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hp Boys Junior Championship Headed to Westin Innisbrook Resort
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Number Nine on the Copperhead Course |
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The AJGA will return to familiar territory
this summer when Westin Innisbrook Resort plays host to the
17th annual hp Boys Junior Championship from July 28 –
August 1.
The Resort hosted the AJGA’s second event in 1978 –
the Association’s inaugural year – and has been
the site of 16 other AJGA events over the last 25 years. The
AJGA’s last visit to the Palm Harbor, Fla., Resort was
in 2001, when competitors at the Rolex Tournament of Champions
battled it out on Innisbrook’s Copperhead and Island
Courses. The same two courses will be used for the event this
summer.
Innisbrook opened in December of 1970 when the Island Golf
Course officially opened. The Copperhead Course – the
Resort’s premier layout – opened two years later.
The PGA TOUR’s Tampa event called the Copperhead Course
home from 1990-2002. The track was recently tabbed the fourth-ranked
course in the state of Florida.
The hp Boys Junior Championship has amassed quite a champions’
list in its first 16 years. Current PGA TOUR stars who captured
the title in their junior days include Jim Furyk, who captured
the inaugural event in 1987, David Duval, Tiger Woods, and
Ty Tryon, who carded three rounds of 66 or better to win the
1999 crown.
hp, an Official AJGA Sponsor, enters its first year as title
sponsor of the event. The company has sponsored the hp Scholastic
Junior All-America Team for the last nine years.
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