Complete recap from the AJGA Dalhousie Junior Championship

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Semoball.com covered the American Junior Golf Association's Dalhousie Junior Classic from June 17 through 21 at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau.

We've finalized this page with links to all the video and other information about the tournament:

It's a final

Katie Sylvan of San Diego chipped in on the 18th hole to edge Emma Talley for the girls title at the first Dalhousie Junior Championship.

AARON EISENHAUER ~aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Ty Spinella of Aledo, Texas knocks the ball to the green from the edge of the sand trap on the 10th hole at Dalhousie Golf Club.
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Ty Spinella of Aledo, Texas, shot a course competitive-record round of 67 on his way a six-stroke win for the boys crown.

Quick tournament recap

Southeast Missourian story on the boys outcome

Southeast Missourian story on the girls outcome

Final statistics for each hole

Southeast Missourian story on golfer's impressions of the course

VIDEO: The awards ceremony

PHOTO GALLERY: Behind-the-scenes photos from the social activities and volunteer training by the AJGA staff

COLUMN: Sylvan delivers the drama that Dalhousie needed

COLUMN: Marty Mishow's take on the AJGA tournament

Final notebook

Southeast Missourian story on the tournament's economic impact

VIDEO: A few final sights and sounds from the week

PHOTO GALLERY from the final round of the tournament

VIDEO: Boys champion Ty Spinella talks after the tourney

VIDEO: Boys champion Ty Spinella plays the 17th and 18th holes

VIDEO: Drew Miller plays the final holes

VIDEO: Tyler Brown plays the final holes

Pairing of Tyler Mitchell and William Hunt, who tied for second place

VIDEO: The pairing of Ryan Sirman, Jack Belote and Bradley Moody

VIDEO: The pairing of Eric Lodge, Michael McGee and Paul McConnell on the tee

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com San Diego 16-year-old Katie Sylvan won the AJGA Dalhousie Junior Championship girls division.
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VIDEO: Girls champion Katie Sylvan talks after the tournament

VIDEO: Stephanie Wagstaff on the 18th green

VIDEO: Emma Talley on the 18th green, where her first putt for bogey was to tie for first place

VIDEO: Courtney Harter plays the 18th hole

VIDEO: Devon Brown on the 18th green

VIDEO: Olivia Garard on the 18th green

Tourney recap from the AJGA Web site

Complete scores from the AJGA Web site

Round 2

Trent Hilis of Poplar Bluff earned a spot in the final round with his round of 77 Wednesday following an opening 82 at the Dalhousie Junior Championship.

Read about the locals in Toby Carrig's Weblog

Southeast Missourian feature on girls second-round leader Emma Talley

Southeast Missourian story on boys division

Links to the AJGA's tournament information:

AJGA's tournament recap of round 2

Tournament scores: Click on the player to see their hole-by-hole scores

Final round pairings

{PHOTO GALLERY: http://semissourian.mycapture.com/mycapt... Afternoon photos from Round 2}

{PHOTO GALLEY: http://semissourian.mycapture.com/mycapt... Photos from Round 2}

Round 1 recap

Three boys are tied atop the leaderboard at 70 after being the only golfers to go under par in Tuesday's opening round.

They are Tyler Brown of Missouri, Drew Miller of Tennessee and Adam Dolezal of Illinois.

Courtney Harter, a University of Alabama recruit from Clearwater, Fla., shot a 73 to seize the lead in the girls division.

Check out the Southeast Missourian story

It wasn't a great day for the five Southeast Missouri golfers, but the four local boys shot in the 80s and are within range of making the cut, projected at 81 at the first day. Trent Hillis of Poplar Bluff led the locals with an 82.

Read the Southeast Missourian story.

* Other first-day information:

NOTEBOOK: Ginger Howard featured on a Web site for her and her sister's golf exploits

COLUMN: AJGA measures success with numbers other than crowd totals

VIDEO: Interview with first-round co-leader Kyle Brown

VIDEO: Clips and interview with Cape's Emily Matthews

VIDEO: Clips and interview with Cape's Jack Connell Jr.

VIDEO: Clips of Jackson's T.J. Smith

VIDEO: Clips and interview with Poplar Bluff's Danner McCauley

VIDEO: Clips of Poplar Bluff's Trent Hills

ALSO, more video highlights have been added from the junior-am, including Cape Girardeau Mayor Jay Knudtson, state Sen. Jason Crowell and former Cardinals player Kerry Robinson playing with Southeast coach Mark Hogan, who answered a few questions during the round.

STATS: How each hole played for boys

STATS: How each hole played for girls

PHOTO GALLERY: Pictures from Round 1

AJGA links

Recap of Round 1

Round 1 scores, click on the players' name to see the hole-by-hole card

First shots

The Dalhousie Junior Championship's junior-am gave a handful of AJGA players a chance to tour the course and leave an impression on local teams who entered the tournament, which had a pricetag of $1,250 per foursome.

