Sponsored by Peoples Mortgage, the annual Jun-ior-Parent Team Championship was held Novem-ber 3, 2013 at Painted Mountain G.C. The event had a great turnout with over 70 participants tak-ing part in the tournament’s fun alternate shot format. The Best Dressed Team award was pre-sented to Makenzie Rowland and John Rowland. Congratulations to the winning teams in each of the divisions! For event photos, click here.

Boys 15-18: 1. Nam/Nam T2. Levy/Levy T2. Wicklund/Wicklund Boys 13-14: 1. Nam/Nam 2. Yelder/Yelder 3. Elmore/Elmore Boys 11-12: 1. Vickers/Vickers T2. Klose/Klose T2. Summerhays/Summerhays All Girls: 1. Benton/Benton 2. Red Horse/Red Horse 3. Rowland/Rowland

Junior-Parent Team Championship

IN THI S IS SU E :

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Boys Golf Club 5 Hauptman’s Free Golf Clinics

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LPGA*USGA Girls Golf

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JGAA Awards 7

Oct. TBAG! Clinic with ASU

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These Boys Are Good! Clinic Schedule

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J G A A S T A F F :

Tom Cunningham

- Executive

Director

Scott McNevin -

Assistant Execu-

tive Director

Zach Cox -

Tournament

Director

Brianna Espinoza

-Communications

Manager

Chaun

Groeneveld -

Office Assistant

Kathy Knadler -

LPGA-USGA Girls

Golf of Phoenix

Director

www.jgaa.org

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JGAA Fall Classic

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Boys 10 & Under:

1. Mahanth Chirravuri

2. Cameron Kaiser

3. Colton Horn

4. Ethan Klose

5. Nicklas Nuez

Boys 11-12:

1. Daniel Thompson

T2. Noah Nuez

T2. Tucker Clark

4. Joseph Kennedy

5. Scott Schlader

Girls 11-12:

1. Ashley Menne

2. Breyana Matthews

3. Alicia Shindo

4. Alexandra Mana-lang

5. Sydney Seigel

Boys 13-14:

1. Jorge Salazar

2. Tony Hendricks

3. John Menne

4. Cole Harris

5. Matthew Schwab

Girls 13-14:

1. Hannah Li

2. Tara Greig

3. Sarah Hameed

T4. Katelyn Allen

T4. Annabelle Huether

Girls 15-18:

1. Ciara Petronzio

2. Christina Ressa

3. Sara Padilla

4. Joanna Richardson

5. Isabella Larson

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Girls Championship:

1. Emily Mahar

2. Haylin Harris

3. Miranda Reyes

Boys 15-18:

1. Grant Rogers

2. Mason Andersen

3. Steven Jordan

T4. John-Henry Rudd

T4. Michael Lawson Jr

Boys Championship:

1. Trueman Park

2. Tyler Kathrineberg

3. Humza Hameed

On November 9-10 the Junior Golf Association of Arizona held its annual JGAA Fall Classic at Western Skies Golf Course and August Ranch Golf Course. Even with a limited field at this year’s event due to darkness, there was still the same great competition we have grown accustomed to at JGAA tourna-ments. In addition to the impressive scoring, two JGAA members each had a Hole-In-One on the final day of the event! First was Noah Nuez, 11, on hole #2 with his hybrid; and second was Nathaniel An-derson, 12, on hole #14 with his 5-iron. The two aces definitely added to the excitement of the event. Congratulations to all of the champions at this year’s Fall Classic! Everyone posted great scores!

For full field results, click here. For event photos, click here.

UPCOMING REGISTRATION DEADLINES:

November 13: Boys Golf Club—Turkey Trot

November 15: JGAA Awards Ban-quet RSVP Deadline

November 15: LPGA Girls Golf—Thanksgiving Team Tournament

November 28: JGAA Winter Classic

November 30: Holiday Tournament & TGR! Finale

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

November 3: Junior/Parent Team Championship

November 9-10: JGAA Fall Classic

November 16: JGAA Awards Banquet & 30th Anniversary Celebration

November 23: LPGA Girls Golf—Thanksgiving Team Tournament

November 23: Boys Golf Club—Turkey Trot

November 27: These Boys Are Good! FREE Clinic

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Sunday, October 27, the Boys Golf Club held its annual Halloween Howl event at The Leg-end at Arrowhead in Glendale, AZ. The Boys Golf Club thanks all of the parents and spec-tators who came out to support the players! Congratulations to all winners in their re-

spective divisions. For full field results, click here.

Hauptman Provides Free Golf Clinics While fulfilling her high school’s re-quired community service hours at St. Vincent de Paul’s medical clinic, JGAA Junior Board Member, Megan Hauptman, discovered the clinic’s need for additional youth group workouts in their Diabetes Preven-tion Department. Since the clinic’s regular schedule would be finishing at the beginning of the Summer, Hauptman decided to host a group

golf clinic for any kids who were interested. With the help of her father, Sarah Schmelzel, and Denny Schmelzel, Hauptman was able to hold 10 sessions this past summer, once a week, for 2 hours at Palo Verde Golf Course. “I am planning on doing it next summer. It was so fun intro-ducing them to a game that they wouldn't have exposure to otherwise!”

Rattler: 1. Hayden Morse 2. Nick Hedman

Scorpion: 1. Grant DuMars 2. Anawin Pkulthong 3. Luke Ferguson 4. Ryan Briones T5. Jake Steinkamp T5. Justin Ngov

Roadrunner: 1. Ian Christoffersen 2. Eli Asolas T3. Clay Ellis-Escobar T3. Jonah Thomas 5. Benjamin DuMars

Gecko: 1. Ryan Johnson 2. David Gross 3. Andrew Keaggy 4. Vedansh Gupta

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LPGA*USGA Girls Golf 2013 Schedule

The annual Haunted Golf scramble and pumpkin carving contest was host to over 60 girls and their family and friends on October 18th. The 4 and 5 girl scramble teams made their way around 4 spooky holes at Encanto Golf Course with a moonlit sky and the city scape as a backdrop. The flagsticks were lit with various colored glowsticks as well as the fairways and bunkers to guide the players and spectators around the course. If the teams weren’t chasing their lit golf balls around the moonlit golf course, they were carving and decorating their pumpkins to resemble minions, hamburgers, pirates, witches and a breast cancer symbol to name just a few. The creativity amongst the 14 pumpkins was outstanding and made for a tough decision for the pumpkin carving judges. The event was a memorable experience for the new Itty Bitty division players and their families as well as the 18 hole players in the Solid Championship Division.

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The very first of the These Boys Are Good! clinics was held October 12, at ASU Karsten with the help of the ASU Men’s Golf Team and PGA Professional, Scott Watkins. Held by the JGAA, the Southwest Section PGA, The First Tee of Phoenix and The Boys Scouts of America-Grand Canyon Council, the event hosted almost 100 boys at the ASU Karsten practice facility to learn about golf and the First Tee of Phoenix’s Life Skills curriculum. Several of the participants were active Boy Scouts and had the oppor-tunity to earn their golf merit badge. Thanks to all of the organizations who were involved with this great event! All involved are excited for the next These Boys Are Good! clinic which will be held Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at Palm Valley GC. We hope to see you there! For photos of last month’s event, click here.

October These Boys Are Good! Clinic

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These Boys Are Good! FREE Clinics

10888 N. 19th Ave

Phoenix, AZ 85029

Main: (602) 944-6168

www.jgaa.org

JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA

30TH ANNIVERSARY

JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA was

established in 1983. We appreciate and

consider it a privilege to have served junior

golf and look forward to the next 30 years!

Golf for Life!