he’s competed this year. In national/international events, he advanced to the match play round of 64 at the U.S. Junior Amateur and finished 14th at the Boys Junior PGA Championship and ninth individually in the Junior America’s Cup.

Bryant is the top returning player from last year’s 5A state tournament as he placed second to then-senior Kyle Pearson of Highlands Ranch.

In all, five top-10 finishers from last year’s state meet are back: Bryant; Cal McCoy and Drew Anderson of Regis Jesuit (tied for sixth in 2016), Kailer Dundiks of Denver East (ninth) and Josh Caridi of Fossil Ridge (ninth). McCoy has verbally committed to the University of Denver.

All three current high school players who represented Colorado on the Junior America’s Cup team this year — Bryant, McCoy and Dillon Stewart of Fossil Ridge — will compete in the 5A tournament. Also at CommonGround will be Canon Olkowski of Grand Junction, who has verbally committed to the University of Colorado, and Colorado Junior Match Play runner-up Jack Castiglia of Lakewood.

Bryant, Olkowski and McCoy were among those who recently won regional state-qualifying tournaments.

Team-wise, Regis will be seeking its seventh state title in the last eight years after improbably winning by a single stroke each of the last two seasons.

–– 4A at Raccoon Creek: Luke Trujillo of Discovery Canyon will be back to defend his indvidual title after defeating current DU golfer Jackson Solem in a playoff last year.

Trujillo shot a 5-under-par 65 to win a regional state-qualifying tournament at Elmwood Golf Course in Pueblo.

Discovery Canyon also will be trying to win its second consecutive team title. One of Trujillo’s teammates in that regard is Kaden Ford, who recently became just the fourth Coloradan ever to qualify for the finals of the Drive Chip & Putt Championship.

Joining Trujillo as a top-10 finisher from 2016 who’s returning to state are Darren Edwards of Thompson Valley (fourth last year), Tyler Severin of Roosevelt (sixth), Micah Stangebye of Montrose (seventh) and Caleb Blackburn of Discovery Canyon (10th).

Also in the field are Barrett Jones of Eagle Valley, one of the top players in JGAC tournaments this year, and TJ Shehee of Mead, who qualified for this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur.

— 3A at Indian Peaks: Oliver Jack of Kent Denver, like Trujillo, will be attempting to win his second straight state individual title. If either should prevail again, he would be the fifth two-time Colorado boys state high school champion since 1995. Last year, Jack, who’s verbally committed to CU, won in a playoff over Ivan Richmond of Estes Park, who likewise will return.

In all, 10 of the top 12 finishers from the 2016 3A state tournament will be back. Besides Jack and Richmond, there’s Ethan Tartaglia of Peak to Peak (third last year), Jackson Klutznick of Kent Denver (fourth), Nishant Datta of Peak to Peak (sixth), Ian Thorpe of Peak to Peak (sixth), Liam O’Halloran of The Classical Academy (sixth), Jacob Mason of Jefferson Academy (sixth), Peter Grossenbacher of Eaton (10th) and Billy Howenstein of Dawson School (10th).

Also in the field is Kent Denver’s Mateo Manzanares, a First Tee of Denver member who on Sunday teamed with PGA Tour Champions standout Scott McCarron to place fourth in the pro-junior competition of the PURE Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach.

Kent Denver, the 2016 team champion, will be seeking its record 10th boys state high school team title. Eight of its victories have come since 2006.

With three top-six finishers back from last year’s state runner-up school, 2015 state champion Peak to Peak figures to make another run at the title, particularly playing at its home course.

Aspen may also be a contender as it finished 1-2-3-4 in the regional at Devil’s Thumb, posting a team total of 6 under par.

Here are the teams and individuals that won regional state-qualifying tournaments last week:

5A Southern at Colorado Springs CC — Team: Heritage +5; Individual: Canon Olkowski, Grand Junction, and Sam Blackwood, Heritage, 70.

5A Northern at Coal Creek — Team: Regis Jesuit +11; Individual: Cal McCoy, Regis Jesuit, 71.

5A Central at Plum Creek — Team: Fossil Ridge +5; Individual: Davis Bryant, Eaglecrest, and Kieran McMullen, Rock Canyon, 71.

5A Western at Broadlands — Team: Arapahoe +9; Individual: Tommy Packer, Arapahoe, 71.

4A Region 1 at Elmwood — Team: Discovery Canyon +11; Individual: Luke Trujillo, Discovery Canyon, 65.

