But this year was impressive in
its own right, as the 14-year- old sophomore at Pioneer High finished the season with 3,955 points, nearly doubling the total of runner-up Yealimi Noh of Concord (2,307). In 2014, Iqbal piled up 4,003 points en route to winning her first title. Iqbal and Casie Cathrea are
the only females to win back-to- back Player of the Year honors. Cathrea’s record three Player of the Year titles came in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Iqbal will have a chance to capture three in a row this season, and she can also catch Cathrea’s all-time wins record. Iqbal’s four Junior Tour wins
brought her career total to 14, which is four behind Cathrea. “I’m proud. The JTNC means a lot to me. It’s helped me grow as a player and it’s fun,” Iqbal said. “I’m hoping to break some records.” During the season, Iqbal
racked up JTNC wins at the Fall Series I, Spring Series VII, Spring Series VIII and Summer Series I Championships. She nearly matched her own JTNC record of four straight wins, but settled for 12th at the Summer Series II Championship. Iqbal also captured this year’s
CIF State High School champion as well, and won the NCGA Junior Championship at Spyglass Hill. She also finished second at two other JTNC events, and lost a playoff at the NCGA/CIF Northern California High School Championships, preventing her from completing an incredible Northern California/State High School Championship sweep. “I didn’t play very well early in the season because I was really busy with school stuff,” Iqbal said. “In the spring I was able to get back into a groove.”
Challenge Cup
North or South: Who has the best juniors? We’re about to find out. The inaugural Challenge Cup will feature 12
JTNC players taking on 12 players from the Southern California Junior Tour in a Ryder Cup-like format from Dec. 21-23 at Poppy Hills. The JTNC squad will be represented by the
top six boys and top three girls in the points stand- ings following the Fall Series IX Championship (Oct. 24-25 at Rancho Murieta). A JTNC committee will also choose two boys and one girl to complete the team.
2014-15 Final Standings RANK NAME
BOYS CITY
1 2 3 4 5 6
GIRLS
RANK NAME 1 2 3 4 5 6
CITY
Sabrina Iqbal Yealimi Noh Yoonhee Kim Kathleen Scavo
San Jose Concord
POINTS 3,955 2,307
San Ramon 2,300 Benicia
2,060
Amanjoty Sangha San Mateo 1,684 Quynn Duong
San Jose 1,437
The top six boys and girls were invited to play with the pros in a pro-am before the PGA Tour’s season-opening
Frys.com Open at Silverado the first week of October.
Justin Suh Noah Woolsey San Jose
Thomas Hutchison San Jose Eddy Lai
San Jose
Joshua McCarthy Danville Brad Sparrer
Hollister
POINTS 2,260 1,755 1,657
Pleasanton 1,651 1,604 1,315
Junior Tour Member Wins Junior-Pro Portion of First Tee Open
For the third time in the last five years, a Junior Tour of Northern California member won the junior-pro portion of the Nature Valley First Tee Open. Jack Avrit teamed up with Mark O’Meara to shoot a three-round better-ball total of 20 under to win by a stroke. All-time JTNC wins leader Casie Cathrea captured the title in 2011, and Harvard’s Michelle Xie was victorious in 2013. “We wouldn’t have won if he didn’t play the way he played,” said O’Meara of Arroyo Grande’s Avrit, who helped the team out 16 shots over three days. For the week, 14 JTNC players competed with six making the cut: Avrit, David Laskin (T-6), Daniel Conolly (T-8), Bibilani Liu (T-10), Ardin Lo (T-13) and Drake Mendenhall (T-20). There were also 22 Youth on Course kids who competed.
The Junior Tour of Northern California is sponsored by Capital Insurance Group. FALL 2015 /
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