North Team surges to lead at Jackie Burke Cup
DALLAS, Texas — After 36 holes of play on Saturday,
the North Team
leads the South Team 13 points to 11 points at the
2015 Jackie Burke
Cup at Brook Hollow Golf Club, needing only 11 points
to retain the
cup.
During the morning Four-Ball matches, Cole Hammer
and Mason Nome
of Houston struck first for the South Team, winning the
first match of
the day 2&1 over Ryan Grider of Lewisville and
Jackson Markham of
Westlake after a birdie from Nome on the 17th hole to
clinch.
The North Team didn’t stay down for long however as
they went on to
win the following two matches, both on the final hole.
The South pairing of Nicholas Duggan and Levi Valadez
of San Antonio
took the morning spotlight with a landslide victory over
Tommy Boone
of Richardson and Jackson Howes of McKinney,
finishing on the 16th
hole winning 4 & 2.
With the teams tied heading into the second round, it
was the North
Team that would takeover in the afternoon Foursomes.
Captained by Dallas native, and Texas A&M Senior
Callie Scheffler, the
North Team got off to a hot start in the afternoon and
utterly
dominated their first two matches. Grider and
Markham were paired
together once more against the Houston duo of
Hammer and Nome,
but this time the story was different. Losing only one
hole, the North
pairing took over the Foursome match early, winning
holes 5-8, and
closing out the match on the 13th hole to win 6 & 5.
Immediately following the Grider/Markham rout, the
brothers Coody
(Parker and Pierceson) from Plano each recorded their
second win on
the day for the North Team with an impressive victory
over Cedar
Park‘s Thomas Critch and Pearland’s Pryce Beshoory,
ending the match
on the 14th hole to win 5 & 4.
The South Team, captained by University of Texas
Junior and Austin
Native Julia Beck, managed to make a late afternoon
charge by
winning their final two matches to keep them in the
hunt of the Cup.
The ladies of Austin, Kaylee Vesely and Sadie
Engelmann, proved to be
the most dependable for the South Team, claiming
victories in both of
their rounds together and heading into the final day
without a loss.
The North Team heads into the final round with a two-
point lead,
needing only 11 more to retain the Cup. The North
Team trails the
overall record 7-3 and has never won the cup in back-
to-back years.
First conducted in 2005, the Jackie Burke Cup Matches
are modeled
after the Ryder Cup and features 12 players from each
region
competing in three separate formats: Four-Ball,
Foursomes (alternate
shot), and Singles. Each match is worth two points,
allowing for 48
total points available.
Named after one of the game’s all-time greats, the
Jackie Burke Cup
Matches are a way of honoring the Lone Star legend
that is an inductee
in both the Texas and World Golf Hall of Fames and
one of the co-
founders of Champions Golf Club in Houston.
Players earned their way on to their respective team
by virtue of their
performance throughout the year on the LJT and the
Texas Junior Golf
Alliance. Players are selected based on the Legends
Junior Tour’s
College Golf Camps of America Points List following the
Texas Cup
Invitational.