July Newsletter-Correction

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Greetings from the NFJG Foundation and NFJG TOUR

Hey there NFJG Foundation Members, NFJG TOUR Players, Partners, Sponsors and Friends. I hope this email finds you well.

What a great season we have had. out of the 36 tour events which included 24 single day events and 12 multiple day events we only lost three events due to the Pandemic or weather.

The season is quickly coming to an end but no worries, the 2020-2021 schedule is being put in place right now and should be completed in the coming weeks. Now is a good time to voice your opinion and forward your ideas. Is there a golf course or type of event we didn't play on or conduct that you would like to? I love new ideas and would be happy to try anything if it fits the tours goals. Is there a "ROAD TRIP" you want to take?

We only have five events left in the season and the courses we end with are some of the best around and they provide all the challenges and views anyone golfer could imagine or desire for Florida courses. Timuquana Country Club, TPC Sawgrass, Slammer and Squire, Marsh Landing and Glen Kernan Country Club. What a great line up!

Fields have been outstanding over the last two months and the five remaining events will be filled up with wait lists, so get signed up today, so you don't miss out.

Our kids are now ready to take on the challenges of high school golf from August to November while the TOUR resets for the new season. The NFJG TOUR prepares our kids well and I'm sure everyone will represent their schools in fine fashion, if things get started on time. Good Luck to all!

To our SENIOR'S , THANK YOU for letting us be a part of your journey in golf. Your participation and involvement on tour has been very enjoyable to watch and I and the staff hope you learned a lot about golf, rules, keen competition, making friendships and mostly about life as you move on to your higher level education. Good Luck! and don't forget the newly formed "COLLEGIATE DIVISION" will be active during all holiday and summer breaks. You are invited!

STEFAN INK

Captures 30th Annual

"DR. GORDON IRA CLASSIC"

Ponte Vedra's Stefan Ink would card six birdies in round two on his way to capturing the Gold Cup. Ink would be just one bogey shy of having a perfect scorecard for the round. His five under par 67 would not only be the top player in this years “Elite Tour Boys Division, but it was also explosive enough to capture the OVERALL championship and be crowned the 2020 Dr. Gordon Ira Golf Classic Champion.

In 2019 Elizabeth Kondal became the first female to take the overall championship award in a "North Florida Junior Players Tour" event sponsored by "Redefined Lighting" and JAGA.

Kondal shot 70-69 for a five under par total during the 36 hole

junior championship to earn that honor. She'll be defending on July 13th and 14th.

THERE'S STILL TIME TO SIGN UP TO BECOME THE CITY CHAMPION!

Collegiate Division

Collegiate Champion Cody Carroll did not lead after round one with his four under pare 68, but he only trailed by one stroke behind our NFJG TOUR Staffer and past NFJGTOUR superstar Charles Collings. Collings would rip-out a very nice round of 67 to take home the over night lead. Both collegiate players would be paired in the final group and would continue their fine play in round two, but more birdies wins and Carroll would put together another great round of 68 to nip Collings by a single stroke.

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Next up for the Collegian's is the "Greater Jacksonville Junior Championship" on July 13th and 14th at Eagle Harbor Golf Club. The field is expected to be a good one, so sign up early. Collegian guests are welcome, so let's see what you got!

"Bring it" says Charles Collings.

THE RESULTS

MOSES COMPAAN

Jacksonville, Florida

BOYS 16-18

CHAMPION

STEFAN INK

Ponte Vedra, Florida

ELITE TOUR BOYS

CHAMPION

MATTHEW LEARY

St. Augustine, Florida

RISING TOUR BOYS CHAMPION

ASHLEY HUFFMAN

Ponte Vedra, Florida

ELITE TOUR GIRLS

CHAMPION

ALEXA FALLIS

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

RISING TOUR GIRLS CHAMPION

TREVOR CHALLICE

Palm Coast, Florida

BOYS 10-12

CHAMPION

BRADY DOUGAN

St. Johns, Florida

FOUNDATION CHAMPION

The 2019-2020 NFJG TOUR season is nearing the end of another great season. There's a few great events left, so sign up. If not, we'll see you in November with the start of the 2020-2021 season.

NFJG ELITE TOUR GIRLS

"A TOUR low score creates a great smile. For her outstanding play at the Dr. Gordon Ira Golf Classic Shanya Arasu was the recipient of a fully paid entry into the 2021 "SALLY".

A direct and compelling headline

NORTH FLORIDA PGA JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

This year the Royal St. Cloud Golf Links hosted the North Florida Section of the PGA "J unior PGA Championship". Numerous NFJG TOUR players competed in the annual championship and they represented the NFJF TOUR with fine fashion. Brody Stevenson led the field of 101 players after round one by firing a spectacular four under par 68 and Carson Brewer copied him in round two.

TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Four players completed the tournament at even par or better. Campbell Kennedy shot 70-70 to lead the North Florida contingency finishing four under par followed by Carson Brewer and Moses Compaan at three under, Adam Vermut finished even. Gatherburg's Annabele Mozingo led the NFJG Girls finishing 8th with scores of 74-72.

Great job to all!

PLEASE FILL OUT THOSE SURVEYS!

WE THANK YOU

2020 AWARDS BANQUET

SURVEY IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY

The 2020 Awards Banquet is currently set for Wednesday, August 19th at TPC Sawgrass, but there are concerns due to the coronavirus and we want to make sure the event makes sense at this time.

