Texas Legends Junior Tour – Spring Break Series Set For March 15-21
he Legends Junior Tour will host the Spring Preview at Gentle Creek GC in Prosper, on March 15-16. This event will be the first Major Championship of the 2010 LJT season. This will be the sixth consecutive year the Legends Junior Tour will host a Championship at Gentle Creek, joining Lakewood Country Club in Dallas as the only two clubs that have hosted a Legends Junior Tour event every year since the Tour’s inception in 2005.
With the typical summer date moved to student’s Spring Break week, Gentle Creek will offer a very different challenge to those only familiar with playing it in the onslaught of Texas heat when the course is fast and dry. The D.A Weibring designed layout demands players are both accurate and long with tee shots and irons. That will not be enough, however, as Gentle Creek also features undulating Bermuda grass greens that test a players putt-reading ability and speed control.
“The golf course will certainly present itself a little differently in March [than in July], there won’t be as much roll, but the greens will be more receptive to approach shots,” said Jim Sanders, Director of Golf at Gentle Creek. “Our membership and staff is very excited to have the Legends Junior Tour out to Gentle Creek again this season.”
As one of four Major Championships, the Spring Preview is also important to many players trying to earn invitations into other events on the Legends Junior Tour schedule. Players can make huge leaps on the Player of the Year Points list, as this event will award double points to the Top 1/3 of the field in all four age divisions (Boys 15-18, Boys 14 & Under, Girls 15-18, Girls 14 & Under). While the season is still young, the point standings are vital to earning exemptions into the HP Byron Nelson Junior and Texas Boys & Girls Junior Championship. The Top-5 finishers in the Boys 15-18 division in the Spring Preview will earn an invitation to the HP Byron Nelson Junior Championship. The Girls Champion will earn an exemption to the State Junior Girls Championship. AJGA tournament exemptions will also be awarded.
The Spring Preview will be the first of two events held during Spring Break. The second event is the third annual Jimmy Demaret Junior Classic. Named after one of Texas’ true golfing legends, the Jimmy Demaret Junior Classic was first held in 2008 at Mr. Demaret’s home course, Onion Creek Club. Last year, the tournament moved to Horseshoe Bay Resort’s Slick Rock Course and this year it moves a little further south to Riverhill CC in Kerrville.
As part of the Legends Junior Tour’s fourth annual Spring Break Series, any player who registers for both Championships will receive a $25 discount off each entry fee. So join us for two nationally-ranked events at two of Texas’ best golf courses!
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