Washington Junior Golf Association

We are excited to formally announce that next year’s 49th WJGA State Championship will be in District 3 hosted by Longview Country Club and assisted by Three Rivers GC and Mint Valley GC from August 5-7, 2025! This will be our first WJGA State Championship held in Cowlitz County and we can’t wait for next summer!

Bravo gentlemen!! Bringing home the 3rd place medal. It’s been a good year for Washington teams. NPJL brings trophy home after a 6year drought, JAC and GJAC teams win 2nd and 3rd respectively and to finish off the year, Hogan Cup team comes in third!!

2024 Hogan Cup team tees off at Riverside GC in Portland, OR. 12 teams from the Western US and Hawaii battle it out in a collegiate style format of best 3 of 4 scores each day. Walker Lamb, James Bordeaux, Theo Snyder, Wyatt Brownell and Team Captain John Saegner Jr. GO WASHINGTON!

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Year 48 in the books! Cienna Lee and Theo Snyder are the 2024 State Champions! Congratz to all who played at State this year, and a huge thank you to the wonderful staff at the Home Course, 5 of which are former WJGA players! See you all next year at Longview CC!

Nami Park - hole in one - at The Home Course today during the final round of the 2024 State Championship, hole 4. Congratz Nami!

2024 State Championship registration is today at The Home Course! We open at 11:00 for all kids with tee prizes galore. Tonight is the Long Drive on the Driving Range! Congratz to all the kids who made it to State this year! Looks like an awesome week of weather too!!!

Pretty amazing showing from BOTH our teams! Boys finish second and girls finish third. Very proud of these kids. Boys; Ethan Schwan, Walker Lamb, Jacob Kang and Theo Snyder. Girls, Niuniu Zhao, Tatum Otto, Amber Li and Amanda Peng!!

The boys JAC Team arrives at Soldier Hollow Golf Course in Midway Utah to compete in the 2024 Boys Junior Americas Cup! L to R; Theo Snyder, Jacob Kang, Walker Lamb and Ethan Schwan. Watch scoring here;
https://ujga.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/ujga24/event/ujga2463/contest/3/leaderboard.htm
This is a very special year as both boys and girls are competing at the same location at the same time. GO WASHINGTON!

GJAC 2024 Team ready to go! We are competing this year at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah. GO WASHINGTON! L to R; Team Captain Kathy Curtiss, Amanda Peng, Niuniu Zhao, Amber Li, Tatum Otto and Team Captain Patty Curtiss! This event is VERY special for all and this year the boys JAC team is also competing on the same course at the same time!

Announcing the 2024 boys and girls Junior Americas Cup teams! Girls; Niuniu Zhao, Tatum Otto, Amanda Peng and Amber Li (missing) Boys, Ethan Schwan, Theodore Snyder, Walker Lamb and Jacob Kang. Both teams represent the State of Washington and will be playing at Soldier Hollow GC in Midway, Utah July 28-Aug 1! Congratz to all! 18 teams from the Western US, Canada and Mexico travel to Utah to compete in this very prestigious tournament.

2024 NPJL was conducted at Emerald Valley Golf and Resort in Creswell, Or. British Columbia, Washington and Oregon played stroke play for 2 days using the best 5 of 6 scores. Congratulations to Team Washington who prevailed by 3 strokes over British Columbia. Tatum Otto, Niuniu Zhao, Chanyoung Park, Melia Cerenzia, Berkley Ledesma and Carly Ikei represented Team Washington and brought home our trophy “Lucille”. Niuniu Zhao also win low individual and captured 4 AJGA stars in the process. Thank you to Oregon Golf Association and the golf course staff for hosting our girls at such an amazing facility. Lucille has returned after a 7 year absence because British Columbia has been on a roll!!

The final final result for trips to Junior World in San Diego this year, boys Conrad Chisman, Logan Medcalf, Alex Harwood and Brock Maulding. With the girls, a bit different as we had TWO girls playing for points only, Niuniu Zhao and Cienna Lee. Winning the trips were Tatum Otto, Chanyoung Park, Emma Wong and Berkley Ledesma. Congratz to all!

