What: Children’s Care Fund Junior Golf Tournament – a stop on the Erie District Golf Association’s Flagship City Junior Tour

Where: Lake Shore Country Club
Tuesday June 13, 2017
10:30 Shotgun Start

Why: • Earn tour points for the season
• 6 players will advance to the Junior Pro-Am at the LECOM Health Challenge of the Web.com Tour, to be held July 3, 2017 at Peak n Peak
• The top player in each age group plus the largest fundraiser for the Children’s Care Fund are the 6 player to advance to the Junior Pro-Am
• Help other kids, improve your golf game and have fun!

Entry: Entries for the 2017 Flagship Junior Golf Tour can be found at edga.org/flagship_city_junior_tour This will be the opening event of the 2017 season.

Age Groups: Girls 10 – 15, Girls 16 – 18, Boys 10 – 12, Boys 13 – 15, Boys 16 – 18
**Players will be placed in the age group that corresponds to their age on August 8th, the date of the Tour Championship**
The participant who raises the most money for the Children’s Care Fund will be awarded the 6th spot at the Junior Pro-Am without regard to age or gender.

Participants are invited to raise money for the Children’s Care Fund by collecting donations prior to the event or by using CauseVox to support fund raising on line.

The Children’s Care Fund at Hamot Health Foundation supports babies, children and their families in times of serious medical treatments by easing financial burdens of travel and care, by providing equipment that improves results in young patients through distraction therapy, and through providing support to local programs focused on the health of children such as Community Schools and playground development in underserved neighborhoods. FOR INFORMATION ON SETTING UP YOUR CAUSEVOX, PLEASE CONTACT MICHELLE ROBERTSON AT (814)877-4969 or Robertsonmm2@upmc.edu

The 2017 schedule is complete.

June 5th, 9th-11th: Marquette Savings Bank Match Play Championship – Erie Golf Course
Monday June 12th: Streeter Cup Senior Better Ball – Lawrence Park Golf Club
Tuesday June 13th: Junior Tour – Lakeshore Country Club
Tuesday June 20th – Wednesday June 21st: Junior Stroke Play – Country Meadows Golf Course
Tuesday June 27th: Junior Tour – Beechwood
Monday July 10th: Men’s Mid-Amateur – Venango Valley
Tuesday June 11th: Junior Tour – Harbor Ridge
Tuesday June 18th: Junior Tour – Mound Grove
Monday July 24th: Two Man Better Ball – Whispering Woods
Tuesday July 25th: Junior Tour – Green Meadows
Tuesday August 1st: Thursday August 3rd: Junior Match Play – Riverside Golf Course
Monday August 7th: JC Martin Senior Stroke Play – The Kahkwa Club
Tuesday August 8th: Junior Tour Championship – The Kahkwa Club
Friday August 11th – Sunday August 13th: Marquette Savings Bank Amateur Championship – Lakeshore County Club

For more details, see the links to the left.

Chris Kupniewski sweeps the summer “majors” as the Mecryhurst University senior took home top honors at the 2016 Erie Sport Store Amateur Championship. His final round matched his tournament total as Kupniewski posted the only sub-par cumulative score of the tournament, three under par. Playing with a hot putter, Kupniewski birdied both par threes on the back nine enroute to a 3 shot victory over familiar foe Mike Garcia. Garcia tied former Meadville standout and East Tennessee State University freshman to be Zach Ford who shared the lead with Kupniewski as late as the 14th hole. Both Garcia and Ford finished the tournament at even par. Mike Newcomer was one behind and the leader coming into Sunday, Cory Smith, finished the tournament at +2, good for a fourth place finish, tying with Penn State Behrend’s Shawn Sculley.

The final prize pool for the tournament is being determined with merchandise credit available at the Lawrence Park pro shop by Wednesday. All players who played Sunday will receive some amount of merchandise credit.

Final results are available HERE

The cut is 82. All players 83 and higher are eliminated from contention.

Should weather wash out Saturday’s round, the cut line for the top 36 plus ties who will play Sunday is 79.

All effort will be made to play as much golf as possible over the weekend.

Pairings for Saturday are available below. Tee times begin at 11:20am with the field reverse ordered based on Friday’s finish.

PAIRINGS

Saegertown junior outlasted Prep sophomore Patrick Kelly by a score of 3 and 1 to claim the 2016 Erie Sport Store Junior Match Play Championship. Peters started posted three birdies on his round including one on 15 when Kelly seemed to be poised to square the match after falling behind by 3 holes but then claiming 13 and 14 to put pressure on Peters. The two traded pars on 16 and then Peters claimed the title when Kelly’s drive on 17 found the left hazard. Peters went wire to wire if there is such a thing in matchplay as he was the number one seed after Monday’s qualifier.

In girls’ competition, Walnut Creek 8th grader Natalie Brosig needed extra holes not only to gain a birth in match play but also in both of her matches. She defeated Villa sophomore and first seeded Kymmy Henry to in 19 holes to reach the final and then bested Fort Leboeuf’s Syd Worley by the same score to claim the title.

The boys B flight and Boys 10 to 12 flight were far less dramatic as Mercyhurst Prep senior Carl Palotas race away with the B flight defeating Iroquois sophomore Justin Bonniger, 8 and 7. Kyle Westfall claimed the youngest boy’s group by way of an 8 and 6 decision over Ryan Fiscus.