A full field of 98 young golfers, aged 12 and younger, competed at the MJT Mini Tour at GreenTee Country Club in Langley recently.
Highlights of the May 13 competition included another impressive performance by 11-year-old Jenny Guo, of West Vancouver, who finished the day at two-under par (70) to claim MJT Girls low overall honours, while MJT boys low overall was won by Jackson Wang, 11, of Surrey, after he fired a sizzling 68 (-4).
Wang’s five birdie performance on the back nine sealed the deal in an impressive comeback as he was down by one at the turn.
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Hannah Adeleye, seven, was the top Langley golfer, finishing third in girls’ 8U, with Vancouver’s Luna Zhou and White Rock’s Stella Sun first and second.
Players were competing for titles in six divisions. Winners of each received exemptions into the season-ending MJT Mini Tour National Championship in Tsawwassen, this August, and the top two in each division qualify for the MJT Mini Tour Order of Merit (OOM) Invitational at Quilchena Golf and Country Club in Richmond, on May 27.
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The next 12U stop in the province is the MJT Mini Tour at Cheam Mountain Golf Club in Chilliwack, on June 11.
The non-profit Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour is Canada’s number one-played Junior Golf Tour as well as the only national junior tour run exclusively by PGA of Canada Professionals and the ‘Road to College Golf’ in Canada.
MJT hosts 100 events across Canada, including free Ford Go Golf Junior Clinics, the MJT Mini Tour for 12U and multi-day events for competitive players aged 11-19 which also offer qualifiers for international tournaments.
The program has annual awards, scholarships and incentives to help reward performance and participation throughout each season.
MJT alumni include many Professional Tour players and PGA of Canada Professionals, as well as Canadian Amateur, National and Provincial Junior Champions.
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