51st LWGA Junior
Girls Championship
By Mary Capouch
Brooke Tyree captured the LWGA Junior Girls title this week at Alexandria
Country Club.
Tyree, a junior at Sulphur High, also earned medalist honors with a
round of 71 on Wednesday, July 13, and then fired a 74 Thursday to win the
Championship.
Runner-up honors were shared by defending champion Abbey Daniel
(72-78), Covington Archbishop Hannan sophomore, and current Amateur
Champion Mary Chauvin (73-77), a senior at Hammond High.
Brooke Duzan, Sulphur High senior, won the first flight (82-75). Tying
for first in the second flight were Carly Whittington, 14, a ninth grader at
Lacassine High in Kinder and also Mckenzie Leduff, 14, a freshman at St.
Louis Catholic in Lake Charles. Both players shot 88-86. The winner of the
Youth Division was 12-year-old Liza Lapeyre (93-92), New Orleans, a seventh
grader at Isadore Newman School.
Final LWGA Junior Girls’ results as follows:
Championship Flight
Brooke Tyree
Sulphur
71 – 74 -- 145
Abbey Daniel
Covington 72 – 78 -- 150
Mary Chauvin
Hammond 73 – 77 -- 150
Alden Wallace
Shreveport 80 – 73 -- 153
Camille Simon
New Orleans 76 – 79 -- 155
Aoife O’Donovan
Monroe
75 – 82 -- 157
Rachel Dupree
Shreveport 78 – 81 -- 159
Daphney Tilton
Iowa
80 – 83 -- 163
First Flight
Brooke Duzan
Sulphur
82 – 75 -- 157
Madison Bates
Alexandria 85 – 75 – 160
Gillian Cole
Shreveport 81 – 79 -- 160
Cassidy Lambert
New Orleans 83 – 78 -- 161
Madeline Boudreau New Orleans 83 – 85 – 168
Josie Headrick
Slidell
84 – 84 -- 168
Reese Drezins
Slidell
81 – 89 -- 170
Second Flight
Carly Whittington
Kinder
88 – 86 – 174
Mckenzie Leduff
Lake Charles 88 – 86 – 174
Savannah Ennis
Abita Springs 90 – 91 – 181
Liza Lapeyre
New Orleans 93 – 92 – 185
Madeline Gordon
Kenner
101 – 85 – 186
Lexie Barham
Monroe
139 – 119 – 258
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In other LWGA news, the Dick and Linda Batti Junior Girls Scholarship
was established honoring the Battis, who have generously given their time
and energy toward LWGA junior girls’ golf. Announced at the Players’
Dinner, were the second recipients and co-winners of the $1,000 scholarship
scholarship: seniors Madeline Gordon, Kenner, who will be a freshman
at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Savannah Ennis,
Covington, who will enter Spring Hill College in Mobile.