CONGRATS ALL-AROUND!
Congrats to Alex Lamarca
Winner of the Optimist Junior
Qualifier at Wexford Plantation!
IJGA
student-athlete
Alex
Lamarca battled windy and
rainy conditions recently to
win the Optimist Junior Golf
tournament, 2019 Junior Players
Golf Academy Open at Wexford
Plantation Golf Course of Hilton
Head Island, January 19 & 20,
shooting a 76-75 for a combined
score of 151, winning by two
strokes. “I knew going into the
tournament the conditions were
going to be tough. The only thing I told myself was, play
smart, don’t make bad decisions,” said Larmarca.
As a qualifying event, Lamarca will advance to the Optimist
International Junior Golf Championship held at the Trump
National Doral Resort & Spa Tournament held in Miami,
Florida in late July.
Congrats to Michael Katsman
Recipient of the 2018 GOLFTEC
National Order of Merit presented by
TaylorMade (Junior Boys Division)
The Canadian Junior Golf Association
(CJGA) recently announced the
winners of the 2018 GOLFTEC
National Order of Merit, presented
by TaylorMade. The GOLFTEC National Order of Merit,
presented by TaylorMade is a ranking system that awards
points based on a player’s position at each CJGA event.
Events are tiered based on the size and strength of the field.
IJGA student-athlete Micheal Katsman (Richmond Hill, Ont.)
played in six events collecting 2,563 points during the 2018
season. Posting top five finishing in both the CJGA PING
Canadian Junior Match Play Championship and CJGA
Mizuno National Junior Golf Championship, Katsman never
finished outside the top five at an event. He captured the
CJGA Humber College Invitational at Diamondback and
finished runner-up at the DeLaet Cup Qualifier presented
by Georgian College at National Pines.
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Congrats to Shuya Hagiwara
Hole-in-one
Congrats to Shuya Hagiwara on
his hole-in-one at Chechessee
Golf Club, 13th hole. Shiyu was
playing with CEO of IJGA Andrew
Summers and used his 6 iron to
make his perfect shot.
Alumni
Congrats to Poom Pattrorpong
IJGA alumni Poom Pattaropong
(Class of 2013) of Thailand and
former member of the James
Madison men’s golf team,
finished fifth in the final stage
of 2019 Asian Tour Qualifying
School recently earning his Asian
Tour card with a five-round score
of 19-under 336.
Welcome to Darcie Patrick!
Darcie Patrick has taken on
a new role as Director of
Education + Development
for
International
Junior
Golf Academy and Bishops
Gate Golf Academy. As a
Professional
Member
of
Independent
Education
Consultant Association (IECA)
and National Association for
College Admission Counseling
(NACAC), her educational
experience
and
passion
for helping students find the RIGHT fit school to meet
their social, emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual
needs will lead our student-athletes to the RIGHT college/
university to prepare them for their encore career after golf.
Patrick has worked in private school admissions/
administration on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina since
2005. In 2012, she retired as Head of School from Sea Pines
Montessori Academy. Since then, she has been working as
a College Admission Strategist with CollegeHHI.