Bo Cox, First Place
Bo Cox, despite recovering from surgery, posted a great score of 95 to take First Place at the AJGO Limestone Springs Tournament on December 31, 2008. We can’t wait to see Bo’s play when he is 100% healthy! Malcolm Green, who just moved up to the 16-19 age ground, carded a 102 to take Second Place. Malcolm has made huge improvements to his game in the past year and is now typically scoring in the 80′s.
Amanda Richey, First Place
Amanda Richey shot a round of 88 to take First Place at the AJGO Limestone Springs Tournament on Dec. 31, 2008. Carolyn McCalley shot a very strong round of 92 to secure Second Place. (We look forward to Carolyn’s younger sister, Meg, playing in 2009!) Third Place was Tori Smith with a round of 100.
Evan Holland, First Place
Evan Holland fired a 79 to take First Place at the AJGO Limestone Springs Tournament on December 31, 2008. Evan’s 79 was an especially strong score considering the windy and cold conditions. The always consistent Jordan Rockett took second place with a 93. Alex Norman post a 94 to take third place.
Hudson Graham, 1st Place
Under very windy conditions and temperatures in the low 50′s, Hudson Graham posted a very good round of 82 to take First Place in the Boys 14-15 Division. The always tough competitor, Witt McLeod, carded an 84 for second place. Daniel Tankersley and Juddy Carlton turned in the same score of 90 to tie for third place.
When we finalized our AJGO/PGA Summer Junior Tour schedule, we checked with the county and city school systems all across the State to determine the earliest school start date for classes. While we thought we have the earliest school start date- it turned out that we were “off” by 1 day. Unfortunately that 1 day was going to prevent a number of AJGO Members from playing in the Championship.
The only fair option was to move the Championship to a weekend so everyone could participate. However, even this wasn’t a perfect solution as several player have started college and as a result will miss the Championship.
Why didn’t we have the Championship on a weekend in August – because August is Club Championship Season and we simply could not find a golf course with an open weekend.
Next year we plan on getting the School Start Date “resolved” have hold the Championship before school starts.
Today we notified the Top-16 Players in each Age Group of the AJGO Points Standings that they are eligible to enter the 2008 AJGO/PGA Championship Tournament.
They have until August 21st to enter the Tournament. After August 21st we will make the available place(s) in the field open to the next highest ranked player(s) until the field is full.
We are headed to North Carolina to watch the US Amateur. Any of you who have played in an AJGO Tournament have met Will Wilcox – and Will qualified for the US Amateur. It’s the biggest amateur golf tournament in the world. Will has had a great Spring and Summer: he won his College Conference Championship, named First Team All-American, won the Alabama State Amateur and now he’s headed to historic Pinehurst #2 to play one of the toughest golf courses in the country. We’ll keep you posted about Will’s progress at the US Amateur.
If you have a golf website that you like a lot, let us know and we will see about including it on the AJGONews web page. Along as it has an RSS feed we should be able to add it to our news page without any problems. Content is a consideration, so we do our best to make sure that the websites are providing news that is suitable for all AJGO members.
We initially intended to write a weekly newsletter. Great idea, but really, really time consuming. Plus, the golfing news that we were finding was basically out of date by the following day.
So we finally decided to create the AJGONews web page which almost like a “self-publishing” newsletter. We use the news feeds to keep all of the information on the AJGONews web page “fresh.” Each news feed is re-freshed every 40 minutes. And most of the websites that we gather news from post 5 to 10 new stories each day.
We think the AJGONews web page is a pretty cool idea. We made a list of all of the golf websites that we normally visited daily for golf news. Then we created a web page that contains a “news feed” from each of these websites. This way, instead of visiting each website individually, we can simply go to the AJGONews web page and see the newest stories from each website. We even place a little orange “NEW” next to each article that has been posted in the last 24 hours!
To make the AJGONews page even more interesting we have been posting the photos that we take at the AJGO/PGA Tournaments on Flickr. Then we created a feed of our photos that display on the AJGONews page.
You may have also noticed the videos on the AJGONews page as well.
