{"id":14851,"date":"2023-08-08T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:04:03","slug":"23event102_preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/23event102_preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: 2023 PKBGT TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greensboro, NC –<\/strong> The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Tour<\/a> returns to historic Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club for the PKBGT Tour Championship at the home of our Tour namesake, Ms. Peggy Kirk Bell. Champions and top performers of the season will gather to Pine Needles, which has been voted annually as one of the top tracks in the Carolina\u2019s. The best of the tour converge at the home of golf in North Carolina for this 54 hole championship event.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

** 2023 Official Field<\/a><\/p>\n

** Tour Championship Leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n

The field of 84 competitors will be split into two separate divisions of play; the Bell National Division<\/a> and the Futures National Division<\/a>. There will be representatives from twelve different states along the east coast, ranging from Georgia to New York. We delve deeper into each division with our players to watch at the strongest junior golf event on the East Coast next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bell National<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Bell National Division field features 48 of the tour\u2019s top players, including 24 of the top 100 players on the PKBGT Performance Index<\/a> and 25 players ranked in the top 1000 on Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ranked #2 on the PKBGT Performance Index is Kathryn Ha <\/b>(Roanoke, VA 2025). Ha returns to the PKBGT Tour Championship as two-time defending champion and will be aiming for the rare three-peat. Not only did she win this event the past two years, but tied for fourth at the 10th PKBGT National Tournament of Champions and won the 2023 Spring Bell Invitational.<\/p>\n

Only four spots behind Ha is Emerson B. Dever<\/strong> (Durham, NC 2025), at #6 on the PKBGT Performance Index. The Durham native has had quite the season with top-5 finishes at the 14th Peggy Kirk Bell Junior, Cape Fear Girls Classic, Katherine Perry Hamski Tradition, Spring Bell Invitational, and the Precision Girls Jr. Championship.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP, the Bell National Order of Merit title will be awarded to the champion of the season long points race!<\/p>\n

Highest Ranked Players<\/strong><\/p>\n