Welcome to the Texas Junior Golf Tour - "The Road to College Golf"

TJGT Overview

The Texas Junior Golf Tour (TJGT) was founded in 1989 in Austin, Texas, when several Austin High School golf coaches and parents realized a need for a higher level competition during the fall and winter season that would supplement high school golf along with regional PGA/USGA events and provide national exposure to collegiate golf programs. The TJGT started with just eight tournaments and has since expanded to include more than 75 events, year around, in the 2009/10 season that offer AJGA Performance Based Entry (PBE) as well as Golfweek rankings, amateur & professional mini-tour exemptions.  Tournaments in 1989 consisted of only local Austin/San Antonio players and have grown into some of the strongest fields in junior golf. Players from coast to coast as well as many international countries, such as Mexico, Scotland, Venezuela, Ecuador, Canada and Korea, are now participating. Presently, TJGT invitationals are played at venues such as UT Golf Club @ Texas, Traditions @ Texas A & M, Jimmy Austin GC @ University of Oklahoma, Twin Rivers GC @ Baylor University, Redstone GC, TPC Four Seasons and the Houstonian CC that host PGA Tour events.

The TJGT has produced more than 2000 collegiate golfers at all levels of the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA who have received either a golf or academic/leadership scholarship. TJGT’s scholarship success rate for graduating seniors has exceeded over 85% for boys and 95% for girls in the past three years.  Former TJGT players have accomplished great honors playing collegiate golf or academic success.  TJGT players are now playing on the PGA & LPGA tours, won national championships at every level as well as accomplished great achievements thru their academic studies. TJGT players every year line the All-American golf and academic teams.  For example, 2009 Division I National Champion Texas A & M played with three former TJGT players with former TJGT standout Bronson Burgoon executing one of the most famous shots in college golf history. Additionally, McLennan Community College also won the 2009 NJCAA National Championship with four TJGT players.

Presently, the leadership of the TJGT staff & Board of Directors are unique from the majority of junior tours.  TJGT’s leadership consists of parents & former college coaches of TJGT players, High School standouts, American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) players as well as current & former collegiate players. For example, TJGT Board of Directors’ Chairman Mike Neece, was a member of the great University of Houston National Champion teams and played professionally. Coach Monzingo, TJGT’s VP/Director of Operations was an outstanding collegiate golfer, twenty year high school coaching veteran and a former college coach at Eastern New Mexico and University of Oklahoma. The tournament staff is made up of more than 50 Texas high school golf coaches with multiple years of experience with junior golf and high school age players.  TJGT has selected the best and most respected coaches to join the operational staff.

Overall, the TJGT leadership has years of “hands on” experience with their own children at all levels of junior, collegiate and amateur golf to help each TJGT family navigate “The Road to College Golf”.  There is no sacrifice for this “hands on” experience when navigating members thru elite junior golf, AJGA and the college recruiting/scholarship process.  The entire staffs of fellow parents & coaches consider it an honor to serve each family to fulfill their dreams of playing college golf or receiving an academic/leadership scholarship.

Leaderboards

Archived Results

• 2009 Red River
• 2008-09 TJGT Tour
• 2008-09 Elite Mini-Tour
• 2007/08 season
• 2008 Red River
• 2006/07 season

The Clubhouse