Junior Golf News
Pair Of 8s Stewart, Lehigh Claim Titles at Colorado Junior PGA Championship By Gary Baines – 06/12/2019 Earlier this month, Dillon Stewart of Fort Collins and Lauren Lehigh of Loveland were honored as “Future Famers” by the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame. On Wednesday at Eisenhower Golf Club at the Air Force Academy, Stewart and Lehigh gave anyone who cared to watch a glimpse of what that future might look like. In the first major of the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado’s 2019 season, the 2018 JGAC Players of the Year matched eight-stroke victories against strong fields at the Colorado Junior PGA Championship at Eisenhower’s Blue Course. To put those margins into perspective, Stewart’s eight-shot victory is the largest in the boys Colorado Junior PGA in more than a decade. And Lehigh’s is the second-largest on the girls side over that same period, surpassed only by Hailey Schalk’s 11-stroke win two years ago. As fellow competitor Connor Jones of Westminster said after seeing Stewart hit his second shot on the par-5 16th hole to 3 1/2 feet from the hole for an eagle
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opportunity: “Kid’s a stick.” Added TJ Shehee of Mead, who also played in the final group with Stewart on Wednesday: “I would have liked to have beaten Dillon, but he just went off today. Yeah, I couldn’t quite catch him — not with (his) 5 under on the back nine. I shot 2 under on the back and played one of my best back nines of the year, and he shot 5 under, so what can you do? And it could have been lower for him.” Dillon Stewart kept the pedal down on Wednesday, closing with a back-nine 31 for his first JGAC major title. Stewart said he was just following some wisdom imparted by his future college golf coach, Oklahoma State’s Alan Bratton.
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