The winning team was Lee Smith, Jody Underwood, Seth Joy and Aaron Dombrowski, who is the son of Dalhousie managing member Cord Dombrowski.

The junior in their group was Ryan Sirman, a Texas golfer who is headed to the University of Oklahoma next year. He is interviewed at the end of the video clips.

The winning score in the half-handicap was 52, while the team of Gary Turner, Scott Raines, Phil Cantoni and Nick Hogan with junior Chase Anderson was second at 53.

Check out the complete list of scores

Katie Sylvan of San Diego is ranked 101st in the AJGA Polo rankings.
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Read the Southeast Missourian story.

VIDEO: The awards ceremony after the junior-am

Also, check out the videos from Monday, including an interview with one of the leading girls players in the field, Katie Sylvan of San Diego.

Other VIDEOS:

The Semoball.com team

The Montgomery Bank team

Other junior-am videos: Southeast Missouri State baseball foursome, the Knudtson-Buehrle entry, and the all-women team of Ann Dombrowski, Harriette Myers, Alice Temm, Betty Dewitt and Sylvan.

PHOTO GALLERY: 68 photos from Monday's event

Tee times

The tee times are posted on the AJGA Web site for the first round.

For the locals:

* Danner McCauley (Poplar Bluff), 8:12 a.m., Hole No. 10

* Trent Hillis (Poplar Bluff), 8:21 a.m., No. 10

* T.J. Smith (Jackson), 1:12 p.m., No. 10

* Emily Matthews (Cape Girardeau), 1:39 p.m., No. 1

* Jack Connell Jr. (Cape Girardeau), 1:39 p.m., No. 10

Check out the complete list of first-day pairings.

Qualifying Sunday

The Srixon Qualifier on Sunday yielded two local golfers to the tournament field for the classic: Emily Matthews and Jack Connell Jr.

Alex Reid reacts to his birdie putt on No. 2 Sunday in the Srixon Qualifier.
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Alex Reid of Jackson posted the best score among local golfers with a 75 and earned a tournament exemption for a AJGA event for a future event after passing on this week's tournament.

Read the Southeast Missourian story here

Read Toby Carrig's Weblog entry on the locals in Sunday's qualifier here

View the hole-by-hole scoring for local golfers Reid, Connell, Matthews, Brett Slaten and Zack Stricker

Read the AJGA's recap of the qualifier on their Web site

See all the scores from the qualifier on the AJGA Web site

VIDEO: Emily Matthews

Photo gallery

Pre-tournament coverage

Here is the link to Sunday's tournament preview in the Southeast Missourian.

Also, Toby Carrig wrote a Weblog entry Saturday about local ties and the top-ranked players.

Last week, to preview the tournament, local junior golfers Jack Connell and Emily Matthews went over seven holes that will be key to the tournament. Check out the video from two of the top area juniors who are very familiar with the Dalhousie layout.

Local junior golfers Emily Matthews and Jack Connell picked out seven key holes for thiis week's AJGA tournament at Dalhousie Golf Club.
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Connell is the son of Dalhousie director of golf Jack Connell, while Matthews has played the course in competition both on the boys high school golf team at Cape Notre Dame and as a player on the Gateway PGA Junior tour.

Intro

Hole No. 7, one of the course's longest holes at 556 yards for men, 518 for women and plenty of sand around the green

Hole No. 11, a par-3 over a water hazard

Hole No. 12, a par-4 with a second shot over a bunker to an elevated green

Hole No. 13, a par-3 with a very tall sand trap near the green

Hole No. 14, a par-4 with water along the right side

Hole No. 17, the longest par-4 for women at about 390 yards

Hole No. 18, the finishing hole featuring a green more than 80 yards in length.

Check back for more coverage in the coming days.

Here's the yardage chart, provided by tournament director Andrew Greenfield of the AJGA.

HOLE	PAR	BOYS	GIRLS
Hole 1	4	378	362
Hole 2	5	585	510
Hole 3	4	430	364
Hole 4	4	411	320
Hole 5	3	160	134
Hole 6	4	367	331
Hole 7	5	555	472
Hole 8	3	204	165
Hole 9	4	425	340
OUT	36	3,515	2,998
Hole 10	4	438	360
Hole 11	3	168	152
Hole 12	4	400	373
Hole 13	3	182	142
Hole 14	4	325	295
Hole 15	5	526	465
Hole 16	4	430	373
Hole 17	4	450	385
Hole 18	5	536	520
IN	36	3,455	3,065
TOTALS	72	6,970	6,063