Golf Editor

Tony Hendricks of Phoenix and Ashley Menne of Surprise earn first-place honors in the Boy and Girls Championship Divisions at the Thunderbird Junior Classic held June 13-14 on Arizona Biltmore Golf Club’s Adobe course. With the largest field in the JGAA circuit, the tournament hosted 221 boys and girls in five age divisions.

Samuel Salisbury of Green Valley qualified to play in the U.S. Junior Amateur after taking third place in the qualifier held at Tucson Country Club on June 11 with a 3-under-par 68, two strokes behind medalist Kento Yamawaki of Encinitas, California (5-under 66) and one behind second-place finisher Cameron Sisk (67) of El Cajon, California.

Gilbert resident Kohl Kuebler notched his second-consecutive JGAA win in the Boys Championship Division by firing a 5-under-par 205 (67-71-67) at Encanto G.C. at the Antiqua Milt Coggins AZ Junior Stroke Play, a 54-hole event held June 5-7.

Gilbert’s Kohl Kuebler and Madeleine Laux of Goodyear turned in exceptional performances to notch wins in the Boys and Girls Championship Divisions at the Tucson City Junior Championship, held at Randolph North Golf Course and Dell Urich Golf Course May 30-31.

Celebrate Women in Golf on June 5 at Networking-and-Play Event The LPGA’s Bank of Hope Founders Cup will present this year’s second What’s Fore Lunch women’s networking event on Women’s Golf Day, Tuesday, June 5, from…

Every Memorial Day weekend since 2000, the world’s best junior golfers gather at Grayhawk to compete in the Thunderbird International Junior featuring 78 boys and girls from across the world…

Each year The Thunderbirds and the JGAA host a special one-round tournament at Gainey Ranch Golf Club to honor Arizona’s senior class of high school golfers who played during the…

Zachary Erskine of Chandler shot a 6-over-par 150 (75-75) to win by six strokes over Beau Reutter of Phoenix (79-77—156) in the Boys Championship Division at the Bruce Brown Yuma…

George Markham hits the motherlode on his way to the NCAA DII Men’s Golf Championships. A junior “Oredigger” at the Colorado School of Mines and JGAA alum, George Markham tunneled…

Congratulations to longtime JGAA member Jake Chanen on his second consecutive win at the Arizona Stroke Play Championship. Contested on his home course, GCU Golf Course, the sophomore Antelope fired…