{"id":5521,"date":"2014-03-23T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2014-03-28T02:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:28:50","slug":"14event4_recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/14event4_recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Hough is Golden at Rocket Tour PLAYERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/images\/courses\/chateauelan.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Sunday, March 23, the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\">Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a> concluded the <a href=\"http:\/\/pkb.shotstat.com\/Tour\/TournamentDetail.aspx?TID=1544\">Rocket Tour PLAYERS<\/a> at Creekside Course at Pebble Creek Club. \u00a0Rainy weather was the story of the today but it did not deter solid scoring from the field. \u00a0The event featured a field of 40 players from the PKB Girls\u2019 Golf Tour, the nation\u2019s largest \u201cgirls\u2019 only\u201d junior tour with over 375 members in 2013 and 262 girls playing in or committed to collegiate golf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Bell Division,\u00a0Anne Taylor Hough (2015, Spartanburg, SC), who has verbally committed to play collegiate golf at Virginia Tech, cruised to a 6-shot victory in claiming her first PKBGT Championship. \u00a0Hough started strong, making eagle on her first hole of the day, #10, by holing out from the fairway. \u00a0Her strong play continued, shooting even par on her first 9 and then capped her victory on her final hole to shoot 73-73-146. Furman commit\u00a0Natalie Srinivasan (2016, Spartanburg, SC) took second place in the Bell Division, shooting solid rounds of 74 and 78 to finish at 152. \u00a0A three-way tie for third was settled on a scorecard play-off with Katie Turk (2015,\u00a0Blacksburg, VA) coming out on top, with\u00a0Savanah Goodman (2016, Easley, SC) &amp;\u00a0Jacqueline Twitty (2015, Chapin, SC) taking 4th and 5th respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Futures Division, Katharina Floyd (2020, Chapel Hill, NC) tied for the low round of the day with a 78 to claim a two -shot lead. \u00a0Katharina shot 81-78-159 to claim her 2nd title of the year and her first PKBGT Championship.  Alyssa Montgomery (2019, Knoxville, TN) also shot a 78 on day 2 and finished tied for 2nd at 83-78-161. \u00a0PKBGT newcomer Sarah Fite (2017, Russelville, KY) tied with Montgomery at two-shots back and took third. \u00a0Woo Wade (2019, Dunwoody, GA) finished 4th at 163, 4 shots off the pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With their victory&#8217;s, Hough &amp; Floyd both received class A exemptions into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/tournaments_toc.php\">Tournament of Champions<\/a> this fall. With their runner-up and third place finishes, Srinivasan, Turk, Montgomery, and Fite\u00a0all received class B exemptions into the Tournament of Champions in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PKBGT returns to action next week with the <a href=\"http:\/\/pkb.shotstat.com\/Tour\/TournamentDetail.aspx?TID=1548\">Boar&#8217;s Head Inn Classic @ Birdwood Golf Course at UVA.<\/a> The event brings together players from Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\">Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a> is an initiative of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tygf.org\">Triad Youth Golf Foundation<\/a>, a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation aimed at increasing learning and playing opportunities for youth golfers. Based out of Greensboro, North Carolina, the PKBGT offers affordable, high-quality nationally ranked girls\u2019 golf tournaments designed to prepare junior girls\u2019 golfers for high school and collegiate golf. The PKBGT is the nation\u2019s largest \u201cgirls\u2019 only\u201d junior tour with over 375 members in 2013 and 262 girls playing in or committed to collegiate golf. Learn more about the tour at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\">pkbgt.org<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:mparker@pkbgt.org\">mparker@pkbgt.org<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> or 336-347-8537.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pkb.shotstat.com\/TournamentScoring\/Scoreboard.aspx?TID=1544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"View Event Photos\" alt=\"View Event Photos\" src=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/button_blog_scoreboard.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, March 23, the 2014 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour concluded the Rocket Tour PLAYERS at Creekside Course at Pebble Creek Club. \u00a0Rainy weather was the story of the today but it did not deter solid scoring from the field. \u00a0The event featured a field of 40 players from the PKB Girls\u2019 Golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[233,520,576,572,582],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event_news","tag-anne-taylor-hough","tag-boars-head-inn-classic-birdwood-gc-at-uva","tag-katharina-floyd","tag-peggy-kirk-bell-girls-golf-tour","tag-rocket-tour-players-pebble-creek-club-creekside-course"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recap: Hough is Golden at Rocket Tour PLAYERS - PKB Girls&#039; 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