Today is the 2024 Jr Wirld Qualifer at Oakbrook G@CC in Tacoma! 180 players tee it up to vie for a trip to San Diego’s Junior World in July! 4 boys and 4 girls will win a trip to CA! Watch us here! https://wjga.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/wjga24/event/wjga246/contest/17/leaderboard.htm

Henry Marshall scores an ace on hole #6 today! Congratz Henry!

Another blustery day at Lakeland Village, but some excellent golf! Boys 12-13 had a sudden death playoff with Christian Harlow the winner after 3 holes. Thank you Jeremy, new head professional and hard working staff to make this day a memorable one for our juniors. Our green jacket WJGA rules officials are so very devoted, and teach the players as we play! Love golf, love kids, you might be a good volunteer fit for WJGA!

Well our kids know how to play in this weather! Henry Hsiao sank his 3 wood for a hole in one at Lakeland Village GC in Allyn! Thank you staff at Lakeland Village golf course for such a fun day even in this liquid sunshine we have! 

2024 Western Open now in the books. Some blustery spring weather per usual, but we soldiered on! The home of the Western Open - Capital City Golf Course!!! Thank you all! Winners this year shown below. The unique thing that happened this year was the boys and girls both had sudden death playoffs! Finally.... after 11 holes and 3 holes respectively, both divisions were declared co-champions. Walker Lamb and Jacob Kang win boys and Niuniu Zhao and Emma Wong for the girls! Congratz to all!
In addition, the 2024 NPJL team was announced and honored with their team golf bags! Tatum Otto, Niuniu Zhao, Chanyoung Park, Melia Cerenzia, Berkley Ledesma and Carly Ikei.
See full results here. https://wjga.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/wjga24/event/wjga243/contest/1/leaderboard.htm

Match Play winners! Boys; Ben Wilson, wins 1 up and Grady Millar runner up. Girls; Nicole Tang, wins 7&6 and Claire Chang runner up! Thank you to Camaloch GC and mother nature finally brought out the sun in the final hours on Sunday!

2024 State Match Play is underway. Thank you to Camaloch GC for hosting 135 of our kids!
Watch us play at https://wjga.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/wjga24/event/wjga241/contest/310/leaderboard.htm

2024 golf show at the Seattle convention center is under way! Come on down!

Congratulations to Angela Zhang for being nominated for Sports Star of the Year by the Seattle Sports Commission after her amazing 2023 season! Support Angela and make sure to get in your vote at www.seattlesports.org!

The Winter Classic is in the books for 2023! Our host was Linden G@CC in Puyallup and we played nine holes in the dense (at times) fog. Happy faces! Merry Christmas to all and to all “see you next year!” A big thank you as always to our dedicated volunteers - the engine that drives WJGA!!

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Talking Christmas Lights (Personalize) I don't know how you got tangled up with someone like me, but I'm glad you did! Wishing you a ball of happiness and string of good luck in the year ahead!

We’re ready to tee off for the 2023 Turkey Shoot at High Cedars Golf Course. Great weather! Last year year these turkeys fed 215 families with 2000 lbs of turkeys!

WJGA honors Mike Peluso at our annual meeting this year! 45 years of service to this mission for junior golfers. Can’t say enough about his contributions, the recruitment program for rules officials and their training as well. We are so blessed! Thank you forever Mike!!

The 47th Washington Junior, Golf Association state championship is in the books! Thank you so much to Moses Lake golf course, The Links at Moses pointe, and Lakeview golf and country club for hosting 252 of Washington’s finest Junior golfers. Overall winners are Ben Wilson, and Angela Zhang —- congrats to them and to all the junior golfers who played this past week  at the state championship. You are the best in the state! 

And again! Our kids are on fire at this years State Championship in Moses Lake. Lexi Mahler hole in one on hole 6 at Moses Lake Gc

Brenden Cogburn, hole in one! 8/8/23 at Lakeview GC -number 15, hits his 52degree wedge 87 yards into the hole!! Congratz!!!

With fast greens and long yardage, Nk’Mip Canyon Golf course in BC was the host of the 46th GIRLS JUNIOR AMERICAS CUP! On tribal lands and with time honored native energy, a very special treat for all 18 teams. Our Washington team finished in solid third place!!! A very heart felt thank you to Tyler Torrieri and the CJGA for the tons of time and energy put into running this event for 72 girls. 
The necks of Angela Zhang, Amber Li, Audrey Park, and Chanyoung Park will be adorned with third place medals in 2023!!