4A Region 2 at CC of Colorado — Team: Valor Christian +37; Individual: Keaton Hulen, Cheyenne Mountain, 76.

4A Region 3 at Boomerang — Team: Thompson Valley +13; Individual: Wes Weber, Mountain View, and Tyler Severin, Roosevelt, 70.

4A Region 4 at The Bridges — Team: Montrose +3; Individual: Bridger Tenney, Evergreen, and Micah Stangebye, Montrose, 71.

3A Region 1 at East to Links — Team: Kent Denver +1; Individual: Oliver Jack, Kent Denver, 69.

3A Region 2 at CommonGround — Team: Colorado Academy +3; Individual: Christian Agelopoulos, Colorado Academy, and Peter Grossenbacher, Eaton, 69.

3A Region 3 at Estes Park GC — Team: Sterling +11; Individual: Riley Schaefer, Sterling, 70.

3A Region 4 at Devil’s Thumb — Team: Aspen -6; Individual: Carter Hall, Aspen, 69.

For Monday’s state championship tee times, CLICK HERE.

Bob Austin helped put the Cherry Creek boys golf team in the record books, and he had a hand in removing the Bruins as well.

Austin played on two of Creek’s state title-winning teams — in 1970 and ’71 — as the Bruins went on to set the record for the most boys golf state team titles in Colorado, with eight.

But on Tuesday in the 3A state meet at Saddle Rock Golf Course in Aurora, with Austin serving as the head coach of the host Kent Denver squad, the Sun Devils took sole possession of the aforementioned record, moving out of a tie with Cherry Creek.

Kent Denver (pictured celebrating) has now won state crowns nine times since 1999, and Austin has been the coach for eight of those nine — two in Class 4A and six in 3A. (With its sixth win in the last seven years in 5A on Tuesday, Regis Jesuit joined Creek with eight state championships.)

And to double the fun for Kent on Tuesday, Sun Devils junior Oliver Jack (left) won a playoff to claim the 3A individual championship.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” Austin said. “I’m really choked up. I really wanted this for these kids. We finished second the last two years. I wanted to get over that hump. The kids, I couldn’t be prouder of them. They played awesome. It was really fun. This might be the sweetest (state title) of all.”

And that was just one of the three state tournaments that concluded on Tuesday around the state. The others were just as notable:

— In the 4A meet at River Valley Ranch Golf Club in Carbondale, the individual title also was settled in a playoff, this one denying defending champion Jackson Solem of Silver Creek from becoming just the fifth two-time Colorado boys state high school champion since 1995. The first-round leader, junior Luke Trujillo of Discovery Canyon, parred the second playoff hole to defeat Solem and claim the title. And Trujillo helped Discovery Canyon win a boys state golf team championship for the first time. Three-time defending champ Valor Christian was third.

— In the 5A tournament at Bookcliff Country Club in Grand Junction, senior Kyle Pearson of Highlands Ranch put on a clinic as rounds of 66-67 gave him a 9-under-par 133 total and a six-stroke victory over Davis Bryant of Eaglecrest. Moreover, Pearson made a hole-in-one Tuesday en route to the title, acing the 136-yard 15th hole with a gap wedge. And, as noted earlier, Regis made it six 5A team titles in seven years. And perhaps the most remarkable thing about that is that each of the last two victories have come by one-stroke margins.

Back at 3A, the two players who finished tied for second in the state tournament last year were the ones in a playoff on Tuesday: Jack and Ivan Richmond of Estes Park. Richmond birdied the 17th hole in regulation to pull even, and both players bogeyed No. 18, with Jack three-putting.

But on the par-5 556-yard playoff hole, Jack hit his drive 30 yards beyond where his ball traveled on the same hole earlier Tuesday, and he had just a 7-iron for his approach into the green. Richmond, meanwhile, pulled his tee shot into a hazard and needed four shots to get to the front fringe. He three-putted from there for a double bogey. Jack, meanwhile, sank a 4-foot birdie for the victory.

“This means a lot,” said Jack, a 16-year-old who has already verbally committed to play his college golf at the University of Colorado. “A state championship is something I always wanted to win. Words can’t describe the feeling. Nothing means more to me than winning this. And it’s great for the team (too).”

Richmond (left), meanwhile, was thinking of what might have been.

“Obviously the tee shot (in the playoff) wasn’t the greatest,” he said. “Nerves and all that stuff were just going through my brain. It was bad.

“Obviously I wanted to win here. It would have been pretty special.”

