Peggy Dodds Memorial / 88th Sacramento City Junior Championship Recap
This year, like many years in the past, our participants were greeted on both days with high temperatures of 105 degrees. These temperatures are typical for a tournament generally played around the 4th of July each year. The players that weathered this heat wave were treated to great course conditions thanks to the able, friendly, and helpful staff at Haggin Oaks. Our SGC volunteers were actively around the course both days reminding our players of the importance of pace of play and providing water as needed, especially under these hot conditions.
The overall winner this year for 16-18 Girls, was Melia Gustavson with a 72-69 / 141 total. Only 1 shot back was Sophia Lee 73-69 / 142 First Place Winner, second place went to defending champion Lexi Booras 73-72 / 145 and 3rd Place went to Audrey Cheng 75-70 / 145.
Our overall winner for the 16-18 Boys, was played from the MacKenzie tees, for the first time this year, is Chase Yukawa with a 70-69 / 139 total. Luke Harrison carded a 69-72 / 141 for 1st Place. Aiden Sweeny and Brady Barrington tied for second place with 142’s and a card playoff with Aiden Sweeny taking 2nd place and Brady Barrington taking 3rd place.
For the 14-15 Boys, Jacob Garibaldi took 1st place with a 75-72 / 147. Reid Bulman took 2nd with 149, and Blake Whittington took 3rd place with 149 after a card playoff.
For the 12-13 Boys, Thomas Graham 76-69 / 145 took first place. Harrison Beinke 147 took 2nd place and Kheean Nathoo took 3rd place, with a 157.
For the Girls 14-15, Serene Kim takes 1st place with a 70-74 / 144. Diya Kumar takes 2nd place 72-73 / 145 and Allison Chan takes 3rd place with 148.
For the Girls 12-13, First place goes to Danica Hidayat 154. Second place goes to Lucy Jerde 159 and Third place went to Abigail Hong 160.
For our 7-12’s Boys and Girls, we played 9 holes each day at the Arcade Course.
For the 10-11 Boys, We had a tie between Harrison Elliott and Matthew Lengefield with Harrison Elliott taking the sudden death playoff on hole #3. So Harrison Elliott 42-37 / 79 takes 1st place. Matthew Lengefeld 39-40 / 79 takes 2nd place. Rishan Dey took 3rd place with a 41-39 / 80.
For the 7-9 boys, Stanford Gilmore was on fire on day 2 shooting 41-34 / 75 taking first place. Sebastian Shea 37-39 / 76 was second and Davis Reich 52-61 / 113 was third.
For the 10-11 Girls Madison Roycroft 38-34 / 72 takes 1st place. Reign Waterman 38-39 / 77 takes 2nd place and Grace Delaitoga 42-36 / 78 takes 3rd place.
For the 7-9 Girls Ava Colter 40-43 / 83 takes first place by herself.
An important side note: Cade Snoke aced #14 on Mackenzie on 7/3 earning him a box of Pro V1s, courtesy of the Sacramento Golf Council
Congratulations to all participants. With tough heat conditions existing I am very proud of all the participants and look forward to seeing most of you again next year.
My best,
Steve Yates / Tournament Director
