NFJG Awards - POY!

The NFJG Season came to an end with the Annual Awards Banquet. We love having the ceremony at the TPC Sawgrass Club house, but this was fun at Top Golf too.

Alyzabeth Morgan

Eagle Harbor Golf Club

Rising Tour Girls 13-18 Division

Plenty of Top Golf playing after the awards and dinner. We played with the Victoria Green family.

Susan Waite with AA:

Player of the Year for Rising Girls:

Jack's Newsletter:
Sixty-two trophies in all were presented to deserving junior players for their year-long efforts. Division Winners for the “Fall, Spring and Summer Tournament Series” were first, followed by the “Jack Nicklaus Award” for sportsmanship, the “Harry Vardon Award” for scoring average, the “Birdie Leader Award” for most birdies, and the new “TOP HONOR AWARD” for two day Web.com  Junior Player TOUR events.
Finally the evening awards presentation ended with the coveted “PLAYER OF THE YEAR” Award. This year’s POY Awards went to Hayden Zitzewitz, Marisa Cardenas, Campbell Kennedy, Alyzabeth Morgan, Thomas Cush, Phillip Dunham, Emma Wells and Tavi Sport. For full display of award recipients see the attached list.
NFJG Foundation Executive Director Jack Aschenbach kicked off the show with brief opening remarks and then introduced, staff board members and the evening’s guest speaker PGA Professional Duke Butler. Duke wowed the crowd with his life-long stories from his amazing golfing career, both on the PGA TOUR and working for the PGA TOUR. In particular and in great honor, Duke honored Jack Nicklaus with outstanding stories of sportsmanship, etiquette and obeying the rules in golf. Duke told the kids “Be like Jack Nicklaus” and honor your character.
At the beginning of his remarks, Duke who grew up in Texas, raised a trophy he had won in the Houston Junior Open back in 1962. Accompanied with the trophy Duke told the junior players to “Treasure your trophies, they get better with fond memories they provide you. But it is the Friends you make playing junior golf that stay with you for life” and “I hope you become as good as you dream, but make certain you become a better person than player.” An impressive man Duke Butler is and we are so blessed he is part of our team. Many thanks and great job!