Bermuda Run, NC-The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour began play at the twelfth annual PKBGT Invitational hosted at Bermuda Run Country Club. Played over Veterans Day weekend every year, the tour’s best compete on the West and East Course over two days, with the top thirty and ties advancing to the final round at the East Course. The PKBGT Invitational has the strongest field of the season every year, and 2020 was no different! Although a handful of players were unable to attend due to travel restrictions, ninety-percent of the field ranked inside the top 1000 on Junior Golf Scoreboard. Great weather, and this strong of a field provided plenty of LOW rounds.
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Sara Im (Duluth, GA 2023) and being in contention at PKBGT Championship events have become a consistent talking point across the National Series stage. The 2019 PKBGT Invitational runner-up picked up right where she left off in 2019 at the Bermuda Run West course, taking a commanding lead heading into moving day tomorrow on the East Course. The Peach State native played flawlessly to tie her career-low score at 63 (-9). Sara began her day with a birdie, followed by blue numbers on three, four, and five, and added one more to equal five for her outward nine. On the much harder side, Im went birdie-birdie-birdie, made par on the thirteenth, and then added two more birdies on fourteen and fifteen. The lone mistake for the Duluth, GA native came on the long par-three seventeenth, where her tee-ball came off the club funky and screamed to the high side of the sloping green. Im nearly picked up her bogey from seventeen when her birdie putt lipped out.
Sara has yet to win on the PKBGT Bell Circuit. Im has recorded eight runner-up finishes since 2019, the most out of any player since that time. A record-shattering round, Sara is now the record holder for the low round in the PKBGT Invitational, previously held by Katie Kirk, who fired a 66 (-5) back in 2012 at The Links at Stoney Point. She also beat Shannon Brooks score of 64 at Hunting Hawk in 2012 to hold the low round of any PKBGT event.
On the prowl, five strokes off the lead of Im, is 2019 Bell Tournament of Champions medalist Adrian Anderson (Murrels Inlet, SC 2022). Adrian carded a clean round of 68, including two birdies on both sides. Joining Adrian in second place is Melanie Walker (Burke, VA 2022). Walker went out in 32 (-3), and sandwiched between two birdies was Walker’s lone bogey on the fourteen to come home in 36 (-1). Anderson and Walker will be paired with the record holder Im in our final featured group of the second round at 11:00 AM off hole number one on the East Course.
1. Sara Im (Duluth, GA 2023) / 63 (-9)
T2. Adrian Anderson (Murrels Inlet, SC 2022) / 68 (-4)
T2. Melanie Walker (Burke, VA 2022) / 68 (-4)
T4. Paris Fieldings (Suffolk, VA 2023) / 70 (-2)
T4. Tatum Walsh (Midlothian, VA 2021) / 70 (-2)
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Round 2 will begin Sunday, November 8, at 9:30 AM with a double tee start, weather permitting.
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Founded in 2007 by Girls Golf of America, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, a local girls’ golf tour in the Triad region of North Carolina. The tour began as a simple concept: create more effective competitive playing opportunities for girls. By utilizing innovative yardage-based divisions instead of the traditional age-based format, the tour focused on developing tournament experience at the player’s pace. The 2020-2021 season will feature over 110 tournaments in 9 states on the East Coast, and with over 1,000 members, the PKBGT is the largest girl’s only tour in the country. Learn more about the PKBGT at http://www.pkbgt.org/.
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