Round 1 Recap

Catherine O'Donnell, a hometown favorite, is out to the lead in the Girls 13-18 division at the Sawgrass Valley Course.  Miss O'Donnell, a 3rd year player, will be looking for her first FCWT win on Sunday when she heads to the golf course.  This fall, 18 year old Catherine will be heading to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be a Tarheel.  In the meantime the Ponte Vedra resident will be looking to take home the Champions Title on Sunday.  To do so, she will need to hold off

Ginger Howard of Bradenton, FL (2012), who will start just 3 shots back of Catherine.  The 13 year old Howard is establishing herself well in the older division.  She already has two top 3 finishes this season and would love to win on Sunday.  She and Catherine will be paired with

Lauren Cate of St. Augustine, FL (2008) for the final round.  Miss Cate's round of 77 puts her in 3rd place to start Sunday's round.  Tyler Etcheberry of Wesley Chapel, FL (2008) will start the final round in a tie for 4th at 78 with Brighid Hourihan of Ponte Vedra, who won last week at the Amelia Island Open.

Ten year old Stephanie Liu of St. Albans, MO (2015) is leading the younger girls division

Thirty-nine boys are began the first round of the TPC Sawgrass event on the Valley course, only one was able to post a sub-par round. 

Fourteen year old A.J. Crouch of Jacksonville, FL (2012) carded 3 birdies and led this division in pars with 13. Crouch finished at 1 under par to lead all scores in this division on Saturday.  A.J. previously finished 5th at the World Golf event where he improved his final round by 5 strokes.  He will hope to do the same tomorrow as he will be pursued by

 Kevin Giulini of Frankfurt, GERMANY (2011) who finished 2nd at the Amelia Island event last weekend and

14 year old Alexi Piacente of Montreal, QC (2011) who is playing in his first event of the season.  Giulini and Piacente will start the final round tied for 2nd, just 2 strokes back of Crouch.

Fourteen year old James Yoon of Asuncion, PARAGUAY will start in 4th place at 74.  Yoon has already won once this season at Naples, so he shouldn't be counted out.  Bailey Truesdell of Grand Blanc, MI (2012) and Noah Walker of Norwell, MA (2012) are currently tied for 5th at 75.  Three players are just 5 shots back of our leader Crouch and will start the final round tied for 7th:  A.J. Cadamagnini of Athens, OH (2009), Kevin Liu of St. Albans, MO (2012) and Andrew Ullmann of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (2013).

In the Boys 11-12 division, 11 players teed off for round one and three of them are currently tied for the lead.  Timmy Hanzelko of Longwood, FL (2014), David Snyder of Austin, TX (2016), and

Donald Stimble of Shell Knob, MO (2014).  Twelve year old Hanzelko is playing in his first FCWT event.  Ten year old Snyder, a first year player, has already won once this season, and has two 4th place finishes. Twelve year old Stimble is also playing in his first FCWT event.  Two-time winner, Daniel Jaramillo of Colombia (2014) is tied for 4th place with 12 year old Drew Langan of Winnetka, IL (2013) who is playing in his 5th event of the season.  Charles Padial of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (2014) will start the final round in 6th place at 84, 5 shots back of our co-leaders