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NOVA SCOTIA GOLF ASSOCIATION
JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
1939: 1947-2007
64TH CHAMPION 2008
50TH TEAM SELECTION 2008
EDEN
GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB
JULY 14-17, 2008
1939
- David Doig, Gorsebrook, Halifax, wins first Junior title.
Played as part of the Nova Scotia Amateur.
1947
Peter Doig, Ashburn, wins
second Junior. First
brother combination to win the title.
1950
Robert Lugs Rae, Abercrombie becomes first golfer to win back to
back Junior titles.
1952
Lea Windsor, Ashburn, wins Nova Scotia, Maritime and Canadian Junior
titles.
1953
First separate Junior
championship played at Bluenose Golf Club, Lunenburg.
Match play won by Pau
Trigger Tregunno, Ashburn.
1955
Stroke play introduced.
Won by Alan Doane, Ashburn.
1959
First Junior team
selected at Abercrombie Golf & Country Club, New Glasgow.
Terry Burns, Chester;
Don Green, Ashburn (Champion); Harold Bus Ogden,
Amherst; Brian Matheson, Ken-Wo.
The team
finished 4th at the Canadian Junior.
1971
John T. MacLeod, Jr.,
Abercrombie becomes the first Junior to win the NS Amateur.
The Amateur was
played at Paragon.
1972
Dean Woodman, Avon Valley,
aged 13 scores the first ever ace at the Junior competition, Aced
#6.
Truro, 145 yards.
1973
Nick Boyd, Ken-Wo,
second round at Paragon, shot 71(-1), the first ever sub-par round
posted in competition.
1976
- David Delaunt,
Ashburn, becomes the first left handed golfer to capture the Junior
title. The event was
played at Ken-Wo.
1980
Gordie Smith,
Brightwood, wins Junior.
His father, Lorne won the same title in 1948.
The only father and son to win Junior title.
(They also won Amateur titles)
1981
Gordie Smith,
Brightwood, playing at Lingan, becomes the youngest golfer to
capture the NS Amateur. He
would go on to win the NS Junior at Abercrombie, becoming the only
individual to capture both titles ]
in the same year.
1981
Kevin Dugas, Clare, wins Canadian Junior Golf Championship.
1982
Murray and Norman McCrossin, Brightwood, become first brother
combination to make the team.
1987
Aaron Callaghan, Abercrombie wins Junior title.
Along with his brother, Dale (1983), they become the second
brother combination to win the Junior Championship.
1991
Best ever showing by a
Nova Scotia Junior team.
Three way tie for first.
Lost in play-off and were declared runner-up.
Fourth team to finish second.
1999
Daniel Morley, Eden,
becomes only golfer to win three consecutive Junior titles.
2007
Andrew Wallace, Brightwood, becomes the eighth golfer to win back
to back Junior titles.
2007
James & Sam Holland, Ken-Wo become the second brother combination
to qualify for the same NS Junior team.
2008
The first time Eden
has hosted the Nova Scotia Junior Championships.
General:
Fifty (50) individuals from twenty-one (21) clubs have won the
Junior title.
Brightwood has produced the most Junior Champions - - - thirteen
(13)
Thirty (30) Clubs have produced the one hundred and forty (140)
golfers who have filled the one hundred and ninety six (196) team
positions between 1959-2007.
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