U.S. College Sports Camp (USCC) returns to the Philippines this summer with two great events lined up for local junior golfers.
The USCC Philippines 2019 Summer US College Golf Camp will be the follow-up event to the very successful US College Golf Camp held in November 2018, a groundbreaking event in Philippine junior golf where US college coaches ran golf camps in the country for the first time. They will also hold their very first local junior golf event, the 2019 USCC Philippines Summer Junior Challenge.
The Camp will be held at the Orchard Golf and Country Club on June 1 and 2, and the tournament will have the Southlinks Golf Club as host on May 29, and the Orchard Golf and Country Club on May 30 and 31, for the tournament.
The camp will give the participants a college training day experience in a small group setting directly under the US coaches. Each camper will receive in-depth expert instruction on full swing, short game, course management, tournament preparation, mental game, fitness and instruction. They will also be given an overview on NCAA recruitment and the transition from junior golf to college.
The tournament on the other hand is open for all camp participants and will have Boys and Girls Age Divisions in 18 Under, 14 Under and 12 Under. The tournament will be a World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), Junior Golf Scoreboard (JGS) ranking and Global Junior Golf Ranking (GJGS) event.
The tournament will also serve as a qualifier for the Boys and Girls 15-18 years old to the 40th North and South Junior Golf Championships in Pinehurst, North Carolina, in July this year.
The camp will be handled by US NCAA Division I coaches, Richard Church, the golf director for Men’s and Women’s Golf at Southern Utah University, and Lisa Strom, the Women’s head coach at Texas State University. Church has been with Southern Utah for more than 22 years while Strom is in her third year at the helm at Texas State. Prior to that, she spent almost six years at her alma matter, Ohio State University, as an assistant after being a professional for 10 years. She played in the LPGA in 2003 and from 2007-2010. A third coach still to be named will also join the team during the camp.
George Duangmanee, founder and president of USCC, said, “We want to open opportunities for Philippine junior golfers to further shine in the international stage and to introduce them to US college coaches and recruiters. There’s a lot of talent here who can play college golf in the US. They just need to be properly seen and introduced to the right people.”
All interested parties may register with the Secretariat at infoi@uscollegeshowcaseasia.com. Inquiries and registration may also be messaged and texted to +639178983568 and +639613588816 or to the US College Sports Camp Philippines FB page
(@uscollegecampPHL). The field will be limited to forty (40) participants. The event fee for both the camp and the tournament is P4,000.
The event is made possible by US College Sports Camp Thailand in cooperation with Golf Globally, Llc. JLM Hotel and Food Management Inc. (Jollibee-Lopez, Quezon) and venue benefactors, The Orchard Golf and Country Club the Southlinks Golf Club.
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