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SCGA Junior Golf Foundation Recognized at LAGC Welcome Home Tee-Off
On Monday Feb. 12, the SCGA Junior Golf Foundation attended the Los Angeles Golf Club's (LAGC), Welcome Home party at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. LAGC is the first of six teams in the TGL, a new professional golf league set to launch in 2025 headlined by PGA Tour stars...
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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...