updated
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 04:23 PM
Green Mountain National Golf Course to host Killington Junior
Golf Championship, June 25-28
The American Junior Golf Association will return to the Killington
area for the third year when Green Mountain National Golf Course
hosts 144 players for the Killington Junior Golf Championship, June
25-28. Junior golfers from around the United States and five other
countries will travel to compete in this 54-hole stroke play
event.
In 2011, Jake Shuman of Needham, Mass., and Isabel
Southard of Sharon, Mass., each earned a victory. Despite it being
his first AJGA Open event, Shuman held a five-stroke lead to win in
the Boys Division. Southard finished with a 5-over-par 218 to win
her first AJGA event. Although neither champion will return to
defend their title, Thomas La Morte of Haworth, N.J., Alice Chen of
Princeton, N.J., and Vinh-Hop Ngo of Newton, Mass., all top-5
finishers in 2011, will return hoping to build on their previous
success.
A shotgun practice round will be held Monday, June 25, at 2 p.m.
First-round play will begin Tuesday, June 26, with first- and
second-round tee times running from 7 - 8:50 a.m. (1st wave) and
11:40 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (2nd wave) off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees at
Green Mountain National Golf Course. Following a cut after the
second round, final-round tee times will run from 7 - 8:50 a.m. off
the Nos. 1 and 10 tees on Thursday, June 28. An awards ceremony
will immediately follow Thursday's final round. Guests are welcome
to attend and admission is free.
Prior to the event, an 18-hole TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier
will be held Sunday, June 24, at the Green Mountain National Golf
Course. TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifiers give juniors an
opportunity to "play their way in" to coinciding AJGA Open
tournaments or build status for entry into a future event. The
TaylorMade-adidas Golf Qualifier Series offers opportunities for
AJGA juniors at approximately 50 AJGA Open events.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of
young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships
through competitive junior golf. The AJGA provides valuable
exposure for college golf scholarships, and has an annual junior
membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,500
junior golfers from 49 states and more than 40 countries. To ensure
scholarship opportunities for all junior golfers who have the
skill, the AJGA created the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE)
Grant program to provide financial assistance to young players in
need.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and
professional golf. Former AJGA juniors have compiled more than 500
victories on the PGA and LPGA Tours. AJGA alumni include Stewart
Cink, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Paula
Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Inbee Park and Morgan Pressel.
For more information, please contact Samantha Glover
(sglover@ajga.org) in the AJGA Communications Department at (678)
425-1796 or visit the tournament website.
To learn more about the Town of Killington, the tournament
sponsor, or Green Mountain National Golf Course, the host facility,
visit DiscoverKillington.com or GMNGC.com.
