Grady Wisecup, 10, practices his putting at Blues Creek Golf Club Thursday morning. Wisecup, who has played golf for the past four years, was getting in some extra work prior to his round of the Union County Junior Golf Academy-Tour. The tour continues next week at Rolling Meadows on Tuesday and the Ridge on Thursday.
(Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)
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The Union County Junior Golf Academy-Tour held its second tournament of the 2018 season on Thursday.
The weather was more cooperative for the event that was held at Blues Creek. All of the Tour players got in 18 holes, something they couldn’t do when the season kicked off on Tuesday at Timberview.
Rain on opening day forced some Tour players to cut their round to just nine holes.
Chris Borjas was the top golfer in the Tour boys event on Thursday with an 18-hole score of 80.
Olivia Ishmael turned in a 97 for 18 holes as the best performer in the Tour girls category.
Lydia Cunningham shot a 66 for the Tour girls on nine holes.
Madden Ungerer shot a 45 to edge Berkley Behrens (46) during the nine-hole Academy event.
Additional scores were as follows:
Tour boys (18 holes)
Egan O’Hara-118, Grant Hamm-124, Jared Larriuiz-128, Ryan Beckhoff-163.
Tour girls (18 holes)
Cassady Van Dyke-104, Emily Williams-107, Gabby Vamos-112, Veronique Grand-120, Caitlin Johnson-128.
Academy (nine holes)
Kaleb Cox-47, Jason Everly-48, Mason Rausch-50, Miles Young-51, Colin Staats-53, Jackson Burns-55, Brady Cordonnier-55, Grady Wisecup-60, Finn Edie-62, Dalton Smith-64, Lane McCormick-64, Reese Cordonnier-65, Nate Russell-66, Jorja Ary-68, Cayden Larriuz-68, Sawyer Smith-68, Collin Buchholz-70, Logan Landsettle-88.
The program will continue with two events next week.
The golfers will play on Tuesday at Rolling Meadows and at The Ridge on Thursday. Both will begin at 9 a.m.