{"id":10841,"date":"2019-07-19T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2019-07-20T01:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T01:30:50","slug":"19event63_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/19event63_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: 2019 PKBGT Precision Girls&#8217; Championship at Bryan Park Golf Course (Champions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Friday, July 19, the P<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> played the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Tournament\/TournamentDetails\/0\/PRECISION-JR-GIRLS-CHAMPIONSHIPS--Bryan-Park\/11340\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019 PKBGT Precision Girls\u2019 Championship at Bryan Park Golf Course (Champions)<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Greensboro, NC.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rays of sun peered through the tree-lined driveway leading into Bryan Park Golf Course. The light highlighted a thick haze, just a preview of the stagnant air to come in the first round of the PKBGT Precision Girls\u2019 Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A scenic Lake Townsend set the backdrop to the final stretch, a challenging back nine to close out a strenuous afternoon on the Champions Course. The field of 51 competitors was battle-tested, from stifling heat to tricky greens and tight fairways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PKBGT and Precision Golf School headquarters hosted Friday\u2019s first round of the 17th annual PKBGT Precision Girls\u2019 Championship, presented by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/precisioninstruction.com\/golf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Precision Golf School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At 10 a.m., the first ping of a driver resonated through the fairways and across the lake. From there, the PKBGT took over Bryan Park, matching Mother Natures boiling temperatures with red hot play on the course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tournament remains up for grabs in both the Bell National and Futures National divisions. With one round left to make a surge, let\u2019s take a look at where the leaderboard stands following the first round of play!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Bell National\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lighting up the Bell National leaderboard with an under-par performance, <\/span><b>Jacyln Kenzl <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Southern Pines, NC 2020) jumped out to an early two-stroke lead on Friday. Kenzl kickstarted her 70 (-2) with a two-under-par 34 on the front nine. She tacked on two more birdies on an even-par back nine, holding on to the top spot entering Saturday\u2019s final round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a tie for second place, <\/span><b>Molly Hardwick <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Lexington, SC 2022) and <\/span><b>Kiera Bartholomew <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Westampton, NJ 2023) each posted even-par 72 first-round scores. Hardwick posted three birdies on the afternoon and finished strong, hoping to ride the momentum a one-under-par 35 back nine into her final round. Bartholomew kept a clean scorecard throughout her round and made four birdies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rounding out the Bell National top five, in a two-way tie for fourth place is <\/span><b>Maria Atwood <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Holly Springs, NC 2022) and <\/span><b>Autumn Carey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Manning, SC 2022). Both players finished Friday\u2019s round with scores 73 (+1). Atwood found her form on the back nine with a one-under-par 35. Carey took the opposite approach, roaring out of the gates with a one-under-par 35 of her own on the front nine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Futures National\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grabbing on to the first-round lead in the Futures National division, <\/span><b>McKayla Daffin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Fayetteville, NC 2021) caught fire on an even-par back nine, finishing the afternoon with a 75 (+3). She dropped three birdies on the afternoon and looks to make that a regular occurrence in the final round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hope Garcia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Suffolk, VA 2023) joined Daffin with an even-par back nine, finishing one stroke behind the leader in second place. Garcia\u2019s 76 (+4) came on behalf of two birdies, both drained along her final stretch of play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right in the thick of things, <\/span><b>Grace Ridenour <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Cary, NC 2025) departed Bryan Park just two strokes back of the leader in third place after posting a 77 (+5) on Friday. Ridenour made two birdies in her round and looks to shake off the few bumps she experienced on the final stretch of her first-round and rally to the top of the leaderboard on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hanging just behind, <\/span><b>Ellen Yu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(High Point, NC 2026) currently holds on to fourth place on the leaderboard after a first-round 78 (+6). Yu, like Ridenour, experienced a rough finish on Friday afternoon but performed well enough to compete for a top spot in the final round. She made two birdies and an eagle throughout her round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Closing out the top five of the Futures National division, <\/span><b>Sophie Lauture <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Raleigh, NC 2024) and <\/span><b>Ellie Hildreth <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Wilmington, NC 2025) are tied for fifth place with one round to play. Both girls finished Friday with scores of 79 (+7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Looking Forward\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tee times for Saturday\u2019s final round commence early in the morning, though the sun is sure to be stifling for the second day in a row. The tight race in both divisions promises for an exciting finish and another chance for scores to match the atmosphere&#8217;s intensity. Will Kenzl match her first-round fire? Who will pull away in the jam-packed Futures National leaderboard? Follow live scoring at the link below to find out!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Live Scoring<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Scoreboard?TournamentID=11340&amp;TournamentDivisionID=61507&amp;IsCombinedDivision=False\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/button_blog_scoreboard.jpg\" alt=\"View Event Photos\" width=\"205\" height=\"253\" data-large_image_width=\"205\" data-large_image_height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>About the PKBGT<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 2007 by the Triad Youth Golf Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, as a local girls\u2019 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\u2019s pace. The 2019 season will feature over 90 tournaments in 9 states on the East Coast and with over 900 members, the PKBGT is the largest girl\u2019s only tour in the country.\u00a0 Learn more about the PKBGT at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, July 19, the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour played the 2019 PKBGT Precision Girls\u2019 Championship at Bryan Park Golf Course (Champions) in Greensboro, NC.\u00a0 Rays of sun peered through the tree-lined driveway leading into Bryan Park Golf Course. 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