Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado News claim the championship. Stewart played his final seven holes in 3 under and McCoy his final five in 3 under. Captaining the team once again this year was Jensen, the former CGA managing director of operations, who is now an associate dean at the University of Jamestown (N.D.), his alma mater. Jensen has captained or co-captained every Colorado boys JAC team but three since 2005. Though he’s back in North Dakota full time now, he volunteered for duty in Montana with the CGA and Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado staffs busy with the Girls Junior Americas Cup in Evergreen and the CoBank Colorado Open in Denver. “It’s crazy. There’s so many years with so many great players. You just never know if and when (winning a title) is going to happen,” Jensen said on Thursday. “These guys were awesome this week. They continued to score constantly. It was just birdie after birdie after birdie. They didn’t complain about anything; they just got in and played. “We made our par for the course this week 69 and we ended up shooting 1 stroke over par for what we hoped. Twenty-seven under par was the hope and we shot 26 and won by one. I guess we guessed right before the tournament.” As for Stewart, the senior-to-be at Fossil Ridge High School prevailed by two strokes for the individual title. Stewart, who will play his college golf at perennial national power Oklahoma State starting in 2019, carded rounds of 64-68-68 for a 16-under-par 200 total. Last month’s AJGA Hale Irwin Colorado Junior champion finished the week with an eagle, 20 birdies, four bogeys and one double bogey for 54 holes. Stewart gained the upper hand early in the round when
36-hole leader Zachary Jones of Utah pumped two shots out of bounds and took a quadruple-bogey 8 on No. 4. “That kind of flipped everything,” Stewart said. “But I tried not to think about that too much because there was so much golf left to play. ... But I’m just happy we won as a team.” Stewart placed 13th individually at last year’s JAC. He qualified for this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur, which was contested this month. The University of Denver-bound McCoy placed 14th on Thursday, closing with a 69 for a 212 total. Bryant, who finished ninth individually in last year’s JAC, tied for 17th this week at 213. The 16-year-old Franklin shared 27th place at 215. All in all, you couldn’t get a much better week for the Coloradans, who emerged with both the team and individual titles and had a great time in the process. “It’s a really fun tournament because we don’t really get to play many team events like this one until we get to college,” Bryant said. “It’s a fun time to spend with your buddies. We jack around and have fun, but also played some pretty good golf while we were at it. It was a really fun week and we’re really glad to finish it off this way.” 1. (out of 18 teams) Colorado 205-208-209--622 1. Dillon Stewart, Fort Collins 64-68-68--200 14. Cal McCoy, Highlands Ranch 71-72-69--212 17. Davis Bryant, Aurora 70-70-73--213 27. Walker Franklin, Broomfield 73-70-72--215 For all the scores from the JAC, CLICK HERE.
Wrapping Up at Valhalla
McCoy finishes 29th, Bryant 60th in their final national Boys Junior PGA Championship by Gary Baines - 8/3/2018 Roughly a month before beginning their college golf careers at Colorado-based universities, Cal McCoy of Highlands Ranch and Davis Bryant of Aurora were putting some of the final touches on their junior golf careers this week in Louisville, Ky. Neither played anywhere close to his best on Friday at Valhalla Golf Club, but both can say they easily made the cut in the national Boys Junior PGA Championship. The University of Denver-bound McCoy finished 29th out of 144 players, while Bryant was 60th.
McCoy went into the final round in 10th place, but shot a 6-over-par 78 on Friday, which left him at 3-over 291 overall. He made two double bogeys and five bogeys in the final round, along with three birdies, including one on his final hole. He ended up 14 strokes behind champion Akshay Bhatia of Wake Forest, N.C., who closed with a 68. Bryant, a teammate of McCoy's on the Colorado team that won the Junior America's Cup last week, posted a final-round 79 for a 299 total. The future Colorado State University golfer, who placed 14th in this event last year, made one birdie and eight bogeys on Friday.
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