Miles Russell and Tyler Mawhinney secure places in the Junior Presidents Cup
Two-Minute Drill: High school football games as well as Dolphins, Jaguars and Bucs
It’s one week of high school football preseason games, and the following week the regular season begins. The Bucs also face the Jaguars.
Miles Russell from Jacksonville Beach and Tyler Mawhinney from Fleming Island have reached the US Junior Presidents Cup and will play in Montreal, Canada four days before the Jacksonville Resident Jim Furyk leads the USA against Mike Weir International team, 26.-29. September.
Russell and Mawhinney made it to the team with the American Junior Golf Association Rolex points list. Also on the team are MichaelJackson from St. Simons Island, Georgia.
Charley Hoffman is the captain of the US Junior Presidents Cup. The international captain is Graham DeLaet.
The teams will face each other in match play for two days starting September 22nd at Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac Blue Course in Montreal. The Presidents Cup will take place at the Royal Montreal Golf Club.
Also on the US team are Blades Brown, Pennson Badgett, Asher Vargas, Luke Colton, Will Hartman, Ronin Banerjee and captain election I’m Logan Reilly.
Russell already has international match play experience. He was a member of the US team at the 2023 Junior Ryder Cup. Mawhinney will also carry with him the spirit of his victory last week at the Canadian Amateur in Saskatoon.
All of these players are expected to compete in the Junior Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass from August 30 to September 1. Russell is the defending champion and Mawhinney finished sixth last year.
The 12th and final spot on the U.S. team will be awarded to the leading player in the September 5 Rolex AJGA Rankings who has not otherwise qualified.
Hammock Beach quotes
Hammock Beach Golf Resort and Spa in Palm Coast has been recognized as a Distinguished Golf Destination Elite property by BoardRoom Magazine in association with Forbes Travel Guide.
The resort includes the Jack Nicklaus Design Ocean Course with six holes and views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Tom Watson’s Conservatory Course with waterfalls, streams and field walls.
“We are honored to receive this impressive award and to offer our guests an unparalleled golf experience at Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa,” said Golf Director Brad Hauer it said in a statement.
Who keeps golf score records? And how good are they?
Do you keep your own golf score and does it change depending on how well or poorly you play?
The National Golf Foundation has some insights into these issues.
According to the NGF, 77 percent of golfers regularly keep track of their scores. Men achieve an average score of 97 and women 99.
Now do the math: Half of those surveyed admit that they take certain liberties with the strict rules of golf, such as mulligans, gimmee putts, an extra ball from the first tee or not enforcing out-of-bounds.
The NGF also reported that since the United States Golf Association and Royal and Ancient introduced the World Handicap System in 2020, the number of people in the United States who have a handicap has increased by 23 percent to approximately 3.2 million.