Jack shot an even-par 72 on Tuesday — not counting his playoff birdie — and finished at even-par 144. Richmond closed with a 71 to get to that same total.

“I was really excited for Oliver,” Austin said. “I thought Oliver was the best player coming in, and I told him that. And I thought if we were going to win, the best player needs to win individually — and he did. He’s such an unbelievable talent and such a great kid

“(Winning both titles) was a huge thrill. The last two hours, I’m probably more nervous than I’ve ever been in my life.”

Joining Jack in the top 10 individually for Kent Denver on Tuesday were sophomore Jackson Klutznick (148, fourth place) and freshman Ben Zimmerman (153, 10th place). Rounding out the Sun Devil team was senior Jack Friedman (162, 25th place).

Placing third individually on Tuesday was Peak to Peak’s Ethan Tartaglia, who posted a 72 for a 146 total. Yale Kim of the Dawson School, the 2014 champion, shared fourth place with Klutznick at 148.

Kent Denver, which finished at 13-over-par 445, had a battle to win its eighth team title since 2006. Defending champion Peak to Peak took second place at 448.

In the 5A tournament, the team race was even closer as Regis Jesuit’s 10-over-par 436 total just edged Highlands Ranch by one.

Individually, Pearson was the only player to post two rounds in the 60s at Bookcliff. Besides his hole-in-one eagle, he made four birdies and two bogeys on Tuesday. For the two days, he racked up 10 birdies plus the eagle.

Bryant, a U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier last year, was very much in contention through 10 holes Tuesday as he had made a birdie and nine pars and stood 6 under overall. But he went 3 over par the rest of the way, shot 73, and had to settle for runner-up with a 3-under 139 total.

First-round leader Nick Caldwell of Rock Canyon was the only other player to finish under-par for two rounds, in his case at 140, good for third place. He made an eagle and a birdie on Tuesday, but also seven bogeys in a round of 75.

In 4A, Solem rallied from four behind going into the day to force a playoff in his bid for two straight individual championships. But after both players parred the first extra hole, Trujillo made a par on the second playoff hole to prevail as Solem missed his 6-foot par attempt. Both players finished at 4-under-par 140 overall, with Solem closing with a bogey-free 69 (though his blemish-free day ended on the second playoff hole) and Trujillo a 73.

Trujillo led by three strokes with four holes left in regulation, but a double bogey on 15 and a bogey on 18 forced the playoff.

Cole Krantz of Windsor was also in the thick of the title race, but back-to-back bogeys on 15 and 16 led to a third-place finish, one out of the playoff. Krantz played his first seven holes in 4 under par on Tuesday, making an eagle on the 325-yard seventh hole.

Discovery Canyon ran away with the 4A team title. Its 6-over-par 438 total was 15 strokes better than runner-up Montrose.

For scores from the state tournaments, click on the following: 5A, 4A, 3A.

This fall, the 5A state tournament is set for Bookcliff Country Club in Grand Junction and the 4A is at River Valley Ranch Golf Club in Carbondale. The 3A state meet, meanwhile, will be hosted by Saddle Rock Golf Course in Aurora.

Also unusual this year is that there will be three former individual champions that will be seeking their second state high school title. Jackson Solem (pictured) of Silver Creek (4A) and Sam Taylor of Peak to Peak (3A) won individual state crowns last year, and Yale Kim of the Dawson School (3A) prevailed in 2014 before finishing sixth a year ago.
     
Meanwhile, the two schools that are tied for the most boys state high school team titles in Colorado, Cherry Creek and Kent Denver, both qualified a team this year and have the opportunity to notch championship No. 9 — Creek in 5A and Kent in 3A. Kent, in fact, will be one of the favorites in the 3A tournament after having placed second last year.

Here’s a quick look at each of the state tournaments:

5A at Bookcliff: Regis Jesuit has had a remarkable run in recent years, having won five state team titles in the past six years. But last season, the Raiders won by just a stroke over runners-up Coronado and Lakewood. And Regis finished third in this year’s regional state qualifying tournament, behind Fairview and Lakewood.
   
Fairview’s Daniel Pearson, who has committed to play his college golf at the University of Nebraska, had the best score in a 2016 regional state qualifying tourney, a 6-under-par 66 at Broadlands.
   
Here are the top 10 finishers from state last year who will be in the field at Bookcliff: Trevor Olkowski of Grand Junction (third in 2015); Tyler Zhang of Regis, Josh Caridi of Fossil Ridge and 2016 Colorado Junior Match Play champion Griffin Barela of Lakewood (tied for fifth). Barela is headed to the University of Wisconsin for his college golf.

