Michigan Golf Journal October 2020

Michigan Golf Journal Amateur Championships PJ Maybank III of Cheboygan and Anci Dy of Traverse City played their best golf of the day on the back nine of the second round at Forest Akers West Golf Course and won the boy’s and girl’s overall titles in the 8th GAM Junior Invitational. Maybank, 15 and the Michigan Junior State Amateur Champion as well as GAM Junior Kickoff Champion earlier this summer, shot 2-under on the back nine in shooting a closing 1-under 71 for a 3-under 141 tournament total to win by two shots. Dy, 17, won her first tournament of the summer in what was the last GAM junior tournament of the summer by also shooting 2-under on the back nine in a final 71 for a 4-over 148 total and a 2-shot victory. Maybank won the three junior GAM events he played in this year. “I’ve had a great, great summer so I’m very pleased,” he said. “I was way more consistent this summer, the most consistent I’ve ever been for an entire season and it definitely helped. This was definitely a good way to end the summer for sure.” Dy, a standout player at Traverse City West High School, said it has been a while since she felt good about her golf game. “I didn’t play my best, but I hung in there really well,” she said. “I haven’t walked off with the championship trophy in a long time, so it was really nice to be back in the winner’s circle.” Champions were also determined in 15-and-under age group divisions . Will Preston of Grand Rapids, who shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday, closed with a 77 for 143. The GAM14-and-under Match Play Champion from earlier this summer won by three shots. Laura Liu of Rochester Hills won her first GAM title shooting a final 71 for 148 and won by three shots. Doing so put an end to the streak of Macomb’s Lauren Timpf who had won five consecutive GAM tournaments in the 15-and-under age group division dating back to this tournament a year ago. Timpf tied for second with Mia Melendez of Ann Arbor. Cheboygan’s PJ Maybank III and Traverse City’s Anci Dy Win GAM Junior Invitational Stories by Greg Johnson