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News and stories highlighting our membersCountdown: 10 Best Moments of SCGA Junior in 2017
SCGA Junior has had a lot of awesome moments in 2017, but only ten have made our list. Check it out and let us know your top ten moments with us! 10. Launch of SCGA Junior's College Prep Program The four-week summer program, which costs participants just $20, provided...
Off To College!
Remember your first college visit? On a beautiful, sprawling campus filled with endless hopes and dreams? It’s with that nostalgia in mind that we offered a unique opportunity to our high school aged juniors, with an emphasis on golf, of course. SCGA Junior members...
Learning To Compete
Riding on the success of the Learn to Compete instruction classes, a new opportunity has been created for our juniors to grow their games. Beginning in 2018, SCGA Junior will launch a tournament series focused on providing a platform for junior golfers to gain...
Making College Prep A Reality
It's 6 p.m. on a Tuesday night and a dozen kids are strolling into the Don Knabe Golf Center & Junior Academy. They range in age from 13 to 17, and none are carrying golf clubs. A few instead have notebooks and laptops. They are arriving at the newly redesigned...
Teeing Up Mentorships
The road to success is rarely lonely. Mentors serve as a guiding force along the path to achieving goals and fulfilling dreams. Recently, SCGA Junior held a special Play Day, one that jumpstarted mentorships for years to come. Held at TPC Valencia, this outing was...
Inspired From Within
You never know what life experience will strike a chord with a junior. What program or person will get them excited about their future, and a potential career? For Brooke Miller, an SCGA Junior scholar from Chino Hills, her experience growing up with SCGA Junior...
Learning To Compete
When school gets let out, we begin to dive in. Every summer for the past five years, SCGA Junior has supported teams wanting to participate in the San Gabriel Valley Junior Golf Summer League. This year is no different, as SCGA Junior compiled two teams of juniors...
SCGA Junior Member Qualifies for U.S. Open Sectionals
On May 9 at Andalusia CC, Edwin Kuang, a member of SCGA Junior, earned co-medalist honors at U.S. Open local qualifying to advance to Sectional Qualifying on June 5 at Big Canyon CC in Newport Beach. At just 15 years of age, Edwin fired a 3-under par 69 to finish as...
An Afternoon With World No. 1
It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. Meet the person in the world who’s best at what you want to do with your life. For Jasmine and Diamond Lew, two teenagers from SCGA Junior, they received that opportunity last week, when the two aspiring professional golfers spent...
An Augusta Dream
With the perfectly manicured Augusta National grass beneath his feet, SCGA Junior member Evan Chien graced the same lush fairways as Woods, Nicklaus and Palmer with adolescent exuberance. Evan had found heaven on earth. His introduction to life inside the ropes came...
SCGA Junior Scholar Knows the Benefits of Giving Back
Matthew Carungay will proudly walk across the stage at La Mirada High School’s graduation ceremony next month. He will be finishing one chapter of his life and entering a new one – as a college student and golfer at Loyola Marymount University. Carungay has been a...
Securing a Bright Future for Bell Gardens Varsity Golf
With a vastly under-resourced program and lack of connections with local courses, the Bell Gardens High School golf team spent the last several years practicing in a classroom, diminishing their ability to compete at the same level as other teams in the Almont League,...
The Reluctant Dreamer
Some are afforded once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Others earn them. A few years back, Phillip Ortiz was diagnosed with a brain tumor and the forecast was not bright. That’s when Make-A-Wish Foundation reached out to the Ortiz family in hopes of bringing some...
On A Mission To Serve
Some of you may remember one of our junior scholars with a big dream. Featured as an SCGA Hero in the Jul./Aug. 2012 issue of FORE magazine, we are thrilled to say Kenny Punyasavatsut is the same go-getter he’s always been, working diligently to achieve his dreams and...
A Familiar Smile Continues to Shine
If you’re involved with SCGA Junior, you’ve seen Shani Waite’s smiling face. You’ve either seen it on scgajunior.org, on a poster, on a brochure or in person at a golf course, where the Mira Costa High School freshmen spends much of her time. For more than five years...
Ol’ Reliable
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr. If we had the ability to clone an ideal volunteer, Giovanni Sandoval’s DNA would be requested for study. His willingness to lend a hand separates himself from...
Challenge Accepted!
One day while practicing, SCGA Junior member Sal Hinojosa was closely watched by an influential member of his community – the Mayor of Pico Rivera. After a minute of observation, Mayor David Armenta become enamored by 15-year-old Sal and his skills on the course, who...
A Coach Who’s Worn A Few Different Hats
Civil Rights activist, ground-breaking speed skater, Olympics-worthy track star, Vietnam Veteran and Wall Street trader are just a few of the bullet points on this man’s resume. Trevor Banton, SCGA Junior’s newest coach in its instruction program, has been around the...