{"id":6734,"date":"2015-08-06T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:07:12","slug":"15event37_preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/15event37_preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: SRIXON Tour Championship @ Pine Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/images\/courses\/pineneedles.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"30\" vspace=\"20\" \/>On Monday-Wednesday, August 10-12, the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour wraps up its tour season with the SRIXON\u00ae TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP at the famous Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club.\u00a0 This is the first year that the Tour Championship will be sponsored by Srixon\/Cleveland\/XXIO Golf and we are excited to have them as a title sponsor this year. Thanks to our new sponsor, the Tour Championship will feature a Srixon\/Cleveland\/XXIO Demo-Day on Sunday afternoon before the practice round and a short-game challenge presented by Cleveland Golf on Monday after round one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, the host of the PKB Tour Championship for the last 3 years, was also host to the US Women\u2019s Open in 1996, 2001, and 2007.\u00a0 The strong history of women\u2019s golf at Pine Needles combined with a championship-level course make it the ideal location for the further development of the game and the unofficial home of the PKB Girls\u2019 Golf Tour.\u00a0 65 players of the PKB Girls\u2019 Golf Tour, the largest \u201cgirls-only\u201d junior golf tour in the country, will tackle the classic Donald Ross course at 5,745 yards in the Prep Series and 5,004 yards in the Futures Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Prep Series field this year, the 2015 Srixon Tour Championship will see the return of last year\u2019s champion Siranon Shoomee (Sanford, NC 2016).\u00a0 East Carolina University committee Shoomee, currently ranked 10<sup>th<\/sup>, is one of the nine players within the top-50 on the PKB Performance Index. \u00a0Her best finish this year was a tie for second at the Wolfpack Classic at NC State Lonnie Poole GC on June 6-7 with rounds of 75-73.\u00a0 Joining Shoomee at the top of the Performance Index in the 16th spot is Sarina Sonoda (Florence, SC 2016) who has two wins this season at the Precision Junior Girls Championship at Deep Springs CC on June 24-25 (70-77) and at the One-Day Open Series at Rocky River GC on August 2nd (75).\u00a0 Rounding out the top-three of the lowest-ranked players in the Tour Championship at number 20 on the Performance Index is Haeley Wotnosky (Wake Forest, NC 2018). Playing solidly all year, her best place was a runner-up finish at the PKB Foundation Classic at Mid Pines Inn &amp; GC on January 31st with rounds of 74-81. Also in the top-50 on the Performance Index are Grace Yatawara (Salisbury, NC 2016), ranked 21st, Caroline Cahill (Wilmington, NC 2017), ranked 30th, Elizabeth Nguyen (Pinehurst, NC 2017), ranked 35th, Gabriella Kim (Wayne, PA 2017), ranked 37th, Hailey Freedman (Chapel Hill, NC 2018), ranked 45th, and Emily Hawkins (Lexington, NC 2018), ranked 47th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Futures Series this year, there are ten players ranked within the top-25 on the PKB Futures Series Order of Merit.\u00a0 The number one ranked player, Carly Rudolf (Virginia Beach, VA 2019) won an impressive three tournaments this year, starting with the PKB Foundation Classic at Mid Pines Inn &amp; GC on January 31st with rounds of 82-79.\u00a0 On April 12, she won the PKBGT Masters at Cutter Creek GC with a 79-71.\u00a0 At her next event, she won a third time at the Hampton Roads Classic at Nansemond River GC on April 18-19 with two solid rounds of 73-74.\u00a0 The number two ranked player on the PKB Futures Series Order of Merit, Amanda Sambach (Davidson, NC 2021) is the youngest player ranked in the top-25. She has never finished outside of the top-five in all nine of the events she has competed in this year.\u00a0 The most notable of her four wins came early in the season at the Boar\u2019s Head Inn Classic at the University of Virginia where she shot 82-76 and at the PKBGT Futures Open at Sapona Ridge CC where she shot two solid rounds of 72-74. The third highest ranked player on the Order of Merit in fourth place is Sophie Holland (Cornelius, NC 2020).\u00a0 Sophie played solidly all season but her big win finally came at the Precision Junior Girls Championship at Deep Springs CC where she shot 75-73 and won the title in a playoff.\u00a0 Also in the top 25 are Kendall Turner (Chesapeake, VA 2019), ranked 5th, Muskan Uppal (Cornelius, NC 2019), ranked 6th, \u00a0Mogie Adamchik (Raleigh, NC 2017), ranked 9th, Bryson Bowman (Summerfield, NC 2017), Alexis Sudjianto (Charlotte, NC 2019), ranked 13, Cassie Paulin (Winston-Salem, NC 2017), ranked 17th, and Riley Hamilton (Reidsville, NC 2020), ranked 25th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The SRIXON TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP marks the end of the regular 2015 season. A lot is at stake at this event, including many invitations to the PKBGT INVITATIONAL in November. At the conclusion of the event, invitations to the PKBGT INVITATIONAL will be extended to the top-30 players from the PKBGT 2015 Bell Division Order of Merit rankings, the top-15 players from the 2015 PKBGT Prep Division Order of Merit rankings, the top-five players from the 2015 PKBGT Futures Division Order of Merit Rankings, the top-three players on the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Series Order of Merit, the number one player on the 2015 Futures One-Day Division Order of Merit, and the top-30 finishers on the PKB Performance Index. The PKBGT will also recognize any state junior amateur champion at the Invitational. This tournament will bring together players from Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. It will be a great tournament!<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">pkbgt.org<\/a> or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at <a href=\"mailto:mparker@pkbgt.org\">mparker@pkbgt.org<\/a> or 336-347-8537.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pkb.shotstat.com\/TournamentScoring\/Scoreboard.aspx?TID=2593\"><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday-Wednesday, August 10-12, the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour wraps up its tour season with the SRIXON\u00ae TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP at the famous Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club.\u00a0 This is the first year that the Tour Championship will be sponsored by Srixon\/Cleveland\/XXIO Golf and we are excited to have them as a title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[572,683],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event_news","tag-peggy-kirk-bell-girls-golf-tour","tag-srixon-tour-championship-pine-needles-lodge-gc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Preview: SRIXON Tour Championship @ Pine Needles - PKB Girls&#039; 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