{"id":14352,"date":"2022-11-12T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:23:06","slug":"23event6_update1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/23event6_update1\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 1 Update: The 14th PKBGT Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bermuda Run, NC &#8211; <\/b><i>The\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a><i> traveled to <\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.invitedclubs.com\/clubs\/bermuda-run-country-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bermuda Run Country Club<\/a><i> in Bermuda Run, NC for the opening\u00a0round of the 14th PKBGT Invitational.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With tee times commencing at 9:30 am players arrived early and eager to get their PKBGT Invitational underway. The heavy rain from Thursday and Friday made the course wet but that didn&#8217;t stop the field from attacking the course and making plenty of birdies and eagles!<strong>\u00a0Macy Pate <\/strong>(Winston Salem, NC 2022) is no stranger to Bermuda Run. Macy finished runner-up a year ago at the PKBGT Invitational and has also shot a 57 in a High School event at Bermuda Run!<\/p>\n<p>That experience showed as she opened with a 6-under 66. Macy birdied six of her first eleven holes and is the leader by four strokes entering Round 2. <strong>Sophia Li\u00a0<\/strong>(New York, NY 2025) played her last 10 holes in 2-under par and is in second place alone at -2. In an up and down round, <strong>Alexsandra Lapple\u00a0<\/strong>(Pinehurst, NC 2023) made an impressive six birdies on the day and scored a 1-under 71 in her opening round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aphrodite Deng\u00a0<\/strong>(Short Hills, NJ 2028), <strong>Makayla Grubb\u00a0<\/strong>(Stafford, VA 2025), and\u00a0<strong>Ellen Yu\u00a0<\/strong>(Greensboro, NC 2025) all signed for a round of even par and are tied for fourth but within striking distance with two rounds to play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Macy Pate <\/strong>(Winston Salem, NC 2022)\u00a0\/ 66 (-6)<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>Sophia Li\u00a0<\/strong>(New York, NY 2025)\u00a0\/ 70 (-2)<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Alexsandra Lapple\u00a0<\/strong>(Pinehurst, NC 2023)\u00a0\/ 71 (-1)<\/p>\n<p>T4. <strong>Aphrodite Deng\u00a0<\/strong>(Short Hills, NJ 2028)\u00a0\/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T4. <strong>Makayla Grubb\u00a0<\/strong>(Stafford, VA 2025)\u00a0\/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T4.\u00a0<strong>Ellen Yu\u00a0<\/strong>(Greensboro, NC 2025) \/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a great first round there are several players right in the hunt and looking to build to off of a successful first day! Following the second round the field will be reduced to the top 50% and ties. Tee times will begin tomorrow at 9:30 am at Bermuda Run Country Club &#8211; East Course. We are excited to see what the next two days have in store at Bermuda Run and to crown the 14th PKBGT Invitational Champion!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the second round of the 14th PKBGT Invitational.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Live-Scoring\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Scoreboard?TournamentID=22122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><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 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 2022 season will feature over 138 tournaments in 12+ states 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&#8217; Golf Tour, follow the PKBGT on social media @PKBGirlsTour (Twitter), facebook.com\/girlsgolftour (Facebook), @pkbgirlstour (Instagram), or visit our website at <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\">www.pkbgt.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bermuda Run, NC &#8211; The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour traveled to Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, NC for the opening\u00a0round of the 14th PKBGT Invitational.\u00a0 &nbsp; With tee times commencing at 9:30 am players arrived early and eager to get their PKBGT Invitational underway. The heavy rain from Thursday and Friday made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":14353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[572,69,524],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event_news","tag-peggy-kirk-bell-girls-golf-tour","tag-pine-needles","tag-pkbgt-tour-championship-pine-needles-lodge-golf-club"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Round 1 Update: The 14th PKBGT Invitational - PKB Girls&#039; Tour News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour traveled to Coyote Creek Golf Club in Morgan Hill, CA for a regional qualifier for the NB3 Championship.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/23event6_update1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Round 1 Update: The 14th PKBGT Invitational - PKB Girls&#039; 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