Six Palm Beach County golfers have made the cut at the 49th Boys & Girls Junior PGA Championships in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Jupiter’s Charlie Woods, a rising junior at the Benjamin School, and Boca Raton’s Catherine Andino, a rising junior at West Boca Raton High, are the low local players in each tournament, respectively.
The Junior PGA Championships are comprised of two 72-hole stroke play tournaments for boys and girls junior amateur golfers. This year’s boys and girls tournaments each featured 156 golfers, respectively.
The tournament cut to the top 60 plus ties after Wednesday’s second round. It will cut down to the top 30 plus ties after the third round on Thursday.
The Junior PGA Championships were first hosted in 1976 and have a long history in Palm Beach County.
From 1980-2000, the event was hosted PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens in all but two years. In 1990, Tiger Woods finished runner-up to Fort Lauderdale’s Chris Couch at PGA National.
Here’s a look at which Palm Beach County golfers made the cut and third round tee times at the Junior PGA Championship:
Hampton Beebe, West Palm Beach
2-day total: 142 (1-under)
Position: T49
Third-round tee time, pairing: 1:48 p.m. (No. 10) — William Lisle, Ryan Hooker
Brooks Colton, Riviera Beach
2-day total: 150 (7-over)
Position: Missed Cut
Gabriel Oliveira Holtz, Boca Raton
2-day total: 145 (2-over)
Position: Missed Cut
Wylie Inman, North Palm Beach
First round: 140 (3-under)
Position: T30
Third-round tee time, pairing: 12:20 p.m. (No. 10) — Jackson Skinner, Yunze Wang
Giuseppe Puebla, Royal Palm Beach
2-day total: 140 (3-under)
Position: T30
Third-round tee time, pairing: 12:25 p.m. (No. 1) —Luke Colton, Anshul Mishra
Tristian Rhodenizer, Palm Beach Gardens
2-day total: 145 (2-over)
Position: Missed Cut
Charlie Woods, Jupiter
First round: 136 (7-under)
Position: T7
Third-round tee time, pairing: 1:53 p.m. (No. 1) —Ronin Banerjee, Sam Carraher
Catherine Andino, Boca Raton
2-day total: 139 (4-under)
Position: T13
Third-round tee time, pairing: 8:33 a.m. (No. 1) — Trinity Beth, Vidhi Lakhawala
Grace Carter, Jupiter
2-day total: 140 (3-under)
Position: T22
Third-round tee time, pairing: 8:22 a.m. (No. 1) — Celina Yeo, Kaili Xiao
Marley Pedrique, West Palm Beach
2-day total: 148 (5-over)
Position: Missed Cut
Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
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