4A at River Valley Ranch: Solem, a future University of Denver golfer, will attempt to become the first back-to-back winner of the 4A individual title since Cheyenne Mountain’s Tom Glissmeyer in 2003 and ’04 (Valor Christian’s Wyndham Clark won two 4A titles, but not consecutively.)
   
Solem, who won a regional title en route to his state crown last year, shot a 5-under-par 67 at Boomerang in claiming a 2016 regional championship.
   
Five top-10 finishers from 2015 return for this year: Solem (first in ’15); Cole Krantz of Windsor (third); Mathew Casias of Pueblo South (fifth); and Glen-Michael Mihavetz of Montrose and Lenny Urbas of Evergreen (tied for seventh).
   
Meanwhile, Valor Christian will try to win its fourth straight 4A state team title — and sixth since 2009. Silver Creek, winner of nine consecutive regional championships, may make a run at the top spot this time.

3A at Saddle Rock: An amazing nine of the top 11 finishers from last year will be back for next week’s tournament. That includes former champs Taylor and Kim.
   
Here the rundown: Taylor (first in 2015); Oliver Jack of Kent Denver and Ivan Richmond of Estes Park (tied for second); Billy Howenstein of Dawson School (fifth); Kim and Holden Kleager of Basalt (tied for sixth); Brayden Lambrecht of Sterling, Ian Thorpe of Peak to Peak and Nishant Datta of Peak to Peak (tied for eighth).
   
Taylor also will be hoping for a repeat in the team competition as Peak to Peak claimed the title last year.
 

Here are the team and individual champions from the recent regional state qualifying tournaments:

— 5A Southern (at South Suburban GC) — Team: Arapahoe 222; Individual: Ethan Alexander, Monarch, 71.

— 5A Central (at City Park GC) — Team: Highlands Ranch 217; Individual: Kyle Pearson, Highlands Ranch, 68.

— 5A Northern (at Saddle Rock GC) — Team: Fossil Ridge 221; Individual: Bradley Scalia, Cherokee Trail, 71.

— 5A Western (at Broadlands) — Team: (tie) Fairview and Lakewood 218; Individual: Daniel Pearson, Fairview.

— 4A Region 4 (at Adobe Creek GC) — Team: Montrose 223; Individual: Micah Stangebye, Montrose, 69.

— 4A Region 1 (at Elmwood GC) — Team: Discovery Canyon 219; Individual (tie) Luke Trujillo, Discovery Canyon, 71; Drew Egan, Pueblo County, 71; and Owen Pasvogel, Discovery Canyon, 71.

— 4A Region 2 (at Broken Tee GC) — Team: Valor Christian 221; Individual: Jake Welch, Valor Christian, 70.

— 4A Region 3 (at Boomerang GL) — Team: Silver Creek 217; Individual: Jackson Solem, Silver Creek, 67.

— 3A Region 3 (at Northeastern 18) — Team Sterling 227; Individual: Brayden Lambrecht, Sterling, 72.

— 3A Region 4 (at Devil’s Thumb) — Team: Aspen 233; Individual: Holden Kleager, Basalt, 73.

— 3A Region 1 (at Hollydot) — Team: Alamosa 239; Individual: Hayden Wehe, Alamosa, 69.

— 3A Region 2 (at CommonGround GC) — Team: Kent Denver 216; Individual: Oliver Jack, Denver East, 71.

Here are the pairings for Monday’s first rounds of state: 5A, 4A, 3A

When the boys state high school golf championships are held Monday and Tuesday, the fields will feature two players who made the final 64 at the U.S. Junior Amateur, the brother of a three-time girls state high school champ, a player who will be fresh off competing in a Champions Tour event at Pebble Beach, and a team that has won a Colorado-record seven consecutive state titles.

In other words, the three state tournaments won’t be lacking for storylines. When the 5A meet is played at Murphy Creek Golf Course in Aurora, the 4A at Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen and the 3A at Pueblo Country Club, here are some of the things to watch:

— Spencer Painton of Regis Jesuit, runner-up in the 5A state tournament last year, qualified for the 64-player match-play bracket at this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur. There, he lost to Scottie Scheffler of Dallas, who went on to win the national title.

Painton (pictured above) was a regional champion at Murphy Creek, the site of the 5A state tournament after it was moved following flooding at CommonGround Golf Course. Earlier this week, he also won a tournament that featured Colorado junior all-stars from all classifications, the CJGA Collegiate High School Invitational held in conjunction with the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational college meet.

