Local golfers from Soldotna and Kenai, most affiliated with the Birch Ridge Golf Course, dominated age group competition at the 2018 Alaska Junior Golf Association State Championships held in Anchorage.
The AJGA state championships were contested over two days with day one at the Anchorage Golf Course and day two at Moose Run Golf Course.
Results include local golfers in age group categories.
Boys Age 7-9 9 holes forward tees
1st Place State Champion Adam Coghill: Day 1 42 Day 2 40 Total 82
4th Place Clayton Cooper: Day 1 60 Day 2 55 Total 115
Girls Age 11-13 9 holes red tees
1st Place State Champion Keely Sundberg: Day 1 58 Day 2 63 Total 121
2nd Place Tait Cooper Day 1 61 Day 2 63 Total 124
3rd Place Evelyn Cooper Day 1 67 Day two 67 Total 129
Boys Age 13-15 white tees 18 holes
1st Place State Champion Shane Sundberg: Day one 45, 47 for a 92 Day two 43, 42 for an 85 Total 177
2nd Place Jakob Brown: Day one 40, 45 for an 85 Day two 58, 46 for a 104 Total 189
Girls Age 16-18 red tees 18 holes
2nd Place Danica Schmidt: Day one 47,48 for a 95 Day two 49, 49 for a 98 Total 193
Tait Cooper (from Kenai and playing for Birch Ridge) recorded a hole-in-one on hole number 6, a 108 yard par three; only the second hole-in-one in an AJGA event. Shane Sundberg was the first with a hole-in-one in 2017; Tait is the youngest to hit one in AJGA event at 11-years-old.
Congratulations to all of the local golfers and golf instructor Bill Enberg from Birch Ridge Golf Course.
Photo of Tait Cooper with hole-in-one ball provided by Joe Vigil
