Centennial Golf Club to host nation’s best juniors for second year, July 11-14
BRASELTON, Ga. – The AJGA will return to the state of Oregon, July 11-14, for the AJGA Junior at Centennial. This 54-hole stroke play event will feature 144 players from 12 states and six foreign countries. A total of 14 juniors will represent the host state.
Jay Burlison of Salinas, Calif., will look for his first win since 2008, where he captured the Mayakoba Junior Golf Classic. Burlison is a rising junior and most recently tied for second at the Southern Junior.
Kevin Murphy of Rogue River, Ore., will return to the field after a top-20 finish in 2010. Most recently, Murphy tied for 10th at the AJGA Junior at Diablo Grande. Also returning after a top-20 showing in 2010 is Sulman Raza of Eugene, Ore. Raza finished tied for third at the 2009 AJGA Junior at Wenatchee.
Another local, Dylan Wu of Medford, Ore., will return to Centennial Golf Club for a second year. Wu has compiled three top-10 AJGA finishes over the last year including a recent tie for seventh at the Junior All-Star at River Ridge.
In the Girls Division, Allisen Corpuz of Honolulu, is the highest-ranked player in the field. At No. 44 in the Polo Golf Rankings, Corpuz won the 2010 AJGA Junior at Quad Cities and has compiled five top-five AJGA finishes in her career.
Amy Lee of Brea, Calif., is No. 45 in the Polo Golf Rankings and returns to the AJGA Junior at Centennial after finishing tied for third in last year’s event. Lee also tied for second at the 2010 Emerson Junior Golf Classic and tied for fifth at the 2011 Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic hosted by Longbow Golf Club.
Caroline Inglis will participate close to home. The Eugene, Ore., native is playing in her second AJGA event after posting a top-20 finish at the 2011 AJGA Junior at Diablo Grande. Inglis also finished 11th at the Kathy Whitworth Invitational last March.
A practice round shotgun will be held Monday, July 11, at 1:30 p.m. First-round play will begin Tuesday, July 12 with first- and second-round tee times running from 7 – 8:50 a.m. and noon – 1:50 p.m. off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees at Centennial Golf Club. The 144-player field will be cut to 50 percent and ties with final-round tee times running Thursday, July 14 from 7 – 9 a.m. off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees. An awards ceremony will immediately follow the final round. Guests are welcome to attend and admission is free of charge.
Ranked as the No. 1 Best Golf Course in the region by readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, and as one of the Top 50 Public Courses in the Country in the 2010 Golf World Readers Choice Awards, Centennial Golf Club is a daily fee facility that features a spectacular 7,309-yard, par-72 layout, designed by John Fought. The golf course at Centennial was designed in a classic Donald Ross-style and takes full advantage of the spectacular views of Medford, Rogue Valley and the surrounding mountains. The name and theme of the project is a celebration of the many classic elements of the site and the bountiful Rogue Valley region. Other amenities at Centennial include an expansive practice facility and “The Pavilion” clubhouse that is home to the popular Centennial Grille. For more information about Centennial Golf Club please call 541-773-GOLF or visit www.centennialgolfclub.com.
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 5,000 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.
Titleist, the AJGA’s National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association’s success since 1989. Rolex, which is in its third decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Polo Ralph Lauren became the AJGA’s second Premier Partner.
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 Kristi Bradley (kbradley@ajga.org) in the AJGA Communications Department at
(678) 425-1786 or visit the AJGA website at ajga.org.
Contact:
Kristi Bradley, AJGA
(678) 425-1786
