TGA assistant coaches, former students and current students have been excelling in major tournaments. Here are the highlights:
State high school boys qualifiers — Charlie Schuetze and Alex Blyth will be heading to the Division I state tournament with their Grosse Pointe South team, while Adam Burghardt and Cam Chrisman will be representing Warren DeLaSalle. Other TGA qualifers in Division I were Max White (Bloomfield Hills) and Sam Yono (Birmingham Brother Rice). Although they didn’t quite qualify for states, three individuals should be commended for outstanding scores — Joshua Tranzow (76, Dakota), Max O’Rourke (77, Walled Lake Northern) and Will Smalley (79, Troy).
Scott Hanna of Country Day qualified as an individual with a 79 in Division 2. In Division 4, Colin Degnore shot 76 and Spencer Lukas shot 80 to lead University Liggett to the state finals.
Michigan Open qualifiers — Jackson Jones of Kalamazoo College and Scott Sparks of Detroit Mercy both shot 71s at Forest Lake Country Club to qualify for the Michigan Open June 10-13 at The Bear in Traverse City. Zach Sudinsky of Eastern Michigan University was medalist with a 71 in his qualifer at Lyon Oaks.
Spring girls tournaments — Ariel Chang won a Top 50 Junior Tour event at Twin Lakes with a 75. Fellow TGA assistant coaches Carly Ortwine and Sophia Ubaydi finished second and third.
Lauren Timpf won the 13-15 division of a Meijer-Callaway Tour event at Davison Country Club with an 83.
Drive, Chip and Putt — Most of the local qualifiers are later in the summer, but the first Michigan event was May 18 at Fox Hills in Plymouth, and five TGA students advanced to subregionals — Abigail Schlotterer (girls 7-9), Sanya Singhal (girls 12-13), Alexander DuPont (boys 7-9), Aiden Brown (boys 12-13) and Ryan O’Rourke (boys 14-15). Good luck to these golfers in the subregionals, and to the many TGA students participating in later local qualifiers.
