The TJGT Sooner Major Championship event was played at Jimmie Austin Golf Club on the campus of The University of Oklahoma and was the lone TJGT event of the weekend that was able to get in a full 36-holes. This golf course has hosted the 2009 USGA Public Links Amateur Championship and will do so again in 2013.
Players from TX, LA, OK, AR, and Mexico battled it out in extremely tough conditions with the Boys 12-18 playing 6,876 yards and Boys 12-18 playing 5,815 yards in this 36-hole, nationally-ranked event. The OU Women’s coach and the coach from Oklahoma Christian were there scouting the competition.
Day 1 was challenging for all players due to 40+mph wind gusts which caused the course to play extremely long. The fast, firm, undulating greens proved to be tricky for the field. However, there were several good rounds including Haley Mills’ 74. On the boys’ side, eventual champion Max McGreevy posted a round 1 leading 75.
Day 2 proved to also be challenging, but for different reasons. The rain arrived after 9 holes. It drizzled and rained lightly for the last part of the round. Erica Lautensack’s even par 72 was the best round of the day for the girls. Tyler’s Haley Mills posted another 74 which was enough to maintain her lead and win the tournament. Other spotlight rounds were Maci Arrington and Lindsey McCurdy who both shot 73 in the second round to secure a top 5 finish.
Top 3 finishers:
Boys 12-18
1st place Max McGreevy Edmond, Ok 2013 75-69=144
2nd place Eloy Gonzalez Laredo, Tx 2012 78-69=147
3rd place Dylan Rodriguez Lewisville, Tx 2012 76-72=148
Girls 12-18
1st place Haley Mills Tyler, Tx 2013 74-74=148
2nd place Erica Lautensack Arlington, Tx 2014 82-72=154
3rd place Hayley Dambold Flower Mound, Tx 2013 78-76=154
Playoff details: In the girls division we had a playoff for second. Erica Lautensack of Arlington defeated Flower Mounds’s Haley Dambold with a par on the first playoff hole (hole #9)
In the boys division we had two playoffs. In the playoff for 3rd place, Mesquite’s Garrett Fey made par to defeat Dlyan Rodriguiz from Lewisville. Dylan earned 4th place. In the playoff for 5th, there were four boys for one place. Plano’s Preston Standley made birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat Logan Gray, Rustin Purser and Tyler Hargus for fifth place.
AJGA PBE
AJGA Boys 12-18 Max McGreevy Edmond, Ok 2013
AJGA Girls 12-18 Haley Mills Tyler, TX 2013
