Grady Cox of Rio Communities and Vari Mariscal of Deming certified for the upcoming boys Junior PGA Championship in Sizzling Springs, Arkansas, with their performances on the qualifier held Monday-Tuesday at UNM Championship Course.
Rylee Salome of Los Lunas and Olivia Zamarripa had been the 2 women’ qualifiers from the occasion. (Outcomes could be discovered right here.)
Cox, who shot 73 on Monday and entered Tuesday’s second spherical one stroke behind Skyler Woods, went 4-under throughout a five-hole stretch on the entrance line on his solution to a 68.
The rising senior at Belen Excessive qualifies for the Junior PGAs for the second consecutive yr.
Mariscal, the state 4A champion from Deming this previous spring — edging out Cox by a stroke — shot 34 on the entrance aspect Tuesday en path to a 73. He’ll play for New Mexico State within the fall.
The ladies competitors supplied little drama for first place, given Salome’s six-stroke margin of victory.
The rising junior at Belen Excessive is the reigning Solar Nation Novice Golf Affiliation (SCAGA) participant of the yr and provides Solar Nation Junior PGA champ to an already spectacular résumé.
The stress was for second place and the opposite qualifying spot. It finally went to Zamarripa, a rising senior on the Golf Efficiency Middle Academy in Connecticut, whose sister Sophia performs for the College of New Mexico ladies’s staff.
The subsequent Junior Occasion would be the U.S. Junior Novice Qualifier at UNM Championship Course this Thursday.
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