T hree options were proposed:

Have banquet as normal (with social distancing guidelines in mind.
Just host the scheduled golf and hand our trophies immediately after golf
Do not host event this year and arrange for award delivery or pick-up..

Awards to be determined

There are few awards still undecided. During the course of the year our junior tour players competed in 24 single day " Tournament Series" (TS) events. Our players also competed in 12 2-day " North Florida Junior Players Tour " (NFJPT) events. These 2-day events are normally called our "MAJORS". This tour was once called the " Web.com Junior Players Tour". Our season is broken down into three seasons (Fall, Spring and Summer) and for each of those seasons there is a "Tournament Series" point leader for each of the seven divisions. Then for the NFJPT events there is a point leader for Boys 13-18, Girls 13-18 and Boys 10-12 (no Foundation Division). This award is called the "TOP HONOR AWARD". TOGETHER the "TS" points and the "NFJPT" points are combined to determine our PLAYER OF THE YEAR for each division. So, to date, 14 Tournament Series point leaders have been determined and the Summer series is still ongoing and there are some very close battles. That is seven more awards totaling 21 awards for the "TS".

The there are seven "TOP HONOR" awards and seven POY awards yet to be determined. No doubt It's going to take until our season ending tournament the 'TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP" to determine those awards. Now that's at total of 35 awards.

Then we still need to determine the " Jack Nicklaus Award" recipients for outstanding SPORTSMANSHIP. This is voted on by the players.

The " Vardon Award" is our scoring average award.

Also there is the "Birdie Leader Award".

The St. Augustine Junior

Players receive exemptions to "St. Augustine Amateur" and The 2021 "SALLY"

MOSES COMPAAN

Fernandina, Florida

BOYS 16-18

CHAMPION

I hope you'll join us on September 14th as Brent Martineau from ACTION SPORTS JAX hosts another great event at The Golf Club at South Hampton

THE RESULTS!

ANTHONY RIVERA

St. Augustine, Florida

RISING TOUR BOYS CHAMPION

TYLER ANN WHITING

Port Orange, Florida

ELITE TOUR GIRLS

CHAMPION

MADDIE RATHJEN

St. Augustine, Florida

RISING TOUR GIRLS CHAMPION

BRODY STEVENSON

St. Augustine, Florida

ELITE TOUR BOYS

CHAMPION

TREVOR CHALLICE

Palm Coast, Florida

BOYS 10-12

CHAMPION

CONGRATULATIONS

Maddie Rathjen

Shanya Arasu

You're going to

" The SALLY" in 2021

BRADY DOUGAN

St. Johns, Florida

FOUNDATION DIVSION

CHAMPION

A TOUGH LESSON,

BUT RULES ARE ESTABLISHED FOR A REASON

Summer

TOURNAMENT SERIES

Is running smooth with great fields. Sign up early.

See what's happening this month .

CONGRATULATIONS!

FJT Exemptions Awarded

COMPILED LIST OF EXEMPTIONS

HOLE-IN-ONE

TODAY

Declan McCarthy

ACES King and Bears

Hole #3

Declan McCarthy admitted he didn't play particularly well during the opening round of the "St. Augustine Junior" shooting an 85, but he played perfect for one hole acing the par 3 third hole which was set at a distance of 180 yards. Declan's six iron was struck purely and never left the pin. A couple bounces and a roll to the bottom of the cup made for an easy eagle "1" and high fives by all.

GREAT SHOT DECLAN!

STAFF DAY

It ain't over

until the fat lady sings!

Every now again the NFJG TOUR Staff gets together to play one of area courses for a little fun and camaraderie. T his past month we hit the links at "Glen Kernan Country Club and what a great day we had on this fantastic golf course. This was for serious bragging rights. The teams were drawn by blind draw by the "A" players. Teams ending up being Jack Aschenbach and Mark Heeter, Charles Collings and Jody Clark and Kyle Jewett and Mike Charrie. For two holes, the match of "winners take all" remained even, but team Collings took a two stroke advantage in the next two holes with birdies at 3 and 5. Then it was team Aschenbach/Heeter who took charge with birdies on holes 6, 7, 8 and 10. Team Collings then birdied holes 14, 15 and 17 to go one up. On the 18th team Aschenbach drained a pressure birdie to take the challenge into extra holes. So, where was team Jewett? They were in the back having fun!

On the first sudden death hole Clark would bomb her drive to within 70 yards of the green and Collings would hit his shot to three feet and the team would both miss the breaking putt forcing a second hole. Aschenbach hit the par-5 green in two with a stinger 2-hybrid. The ball ended up in the back fringe some 60 feet from the pin and Heeter hit the "better than most" snaking chip which rolled right into the center of the cup for eagle and the bragging rights. Best part of the day besides the friendship and many laughs was collecting the $10 from team Collings and Clark!

RECORD YOUR HOLE-IN-ONE

& Support JUNIOR GOLF

Let's celebrate your great accomplishment of achieving

"THE PERFECT SHOT"

For your generous donation of $100 you will receive this specially designed

"Hole-In-One" Ring. The accompanying case will have printed on it all the details of your outstanding moment. You will also have your name and HIO information placed on the NFJG Foundation website for all to see and above all you'll be supporting the kids as they venture forward to achieve their goals.

For a $150 donation you will also receive one HIO hat which you can proudly display everywhere you go.

THANK YOU

for your outstanding support

of our future in golf.

Finally, I would once again like to thank all our sponsors and Foundation Partners for the continued support of our leading program. We strive to make our junior program the best and with your support the job is that much easier.

See you on the links!

Jack Aschenbach, PGA