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The Western Golf Association has announced that, the 2020 Western Junior Golf Championship will be held at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest.
This marks the first time the WGA Junior Championship will be held at the club. The championship was first played in 1914 and the club was founded in 1895. It will be the first time in over 100 years that Onwentsia will host a WGA golf championship.
The Onwentisa club, was one of the 11 charter clubs that help found the WGA in 1899, to help spread the game od golf across the Midwest area of the United States. The Western Junior Championship is the nations oldest junior championship in America. It has been contested in 15 states and several of the Chicago area’s top clubs.
The historic Onwentsia clubhouse (L), and the Par 3, 9th hole (R) at the Onwentsia club.
Welcome to the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest. Home of the 2020 WGA Junior Championship.
“Few clubs have the history and the tradition of Onwentsia,” said Vince Pellegrino, the WGA’s Senior Vice President of Tournaments. “The club holds a special place in the history of the WGA, and we’re excited to bring this event and a field of the country’s best junior players to Onwentsia.”
Onwentsia’s history starts in 1893 in the yard of Sen.Charles Farwell, who created a seven hole golf course,complete with sunken tomato cans for holes. In 1895 the club moved to it’s current location on Green Bay Road, where it received it’s current name, which is an Iroquois word that means a meeting place of sporting braves and squaws.
The golf course had it’s first nine holes designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, and three years later architects Herbert Tweedie, James and Robert Foulis to complete the second 9 holes and give the club a full 18 holes.
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“As a founding member of the WGA, we welcome the opportunity to help carry on the tradition of the Western Junior Championship and host the finest junior players in the country,” said Jeff Walters, Onwentsia President.
The WGA that has now awarded over 10,000 college scholarships to caddies since 1930, has seen roughly 30 caddies come from the ranks of the Onwentsia club. The first was Charles Van Etten in 1952, Van Etten attended Northwestern University.
Future sites for the Western Junior Champion include, the Red Run Golf Club in Royal Oak,Michigan in 2016, the Park Ridge Country Club in 2017, the Evanston Golf Club in Skokie in 2018, and Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove in 2019. Park Ridge will be hosting the centennial playing of the championship in 2017.
For more online information of the WGA Junior Championship please visit WGAESF.com.