SOUTHERN SECTION GOLF: YOUNG GOLFERS NOT KIDDING AGE IRRELEVANT THESE DAYS AT SECTION CHAMPIONSHIPS.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Younger and younger. It used to be that most high school golfers would pay their dues, learn the ropes, wait their turn and do all that traditional underclass stuff before making an impact as seniors. For an indication of how far those days have been left behind, just look at the 11 area qualifiers for today's Southern Section individual golf championship. Only three of them are seniors, and four are sophomores. ``More and more kids are playing, and a lot of them are getting instruction and state-of-the-art equipment,'' said Westlake High coach Dave Costley, who will be making an 11th consecutive trip to the section final today, with junior Brett Perry. Colin Wilcox of Camarillo Camarillo (kă'mərē`yō), city (1990 pop. 52,303), Ventura co., S Calif.; inc. 1964. It is the center of a fertile farm area where citrus fruits and flowers are grown. - the Daily News Co-Player of the Year last season as a sophomore - Brandon Christianson of Valencia and Jeremy Bovill of Agoura are the other area juniors who have qualified for the 7 a.m. section final at Canyon Country Club in Palm Springs. Ben Fox of Oakwood of North Hollywood, Brett Kanda of Flintridge Prep of La Canada, Joey Joey after Joseph Grimaldi, famous 19th-century clown. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 45] See : Clowns Greiner of Hart of Newhall and Erik Jarvey of Highland of Palmdale will play today as sophomores. Seniors John Denny
''This article or section is being rewritten at One derivation of the surname is from the Scottish Highland word caol, 'channel', or 'strait'. There are other possible derivations (see below). Dowden of Camarillo - the other half of the returning Daily News Co-Players of the Year - round out a youthful area contingent. Even the seniors were standouts earlier. Dowden was a medalist in a State Amateur qualifier qual·i·fi·er n. 1. One that qualifies, especially one that has or fulfills all appropriate qualifications, as for a position, office, or task. 2. as a sophomore. Beck, who will join Dowden at California next season, shot an area season-best 65 last year. Denny, bound for Point Loma Point Loma is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by the San Diego Bay and Old Town and the north by the San Diego River. Nazarene, nearly won the Pacific League championship as a junior. Two years ago, Highland senior Lawrence Jarvey became his school's first participant in the section final. Today, younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
``Maybe it's hard work,'' the younger Jarvey said of why more golfers are doing well at a younger age. In his case, it's the combination of hard work and good competition: ``I'm playing with a lot of advanced people better than me - like my brother's friends.'' Hart sophomore Greiner, who started playing at age 10 and shot 5-under-par at Vista Valencia's nine-hole Chica course within a year, thinks the work young golfers are able and willing to do to learn the game helps speed the process. ``I used to play Chica four times a day during the summer when I started,'' said the Hart sophomore, who had a best of 69 this season, at par-72 Soule Park. ``I can't say it was dedication, because at that point I was just trying to figure out the game. ``The game keeps getting more complex and you keep learning more as you go along,'' Greiner said, ``and you learn you can progress at almost any time.'' For many young golfers these days, that progress seems to be coming earlier. --Encore: Dowden, Beck, Wilcox and Christianson will be making repeat trips to the section final. Dowden led area entries last year, shooting 70 to finish two shots behind section champion Joshua Wooding of Riverside Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. . Dowden, Beck (71) and Christianson (72) all advanced to the CIF/SCGA Championship at SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Members Club in Murrieta. Wilcox reached CIF/SCGA in 2001 as a freshman. --State championship: This will be the final time the four-section CIF/SCGA Championship will be a season-ending event. Next school year, the California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (abbreviated CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from others in that it covers most high schools in the state of will hold state championships in boys and girls' golf, with the top three teams and top 12 individuals at CIF/SCGA advancing. AREA SOUTHERN SECTION QUALIFIERS Player, school - Year - Qualifying score Ben Fox, Oakwood - Sophomore - 69 Kyle Dowden, Camarillo - Senior - 69 Brandon Beck, Oak Park - Senior - 70 John Denny, Crescenta Valley - Senior - 72 Brett Kanda, Flintridge Prep - Sophomore - 72 Colin Wilcox, Camarillo - Junior - 72 Brett Perry, Westlake - Junior - 73 Brandon Christianson, Valencia - Junior - 74 Joey Greiner, Hart - Sophomore - 74 Erik Jarvey, Highland - Sophomore - 74 Jeremy Bovill, Agoura - Junior - 75 CAPTION(S): box Box: AREA SOUTHERN SECTION QUALIFIERS (see text) |
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