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The 102nd Western Junior at Rich Harvest Farms
Three golfers, Chris Fosdick of Middlefield CT., Pierce Hunt of Hartland WI., and Sudarshan Yellamaraju from Ontario Canada, are the co-leaders after Round 1 of the 2019 Western Junior Golf Championship.
Hunt has committed to play college golf at the University of Illinois, for Coach Mike Small and the Fighting Illini.
The three golfers all shot 3-under par 69. They were the only players to break 70. Only 12 players broke par, and the stroke average for the day was 76.99.
Hunt birdied the par 5, 18th hole for seventh birdie of the day. He made four bogeys. Hunt was happy he put himself into position for the rest of the championship. In 2018 he missed the 36 hole cut at Evanston.
Five players were tied for fourth place with 2 under par 70’s. Because of a 90 minute fog delay to start the day, not all the players completed Round 1. Played was halted at 8:32 PM, with several threesomes on the golf course.
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First-Round leader Brooke Biermann followed up her first round 68 with an even par 72, to earn medalist honors at the 93rd Women’s Western Junior Championship.
Biermann of Wildwood Mo.,leads Sarah Arnold of St. Charles IL. by one shot. Biermann is a junior at Lafayette High School, and Arnold will join the Western Kentucky University Golf team this fall.
Both players are looking forward to the match play part of the championship. There was a seven-player playoff to determine the final players into the top 16, and the match play. Audrey Tir of Winnetka was one of thelast players into the field.
Sweet 16 and quarter final matches are today, with the semi-finals and championship matches set for Thursday. Past champions include Nancy Lopez, Candie Kung, Christie Kerr, and Grace Park.