Potential Olympic Golfers Compete in WJGS Event at the World Golf Hall of Fame

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Published: December 18, 2012

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Golf Writer Andy Reistetter lives in the Golf Capital of the World. Northeast Florida is normally known as the home of the PGA TOUR and THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass and the World Golf Hall of Fame. Now a World Junior Golf Series event staged this week on the Slammer & Squire Course at the World Golf Village in the shadows of the World Golf Hall of Fame further validates that designation. Read along with Reistetter as he recalls the 2011 event and the Mom and Coach behind the WJGS that together are changing the face and heart of Junior Golf worldwide and may produce an Olympic Golfer in the process.  

The World Junior Golf Series (WJGS) came back to Northeast Florida with the playing of the 2011 Gate American Junior, a three-round competition that ended two days before Christmas.

America's "strongest junior event" came of age in its third rendition featuring 15 nations, 74 golfers and an organization with leaders determined to change the experience of junior golf.

It all started 10 years ago in Germany with a mother seeking to improve the junior golf experience of her son.

Then an American coach worked with her son and together they realized a unique way to drive junior golf to higher goals both on and off the golf course.

The American Junior was the last of four WJGS events staged in 2011. The other three were in Germany, South Africa and Poland.

Overall the best juniors in the world from 27 countries have competed and there are plans to add six more events to the schedule.

Truly a world initiative, only 12 of the 74 golfers were from the United States and the U.S. did not have the largest contingent of players. That distinction went to Germany with 17 golfers.

The PGA TOUR's Ty Votaw gave the keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony.



Votaw is the person who led an international delegation that recently gained consensus to get go...
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