Welcome to the 2010 Lancaster County Junior Golf Tour
Registration will be open on, or before, March 1, 2010.
We will notify you by email as soon as registration is available.
Welcome to the 2010 Lancaster Country Junior Golf Tour. It’s already been a long winter but the season is not far off. We’re excited to present this opportunity for juniors to play. We offer a competitive environment while emphasizing etiquette, the rules of golf, pace of play and proper scorekeeping. We also hope that players form meaningful friendships as they play throughout the summer.
Our schedule of five regular season events and our “Major” (at Tanglewood) attracts some to the best junior players in the county to the Tour. Points are accumulated based on finish position (by age group) and the top 40-point earners advance to the Tour Championship at Media Heights Country Club on Tuesday August 3rd. The top points earners then play against York County in the Junior War of the Roses - a Ryder Cup format hosted, by Lancaster this year and contested at Conestoga Country Club on Thursday day August 12th.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be adding a two-some of girls to the Junior War Team (assuming we have enough registrations, so encourage your girls to play!). Also, the Board agreed to allow range finders in our regular season events, the “Major”, and the Championship. Please remember that these devices may only measure distance.
On behalf of the entire Board, I’d like to thank our volunteers and sponsors. From the registration table to the scorer’s table, the volunteer’s efforts make our events special. To our sponsors, none of this would be possible without your generosity.
Best of luck - play well and respect the spirit of the game.
Kevin Palic
President - LCJGT Board of Directors
Tournament Director's message for 2010
We have had a very cold winter so far, but another great year of golf in warm weather is on the horizon for junior golfers in Lancaster County! We have put together an outstanding venue of five regular tournaments, and along with our “Major” tournament, the season will be capped with the LCJGT Championship at Meadia Heights GC.
The Tour is returning to one site we did not play last year – Fairview GC. We are returning again to Overlook, Foxchase, Four Seasons and Crossgates. The LCJGT “Major” event, where points will be awarded at 1.5x the rate at “regular” events, will be again held at our fourth tour stop of the summer – Tanglewood GC. This event actually replaces the former LANCO Junior, but is now being run by the LCJGT under our playing and eligibility rules as it was in 2009.
We are excited to return to Meadia Heights GC for our Tour Championship – there is no better shot maker’s course locally than Meadia – the course will offer an exceptional challenge to the Tour’s best golfers.The season will end with the exciting Junior War of the Roses match play tournament hosted by the LCJGT at Conestoga CC. Conestoga will provide an exceptional challenge as Lancaster, of course, will be vying to bring home our SEVENTH consecutive JrWoR team trophy.
Speaking of the JrWoR – The LCJGT and our York County counterpart, the YCJGA, have decided to expand our JrWoR teams by ADDING TWO FEMALE COMPETITORS to each team. We can do this ONLY IF there are sufficient registrations this spring.
Another change from 2009 is that RANGE FINDERS will now be allowed for use in all competitions through the LCJGT Championship. From our many golf contacts in the world of golf outside of our area, it appears that their use is becoming very common – so we are allowing them, too. Please be aware that the range finder may MEASURE DISTANCE ONLY. Other types that measure other factors like wind, slope etc. may not be used.
This will be my eighth year as the LCJGT Tournament Director and I am looking forward to working with the new LCJGT Board of Directors. As always, we are all enthusiastically looking forward to running quality tournaments for our players to compete in and their friends and families to attend as spectators.
Last year was an outstanding year and I have a feeling that it will be exceeded this year if we can have a little luck with the weather. Keep your fingers crossed! Good luck to all ---- see you at one of the mandatory rules clinics!
Skip Walters
LCJGT Tournament Director
LCJGT 2009
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