Chase Yenser, a rising senior at Daniel Boone High School, placed 19th in the Junior PGA Championships at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Yenser shot a four-round total of 278, seven-under par, for the four-day event (July 29-Aug. 1).
Yenser led after the first round, firing a 64 on July 29. He then shot 70 for the second round to make the cut and finished the tournament with rounds of 72 and 72.
Last fall as a junior at Daniel Boone, he finished in a tie for second place in the PIAA Class 3A golf tourney at Penn State. He shot 138 in the state tournament to finish two strokes behind Fox Chapel’s Chase Kittsley, who will be a junior this fall.
Lunden Esterline of Andover, Kansas, a rising high school junior, won the Junior PGA Championship with a four-round total of 266 to win by six strokes.
Tiger Woods’ son, Charlie, finished tied for ninth place with a 276 total.
Kittsley also played in the tournament, but missed the cut, shooting rounds of 67 and 77.
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