— Josh Seiple of Valor Christian, arguably the favorite in the 4A state meet, has qualified for the last two U.S. Junior Amateurs. This year he advanced to match play before losing in 19 holes in his round-of-64 match.

Seiple, who has committed to play college golf at the University of Mississippi, has finished in the top 10 at each of the last two 4A state tournaments.

(Seiple, in black, is pictured at left hitting, with defending 5A state champion Kyler Dunkle of Douglas County looking on.)

Two of Seiple’s Valor teammates won CGA junior state titles this year, with Ross Macdonald prevailing in the Junior Stroke Play and Jake Staiano in the Junior Match Play.

— Kobe Padilla of Cherry Creek will compete in the 5A tournament after spending the weekend at Pebble Beach playing in the Champions Tour’s nationally televised Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Padilla, a member of the First Tee of Denver, will be partnered there with fellow Coloradan Mark Wiebe, who is coming off his second Champions Tour victory of the year.

— Michael Tait of Columbine, a regional champion in Class 5A, is the brother of Ashley Tait, who won three 4A girls state high school titles from 2002-05 while attending Mullen. Michael Tait also plays football for Columbine.

— Meanwhile, Kent Denver, competing in Class 3A, will be trying to extend its Colorado record for consecutive state golf titles to eight. But unlike in recent years, the Sun Devils will be long shots to win. They finished fifth in their regional meet, but did qualify four players for state.

Here are some of the nuts and bolts leading up to the three state high school championships:

— 2012 Individual Champion Returning — Kyler Dunkle of Douglas County (5A).

— 2012 5A State Top 10 Individual Finishers Returning — Kyler Dunkle, Douglas County (first); Li Chen, Legacy (second); Spencer Painton, Regis Jesuit (second); Donny Kinnaman, Grand Junction (fourth); Chris Korte, Regis Jesuit (sixth); AJ Ott, Fort Collins (sixth); Neil Tillman, Ralston Valley (10th).

— 2012 4A State Top 10 Individual Finishers Returning — Glenn Workman, Pueblo West (third); Chase Federico, Pueblo South (fifth); Josh Seiple, Valor Christian (seventh); Jacob Rudosky, Cortez (eighth); Taylor Rodriguez, Pueblo South (ninth); Ross Macdonald, Valor Christian (10th).

— 2012 3A State Top 10 Individual Finishers Returning — Brian Coleman, Estes Park (fourth); Dylan Jirsa, Estes Park (fourth); Payton DeVencenty, Lutheran (seventh); Hayden Nicholaides, Lutheran (ninth); Cole Folwell, Alexander Dawson (10th).

— Defending State Team Champions — 5A: Regis Jesuit (three-time defending champs); 4A: Pueblo South; 3A: Kent Denver.

— 2013 Regional Team Champions — 5A: Boulder, Regis Jesuit, Columbine, Cherry Creek. 4A: Silver Creek, Valor Christian, Cheyenne Mountain, Durango. 3A: Aspen, Trinidad, Alexander Dawson, Holy Family.

— 2013 Regional Individual Champions/Co-Champions — 5A: Grant Rogers, Boulder; Erik Young, George Washington; Spencer Painton, Regis Jesuit; Michael Tait, Columbine; Brooks Hoffman, Fossil Ridge. 4A: Todd Millard, Silver Creek; Josh Seiple, Valor Christian; Glenn Workman, Pueblo West; Patrick Shin, Cheyenne Mountain; Jacob Rudosky, Cortez. 3A: Cooper Gould, Vail Christian; Mason Dotter, Salida; Cole Folwell, Alexander Dawson; Hayden Nicholaides, Lutheran.

— 2013 CJGA Collegiate High School Invitational Results (held Sept. 23-24 at Colorado National GC in Erie) — 1. Spencer Painton, Regis Jesuit, 82-71-69–222; 2. Josh Seiple, Valor Christian, 77-73-75–225; 3. Jake Staiano, Valor Christian, 76-77-74–227; 4. Glenn Workman, Pueblo West, 84-75-70–229; 5. Chris Korte, Regis Jesuit, 77-75-78–230; 6. (tie) Coby Welch, Valor Christian, 81-76-79–236; Kyler Dunkle, Douglas County, 82-77-77–236; 8. Ross Macdonald, Valor Christian, 80-79-79–238.

Here are tee time links for Monday’s first rounds of state: 5A, 4A, 3A.