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— Live Scoring —<\/a><\/p>\n

The culmination of a year’s worth of tournaments has finally brought us to the PKB’s most prestigious event of the year–the 2015 Invitational.\"Grandover<\/a> The field for this year’s event features players from 14 different states, making it one of the most diverse fields the PKBGT has ever seen for a single tournament.\u00a0 Players have earned their spot into the Invitational by finishing at the top of the PKBGT Orders of Merit, winning their state championship, playing in Invitational qualifiers, or earning an at-large bid.\u00a0 The Grandover Resort East course will be played at 6,200 yards and is expected to be an exciting test for even the best PKBGT\u00a0juniors.<\/p>\n

Two decorated PKBGT\u00a0golfers in the 67-player field are the Spicer Sisters, Sarah and Jessica (Bahama, NC 2016).\u00a0 Both girls have verbally committed to play golf for the Virginia Tech Hokies in the fall of 2016.\u00a0 Sarah and Jessica Spicer are each ranked seventh and fifth respectively on the PKBGT Performance Index and both players are ranked inside the top 200 on Junior Golf Scoreboard.\u00a0 In PKBGT\u00a0events, Jessica won the 2014 PKB Junior at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club and placed 3rd in last year’s Invitational.\u00a0 Sarah finished third at the 2014 PKB Junior and sixth at the 2014 Invitational.<\/p>\n

Mercer committee Lauren Lightfritz (Suwanee, GA 2016) is ranked fourth on the PKBGT Performance Index.\u00a0 She won all three PKBGT\u00a0events she played in this past spring season.\u00a0 Lightfritz won the Rocket Tour Players Championship at the University of Georgia, also the Palmetto Classic at USC, and\u00a0 the Paladin Classic at Furman.\u00a0 She also won the Georgia State Golf Association Girls’ Junior Championship this June.<\/p>\n

Another golfer playing well all year is Amanda Sambach (Davidson, NC 2021).\u00a0 Sambach lit up the Futures Series circuit this year, never finishing outside of the top-4 in any event she competed in throughout the 2015 season.\u00a0 Her biggest wins this year came at the Srixon Tour Championship this August at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club and at the PKBGT NEXT event at Duke University Golf Club in September.\u00a0 It will be exciting to see how Sambach will tackle the 6200 yard course.<\/p>\n

The PKBGT\u00a0Invitational will kick off this Friday with the Inspire. Dream. Achieve. Banquet at Bryan Park Golf & Conference Center featuring Laura Diaz as our guest speaker.\u00a0 We will also honor our PKBGT Order of Merit winners of 2015.\u00a0 Tournament action will begin on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 10am.\u00a0 You can follow the action live on the 2015 Invitational Tournament page.\u00a0 We look forward to a great event!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a>\u00a0is an initiative of the\u00a0Triad 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 low cost, nationally ranked girls\u2019 golf tournaments designed to prepare junior girls\u2019 golfers for high school and collegiate golf. Learn more about the tour at\u00a0pkbgt.org<\/a>\u00a0or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at\u00a0mparker@pkbgt.org<\/a>\u00a0or 336-347-8537.<\/p>\n

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