JGAA Alumni Johnnie Clark dominated the Arizona Stroke Play Championship. He concluded the event at 19-under par for a five-shot victory.
JGAA Alumni Johnnie Clark dominated the Arizona Stroke Play Championship. He concluded the event at 19-under par for a five-shot victory.
Team Arizona – featuring Owen Bolles, Henry Dall, Nicholas Lyman and Trey Moore– came in eighth place at the 2024 Hogan Cup held at Riverside Golf & Country Club in Portland, Oregon, August 10-11. Southern California captured first place at a noteworthy 14-under par as a team.
Making it to the final day of play, the former JGAA player had her eyes set on the championship with a key matchup against No. 6 seed Rianne Malixi of the Philippines. The contest put on a full display of superb golf between the two amateurs.
JGAA alum Michael Feagles of Scottsdale captured the 81st Arizona Open Championship, firing 14-under par (66-65-65) at Papago Golf Course to win the 54-hole competition by one stroke over Mesa’s hard-charging Mark Baldwin.
Brody Leid of Phoenix topped the 16-players field in the Boys Championship division to win the 2024 Arizona Junior Match Play Championship contested at the Estancia Club, July 25-26.
For the second year, the Junior Golf Association of Arizona (JGAA) held the Sam Schanafelt Summer Classic in Scottsdale at Kierland Golf Club and Starfire Golf Club. Contested July 17-18, the event commemorates Sam Schanafelt, a fellow JGAA member who tragically lost his life in a 2022 automobile accident.
The 2024 PING Invitational, one of the Junior Golf Association of Arizona’s most sought-after events of the season, was held July 15-16 at Grand Canyon University Golf Course in Phoenix.
Connor Bringhurst of Scottsdale, winner of the Desert Mashie Championship, fired on all cylinders as the only player in the field to record two rounds in the 60s (69-64). With six birdies and an eagle on the par-5 17th, Bringhurst shot his lowest round of the season at 8-under par to blow past the rest of the competitors in the second round by six strokes.