The Carolinas narrowly won the final-day singles competition, but the Virginias rallied late and took a two-point overall victory on Sunday at the 28th Virginias-Carolinas Junior Matches.
The eight-golfer Virginias team won three of the final four singles matches to win the championship at the Country Club of Landfall’s Pete Dye course in Wilmington.
All-Conference Tri-Nine golfers
Michael Cromie (GH) 34.6
Andy Knox (APX) 35
Alex Ehlert (AD) 35.4
Grant Houser (HS) 35.9
Jake Stone (HS) 36.7
Andrew Fowler (GH) 37.5
Ryan Gilbert (GH) 38.5
Matt Hancock (FV) 38.6
Micah Lawrence (LC) 38.6
Nick Zurowski (HS) 38.75
Zach Oplinger (APX) 39.4
Cameron Pratt (FV) 39.5
Tri-Nine team points
Green Hope 88
Holly Springs 76.5
Apex 69
Fuquay-Varina 56.5
Athens Drive 47
Lee County 35
Middle Creek 35
Cary 24
Panther Creek 19
After 36 holes of play, Apex rising senior Andy Knox took fourth place at the 60th Carolinas Junior Championship on Thursday at the Dogwood course at The Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C.
Knox's three-day scores of 70, 74 and 74 put him four strokes back of the top spot and a 4-over-par finish. He was joined in the top 10 by former Apex teammate John Conners, who was 7-over.
A Cary-area golfer had won the past two Carolinas Junior Championship titles.
With rain on the first day, a number of competitors at the 60th Carolinas Junior Championship were forced to play rounds one and two yesterday on the Dogwood course at The Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C.
Lee Bedford won the Junior Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association in 2007. Michael Marshburn won it in 2008. Now Andy Knox, the third-ranked golfer in the state, will try to become the third straight Cary-area golfer to win the title this year.
With two rounds of 67, Raleigh's Grayson Murray won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship sectional qualifier at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary on Monday, therefore qualifying him for the event which takes place July 20-25. Joining the rising sophomore at Leesville Road is Andy Knox, a rising senior at Apex High, has qualified for this summer's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship after placing in the top-four at the sectional qualifier yesterday at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary. Knox finished third after shooting a 69 in the first round and following that up with a 70 in the second. This year's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship will be at Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster, N.J. from July 20-25. Also qualifying were Trevor Cone, of Concord, N.C., and Leif Neijstrom of Greensboro. Coalter Paxon IV, from Wilson, and James Ellis, from Greenville, earned alternate spots.
Andy Knox, a rising senior at Apex High School, has qualified for this summer's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship after placing in the top-four at the sectional qualifier yesterday at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary.
Knox finished third after shooting a 69 in the first round and following that up with a 70 in the second.
This year's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship will be at Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster, N.J. from July 20-25.
Three area golfers are in the hunt at the 59th annual CGA Carolinas Junior Championship in Okatie, S.C., which concludes today at Chechessee Creek Club.
Through two rounds, Cary’s Michael Marshburn and Apex’s John Connors are in a five-way tie for second place, two strokes off the lead. Cary’s Andy Knox is in a three-way tie for seventh, three strokes off the lead.
Marshburn shot a two-over 72 in the first round and one-under 69 in the second, for a two-day total of 141. Connors shot 70-71, and Knox scored back-to-back 71s.
