New England Junior Championship
From Left to Right: Chuck Claffey, Connor O’Brien, Andrew Sciarretta,
Max Theodorakis, Evan Grenus, Nathaniel Dong, Michael VanDerLaan,
Jason Liu, Jim Homiski, Michael Moraghan
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or the second consecutive year
Connecticut’s seven-player junior team
jumped out to a first round lead in the
New England Junior Championship, only to be
overtaken by eventual winner Massachusetts.
The 6,801 yard, par 71 Ledgemont Country
Club in Seekonk, Massachusetts hosted the
2014 Championship, an event which draws the
best young players from each of the six New
England states in a 54-hole team competition.
The team total is the sum of the best five of
seven scores for each round.
Players who have net yet reached their
18th birthday are eligible to be selected by
their respective state golf association. The
CSGA invites the winner and runner-up in the
Connecticut Junior Amateur Championship
played at Watertown Golf Club, and five
additional players based upon their competitive
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Connecticut State Golf Association
record in a wide range of state, regional and
national level tournaments.
Every state junior champion in New
England competed in the 2014 Championship,
including Evan Grenus of Glastonbury and TPC
River Highlands. Grenus led Connecticut with
rounds of 71-74-70 215, good for a runnerup finish in the overall individual standings.
The recent Glastonbury High School graduate,
who is beginning his freshman year at Wofford
College this fall, concluded a stellar junior golf
career in which he won the Stan Trojanowski
Northern Junior and the Challenge Cup
Tournament Players Championship in 2013
before capturing the 2014 CSGA Junior
Amateur Championship.
Grenus was a member of the both the
2012 and 2013 Connecticut teams in the New
England Junior. The 2012 team captured the