Third Place at State Junior Team Championship (click)

Gary shot five under par today and Charles shot even par as the Emerald Greens Junior Team finished third in the Florida State Golf Association Junior Team Championship.

Gary, and two friends Charles Silverfield and Skyler Estes teamed up at Orange Lake Resort near Orlando, Florida. They are representing their country club as the "Emerald Greens Junior Program (boys)" Team.

Skyler Estes was forced to withdraw after 12 holes on the first day from heat exhaustion. After forcing fluids and cooling under air conditioning Skyler was reported to be doing fine but unable to continue.

On day one Gary shot 73 and Charles shot 74 for a 147 total and a tie for 7th. The tournament scoring is the low two scores of a three person team for each day so Charles and Gary went it alone on Sunday.

Charles was well under par for much of the day and finished even. Gary had three birdies on the front to shoot two under. And then he birdied ten, eleven, and twelve with nice putts and then chipped in on sixteen for a total of seven birdies on the day. He had an unplayable lie penalty on 14 for a bogey (and a three putt on number six for his other bogey).

Gary's statistics for the day are as follows: Fairways-13; Greens-14; Birdies-7; Bogeys-2; Others-0; Putts-27; Penalty Strokes-1; 3-Putts-1; length of putts made-"a mile."

The 67 was tied for low round of the tournament and brought him to third medalist of the tournament. This tournament is used by the national junior golf rankings, and scoring average in tournament play is a large part of the rankings. See the two main ranking systems at the following links: National Junior Golf Scoreboard and Golf Week Junior Golf Rankings.

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