Month: June 2016

Three JTNC Players Advance to U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship

Redwood Shores resident Lucy Li and five others are headed to this year’s U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship at Ridgewood CC in New Jersey.

Li, the darling of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open, carded a 5-under 67 to earn medalist honors Monday in a qualifier held at par-72 Merced Golf and Country Club. Still only 13 years old, Li posted six birdies with just one bogey. She’d card a 3-under 33 on the back-nine.

Placing second with a 71 was Danville resident Ty Akabane. Akabane recently shot a 66 at the Junior Tour of Northern California Spring Series VII Championship. The 5-under 66 was the third lowest Girls’ score in JTNC history.

Third place went to Concord’s Yealimi Noh, who won the 2014 California Junior Girls’ State Championship, at 72.

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Also advancing were Grace Fitzgerald of Poway (76), North Tustin’s Katie Stribling (76) and Kayla Sam of Anaheim Hills (77).

The first alternate spot went to Tiffany Kong of Vancouver at 78. Rocklin’s Nicole Schroeder (78) is the second alternate.

This year’s U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship will be held July 18-23.

JTNC Alum Justin Suh Headed to Oakmont

June 7, 2016

San Jose resident Justin Suh, who won JTNC Player of the Year honors in 2013 and 2015, is headed to Oakmont Country Club for this year’s U.S Open.

A sophomore at USC, Suh shot back-to-back rounds of 67 to finish at 8-under 134, tied for second at Monday’s U.S. Open Sectional qualifier held at par-71 Olympic Club (Ocean Course) and par-72 Lake Merced Golf Club. He was the lone amateur to grab one of the automatic spots into the U.S. Open.

“It feels really good. I’m sort of speechless,” Suh said. “I’m going to Oakmont. I can’t put it to words.”

A week ago, Suh, who’ll turn 19 on Sunday, held the lead after the second round of the NCAA Championship. He’d finish T-10. In 2015, he won the San Francisco City Championship at TPC Harding Park.

Suh, the only male player to win Junior Tour of Northern California Player of the Year honors twice (2013, 2015),

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