On Monday, May 27, the 2013 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour concluded the OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP at Country Club of Salisbury. Country Club of Salisbury, a historic Donald Ross course, is a great venue for the third major tournament of the 2013 season. There was a record-breaking 118 entries received for the event, but the field was cut to 96 players hailing from nine states. The field is quite strong with 11 event champions from the 2013 season, 16 of the top 500 players ranked nationally by Junior Golf Scoreboard, 28 players ranked inside the top 100 for their class by Junior Golf Scoreboard, and the defending 2012 PKBGT OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Bell Division champion.
Jillian Hollis (Rocky River, OH 2015) is golden!
In the Bell Division, Hollis carded one under par with a score of 70 to place first with 73 + 70 + 70 = 213. Hollis’s three-day total is a new tournament record for the OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. Sarah Bertram (Concord, NC 2013) carded one under par with a score of 70 to place second with 81 + 69 + 70 = 220. Emilia Migliaccio (Cary, NC 2017) and Payton Schanen (Kennesaw, GA 2015) tied for third with three-day totals of 222 each. With their top-three finishes, Hollis, Bertram, Migliaccio, and Schanen all received exemptions into the sixth major tournament of the season, the Tournament of Champions, which is being held at Moss Creek Country Club (North Course) in Hilton Head Island, SC in September.
PKBGT returns to action in two weeks on Monday, June 10 with the One-Day Open Series @ Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro, NC. The tournament brings together players from North Carolina and Virginia. It should be a great tournament.
The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour is an initiative of the Triad Youth Golf Foundation, 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 low cost, nationally ranked girls’ golf tournaments designed to prepare junior girls’ golfers for high school and collegiate golf. The PKBGT is the nation’s largest “girls’ only” junior tour with over 330 members in 2012, 137 alumni in the collegiate ranks and 29 National Letter of Intent signees for fall 2013. Learn more about the tour at pkbgt.org or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at mparker@pkbgt.org or 336-347-8537.
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