{"id":12037,"date":"2020-05-24T02:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=12037"},"modified":"2020-05-24T02:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T02:37:35","slug":"20event53_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/20event53_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: PKBGT Open Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Salisbury, NC<\/strong>&#8211;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Saturday, May 23 the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peggy Kirk Bell Girls&#8217; Golf Tour<\/a> ended their 76-day hiatus from tournament play due to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic when the trio of <strong>Victoria Cook<\/strong> (Reidsville, NC 2020), <strong>Anna Howerton<\/strong> (Winston-Salem, NC 2023), and <strong>Megan Morris<\/strong> (Cary, NC 2021) struck their opening tee balls at high-noon on the Donald Ross Classic Design at Country Club of Salisbury. Due to flooding, holes 11-14 were unplayable today. The course was rerouted for the competitors to replay holes 1-4 with hole #3 being played as a par-4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bell National<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Leading the Bell National field is <strong>Nicole Adam\u00a0<\/strong>(Pinehurst, NC 2020), after an opening round of 68 (-3). The 2019 Carolina&#8217;s Golf Association Junior Player of the Year carded six birdies in her opening round on the par 71 layout. Nicole&#8217;s last PKBGT tournament outing ended with a victory back in 2019 at the Peggy Kirk Bell Junior at Pine Needles Golf and Lodge on December 28-29. The UNC-Chapel Hill commit heads into the second round with a three-shot lead.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nicole Adam (Pinehurst, NC 2020) \/ 68 (-3)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>T2. Emma Chen (Derwood, MD 2022) \/ 71 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T2. Sara Im (Duluth, GA 2023) \/ 71 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T2. Adrian Anderson (Murrels Inlet, SC 2023) \/ 71 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T2. Mikayla Dubnik (Murrayville, GA 2021) \/ 71 (E)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Scoreboard?TournamentID=14185\">Click here to see full Bell National Leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Tournament\/Pairings\/14185\">Click here to view second-round tee times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the second round at the 2020 PKBGT Open Championship at the Country Club of Salisbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Live-Scoring\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Scoreboard?TournamentID=14185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/button_blog_scoreboard.jpg\" alt=\"View Event Scoreboard\" 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 Girls Golf of America, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, as a local girls\u2019 golf tour in the Triad region of North Carolina.\u00a0 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 2020 season will feature over 1110 tournaments in 9 states on the East Coast, and with over 1,000 members, the PKBGT is the largest girl\u2019s only tour in the country.\u00a0 Learn more about the PKBGT at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For complete coverage of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour, follow the PKBGT on social media @PKBGirlsTour (Twitter), facebook.com\/girlsgolftour (Facebook), @pkbgirlstour (Instagram) or visit our website at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.pkbgt.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salisbury, NC&#8211;On Saturday, May 23 the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls&#8217; Golf Tour ended their 76-day hiatus from tournament play due to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic when the trio of Victoria Cook (Reidsville, NC 2020), Anna Howerton (Winston-Salem, NC 2023), and Megan Morris (Cary, NC 2021) struck their opening tee balls at high-noon on the Donald Ross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event_news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Update: PKBGT Open Championship - PKB Girls&#039; 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