Got to love the Richmond Times Dispatch, this article will be on the newsstands in the morning. VSGA Youth Championship Posted on August 6, 2013 Please click here for online scoring >> MIDLOTHIAN –– At the 7th Virginia State Golf Association Youth Championship for boys and girls ages 13 and under at Independence Golf Club on Wednesday, 13-year-old Isaac Simmons of Huddleston shot 1-under-par 71 to lead the way after the first round in the 12-13 age division. Overnight rains that continued into Tuesday morning made scoring difficult. Simmons, a rising eighth-grader at Forest Middle School in the Lynchburg area, accounted for an impressive total of six birdies and shot two under par on the inward nine. He birdied the par-3 11th and birdied both par 5s on his outward half, Nos. 13 and 17. All of his birdies on the second nine came inside 8 feet and he hit the 443-yard par-5 17th hole in two shots. Also among the 12-13-year-olds boys, Will Gibbs, 13, of Virginia Beach and Ross Funderburke, 12, of Roanoke each returned scores of 2-over 74. Thirteen-year-olds Woodson Smith of Martinsville (75) and Jimmie Massie of Lynchburg (76) completed the top five scorers in the age bracket. Meanwhile, Adam Gibbs, 13, of Virginia Beach, Eli Newman, 13, of Leesburg and Patrick Gareiss, 12, of Chesapeake each opened with 77. Eleven-year-olds Michael Brennan (Leesburg) and Taylor Hubbard (Aylett) shot strong rounds of 74 and are tied atop the 10-11 age division. Brennan, a rising sixth-grader at Smarts Mill Middle School in Leesburg, started the second nine by making consecutive birdie putts of 10 feet, helping him to his low competitive 18-hole round of the summer. Hubbard’s day was highlighted by draining a 45-footer for birdie at the par-5 13th hole. The rising sixth grader at Hamilton-Holmes Middle School in King William is a regular participant in VSGA Junior Golf Club events. His day-one total is one off his best rounds of the summer. He carded a 73 in a Junior Golf Club event at Independence on July 29. youthinsideNorthern Virginian Victoria Tip-Aucha (Manassas Park), 11, is playing up an age group, but is in command of the 12-13 girls’ age group after carding a first round score of 73. She owns an 11-stroke advantage entering the final round. Lisa Qin, 12, of Glen Allen shot 84 on day one. Tip-Aucha, who has played in a host of VSGA Junior Golf Club events, made birdies inside 10 feet at Nos. 1, 5 and 10 before knocking her third shot to 6 inches at the par-5 17th hole for a tap-in birdie. She finished second in the 12-13 girls’ age group at the VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship in mid-July, was runner-up at the Bobby Bowers Memorial Junior Tournament this summer and her first round score signals a continuation of her strong play. In the 10-11 girls’ division, Kelly Salamy, 11, of Williamsburg played consistently and registered a score of 75. The rising sixth-grader at Berkeley Middle School was even par on the final nine holes. She is six strokes ahead of Rory Weinfurther of Midlothian. The central Virginian and sixth-grader at St.Edward-Epiphany School recorded two birdies in her round of 81. The boys 9 and under division are playing 18 holes each day on the club’s nine-hole par-3 Sawyer Short Course (2,104 yards, par 27-27—54). Nine-year-old Garrett Kuhla (Richmond) leads the boys division with a first day score of 8-over 62, while fellow 9-year-old Luke Sheakley (Bristow) and 8-year-old Jonathan McEwen (Portsmouth) each had 64. Salem’s Trey Joyce, 9, had 70 to complete the low four aggregates in the age division. Seventy junior boys and girls are participating in the two-day event, which concludes on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
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