Heavenly Again, Angel Wins by 10 : City Section golf: He claims individual title again and helps Granada Hills take team championship.

Darren Angel of Granada Hills High grabbed a pencil and scribbled another 2 on his scorecard. Birdies were piling up. Quickly.

In fact, maybe it wasn’t a 2 after all. Perhaps it was a Z, because the way Angel was cruising, the rest of the field might as well have slept in. Even Angel appeared to be snoozing at times as he shredded the field Thursday in the final round of the City Section golf championships.

“It didn’t even look like he was trying,” said Scott Golditch of Taft, one of Angel’s playing partners. “It didn’t look like he even cared.”

Ah, looks can be deceiving. Angel may have a low-key manner, but when it came time to put away the opposition, he slammed the door by slamming home six birdies to win the individual title by a remarkable 10 shots at Knollwood Country Club.

Angel, a junior, fired his second consecutive three-under-par 69 to win in a runaway. Angel, the defending champion, also led Granada Hills to its second team title in a row. The Highlanders fired a five-man, 36-hole total of 804 to edge Grant by two shots.

Golditch, who finished third last season, shot 75 in the second round to finish second but was never really in the hunt.

Angel, who started the day with a six-shot lead, birdied the par-three sixth hole to take an eight-shot lead and all but put it in the bag with another birdie on No. 7. Angel shot 35-34.

“He felt he was playing poorly on the back side and was still beating me,” said Golditch, who will play next year at Cal.

Angel set the field on its collective backside, to be sure. Other than Golditch, no other player finished within 20 shots of Angel, a third-team All-American last year. He averaged 280 yards off the tee, missed only two greens in regulation and reached the 11th hole, a 461-yard par-five, with a drive and an eight-iron.

Angel’s score could have been dizzying--he missed six putts from inside 12 feet. Peter Yang finished at 158 and Tyler Foster at 159 for the Highlanders.

The team competition was as close as it sounded and wasn’t without controversy.

Granada Hills Coach Joe White, whose team entered the second round with a two-shot lead over Grant, ordered course officials to group the tee markers in the middle of the tee boxes. Knollwood is the home course of Granada Hills, which played host to the tournament.

Consequently, the women’s tees were moved back and the championship blue tees were moved forward, both to the approximate area where the white tees would normally be located. It gave Angel, a big hitter, an advantage and added several hundred yards to the course for Allison Wilson of Grant.

Wilson, one of the area’s best girls’ players, was allowed under City rules to play from the women’s tees. In the first round Wednesday, she enjoyed an advantage of about 20 yards on every hole. Thursday, she teed off with the boys. Wilson shot 79-80 and tied for fifth.

White said he was trying to make the course easier for everyone by grouping the tees. After the tournament, all tee markers were back in their typical locations.

“I wasn’t trying to cheat,” White said. “She hits it as far as the boys. It’s only a few yards a hole.”

Grant’s Josh Jacobs--playing in the second-to-last group--was misinformed after the 16th hole that Grant held a 10-shot lead. He bogeyed the 17th and missed the green at No. 18 before getting some bad news.

“Then they said I had to birdie (the 18th) to win,” said Jacobs, who bogeyed the hole to shoot 81. “I said, ‘Thanks a lot.’ ”