AJGA tournament good for business | Local News Stories
Snagging a college golf team scholarship is a big deal. Snagging a major event, like AJGA Junior Open at The Bridges presented by the City of Montrose, to be played in your town is another big deal.
First of all, scholarships offer youngsters, otherwise unable to attend college or to pursue competitive golf as a vocation, a chance to live their dream.
Secondly, college golf, the next step after junior golf, has become a big deal. College golf is highly competitive and is the “farm system” for the PGA and other professional tours in the world. The leaderboard on the PGA Tour on any given Sunday is populated mostly by great college players like Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and a host of others. Because junior golf programs like AJGA showoff the talents of tomorrow’s golf stars, there…
