Texas golf organizations form junior alliance
HOUSTON — The state's top four golf organizations have formed an alliance aimed at creating better opportunities and ease expenses for junior golfers and their families.
The Texas Junior Golf Alliance is a joint venture put together by the Texas Golf Association, the Northern and Southern Texas Sections of the PGA of America and the Houston Golf Association.
The four organizations collectively sponsor more than 500 tournaments a year for more than 6,000 junior boys and girls. The goal of the alliance is to simplify the qualifying process for the top-tier Legends Junior Tour's high-profile events through a performance-based points system.
Each of the four organizations will offer a select number of Texas Junior Golf Alliance Points Tournaments in their respective 2012 schedule. A total of 45 junior events will offer points.
Competitors may also accumulate points in the seven open events and one invitational operated in Texas by the national American Junior Golf Association. Juniors — players between ...
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