Thank you to everyone for your interest in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt Championship. Due to the overwhelming response we received, it was necessary to conduct a random drawing to determine the field for local qualifying in each region. Confirmation emails were sent last week to those selected in the random drawing from drivechipandputt@reply.usga.chtah.com. If you are unsure about whether or not your child has received a place in local qualifying, we ask that you click here {http://register.drivechipandputt.com/public_entry_lookup.aspx} and submit the email address that was used to complete the registration. Please note – many times these emails are delivered to the Junk Mail (spam) folder.
We will notify all participants of their status when the confirmation process is complete. It is still possible those who were not selected as part of the initial random drawing could be added to the field should spots open up due to declines. You will receive an email regarding your child’s status one way or the other as confirmations progress.
Thanks very much to everyone for your interest and understanding. We greatly appreciate everyone’s support of the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship!
Informati
on and general times for the Drive, Chip and Putt local qualifying can be found below:
| Empire Lakes Golf Course | June 5th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Desert Willow Golf Resort – Palm Desert Golf Academy | June 11th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club | June 13th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Black Golf Golf Club | June 17th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Alhambra Golf Course | June 18th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Classic Club | June 24th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Morongo Golf Club | June 27th, 2013 | 4-7pm |
| Wood Ranch Golf Club | July 8th, 2013 | 3-6pm |
| Carlsbad Golf Center | July 17th, 2013 | 2-5pm |
| Stadium Golf Center | July 29th, 2013 | 3-6pm |
Starting times will be distributed once all players have been confirmed by the SCPGA once the USGA has finalized entries.
This past Saturday May 4, 2013, the SCPGA JDL series stopped by Brea Creek Golf Course. We couldn’t have asked for a better day to run this event. The weather was picture perfect and had a nice cool breeze that swept through the valley of the course. The winds made the course play slightly more difficult but it didn’t seem to get in the way of several golfers that still played very solid. We ended up having a full field of 83 golfers and witnessed very impressive scores in all the age divisions.
We want to give a special thanks to Brea Creek Golf Course for letting us host this event at their facility. We would also like to thank the players and parents for their support of the SCPGA Junior Tour and we hope that everyone enjoyed watching these great junior golfers. Our next stop is this coming weekend at Marriott Manhattan Beach Golf Course on May 11, 2013. We hope to see you all there!
The Toyota Tour Cup traveled back to the desert this past weekend, May 4th & 5th, to host a 36 hole tournament at Desert Falls Country Club. The field of 67 players were faced with two different weather conditions, as Saturday was pushing the 100’s and Sunday was mild temperatures and breezy. The course was setup to test each player not only off the tee, but around the greens. The two day tournament came down to the wire with a dramatic finish as a playoff was needed to declare the boys champion.
Toyota, Arrowhead Water, Under Armor and Clubglove. The Rules Officials that attended this event were a great assistance and as always are greatful for their involvement; Ron O’Connor, PGA, Keith Reinking, Gary Albin and Terry Startzel.
The event was a success and we greatly appreciate being able to host an event at Classic Club and would like to thank the club and Jeff Grant, PGA for all of their assistance. The sponsors are always a large part of making the tournament possible and would like to thank Toyota, Arrowhead water and Antigua clothing. Finally, the rules official that are present every weekend are always a great assistance and help for a great event. We would like to thank Ron O’Connor, PGA, Keith Reinking, Gary Albin, Terry Startzel for their time.
The SCPGA JDL program had a very busy weekend on April 27-28, 2013. We were very pleased to see so many junior golfers in the field, attempting to take home that first place trophy at Heartwell and the Parent/Junior Scramble @ Casta Del Sol. Heartwell had over 100 players in the field, our largest JDL event of the year to date. The following day in Mission Viejo we hosted the Parent/Junior Scramble tournament and saw some very low scores on the front nine at Casta Del Sol. These two events were very successful and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves.
Heartwell Golf Course in Long Beach, California, had a great turnout of players and quality scores to go along with it. The highlight of the event belonged to none other than a girl from the 11 & under age division. Joshlyn Ayala from Walnut Park, tied the low round of the day and won her age division by four shots with an impressive round of three over par (30). Tying Joshlyn for the low round of the tournament was Adam Alluis from the boys 12 & over age division. Other notable scores included: Yonghee Shin (32), Winston Shen (33), and Ying Chen (34). Winston Shen from the boys 11 & under division won in a card off against Gabriel Navarro and Marvin Lin. Ying Chen won her division, girls 12 & over, by a single shot over Sophia Rim and Kendall Bainter.
The Parent/Junior Scramble tournament at Casta Del Sol on Sunday was another fun and very competitive event for our JDL program. We had one outright winner in Hogan and Andy Park at four under par (27). Coming in second place via winner of a card off was none other than YiYi and Chao Ouyang with an impressive three under par (28). There were sixteen teams lining the field with their chance to take down the first or second place prizes but these two teams of the Parks and Ouyangs proved to be too good to catch. We all had a great time and were happy to see parents get the chance to tee it up alongside their kids in an SCPGA sanctioned event. 
