AJGA
Returns to Boyne Highlands
Event replaces Toldo Group Eastern Canadian Junior
For the fourth consecutive year, the AJGA will make a stop at Northern Michigan’s Boyne Highlands Resort.
Boyne
Highlands Resort |
Located in Harbor Springs, Boyne Highlands’ Heather
Course served as the home for the Buick Junior Open presented
by Golfweek in 2001 and 2002. In 2003, the AJGA went back
to Boyne Highlands for the inaugural AJGA Boyne Highlands
Junior.
This year’s AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior will feature
144 boys and girls ages 12-18 in 54 holes of stroke play competition
on Boyne Highlands’ Moor Course. The event will be held
July 26 – 29 with a qualifier being held Monday, July
26.
The AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior is replacing the Toldo Group
Eastern Canadian Junior. Applications that have already been
received for the Toldo Group Eastern Canadian Junior will
automatically be transferred to the AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior.
Juniors may withdraw from the tournament before the deadline
(June 22, 2004) without penalty.
“It is unfortunate to make a change like this during
the season but is was a logistical circumstance that was beyond
our control that led to this decision,” said AJGA Vice
President of Operations Bobby Powell.
“Boyne Highlands is a great venue. The resort and golf
course staff has always been great to us and we really look
forward to going back there.”
Amanda Blumenherst of Scottsdale, Ariz., had a record-setting
week at the 2003 AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior. She set the
women’s course competitive record with her second-round
65 and tied the AJGA Girls Division record for largest winning
margin with her 16-stroke victory.
Frank Alafoginis of Potomac, Md., picked up his first AJGA
win as be finished with a two-stroke win in the rain-shortened
tournament.