The Jacksonville Area Golf Association has announced its 2024 schedule of sponsored, sponsored and supported events, with 10 tournaments to be held at nine courses in Duval, St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties.
The First Coast Amateur will begin at Amelia National from January 13th to 15th of this year.
Tournaments run by JAGA include the Spring Fourball (March 25th at Marsh Landing), the Senior Amateur (April 7th-9th at Deerwood), and the St. Johns County Fourbowl (May 4th at Deerwood). 5th, St. John’s Golf). Club), Jacksonville Amateur (July 18-20, Jacksonville Golf and Country Club), Fall Four Ball (October 28, Plantation at Ponte Vedra), Family Championship (December 21, Jacksonville Beach Golf Club).
Other events:
Two tournaments, the JAGA/Northern Branch Team Championship and the JAGA Scholarship Trust Classic, are not yet scheduled. Both he will be held in November, dates to be announced at a later date.
The first Coast Celebration of Golf Banquet will be held on February 21st at Timucuana Country Club.
First Coast Amateur comes full circle
The First Coast Amateur debuted at Amelia National in 2017. Brandon Mancheno, the Times Union’s High School Player of the Year, won on the road and played at Auburn University and the University of North Florida.
Eight years later, the tournament returns to Amelia National, a course designed by Tom Fazio.
This tournament is presented by JAGA and sponsored by the City of Jacksonville Sports and Entertainment Department.
The field of 96 players includes more than 40 universities from 22 states and 13 countries. 30 of them are ranked in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
Brock Healy, who plays for the University of South Florida, is the defending champion.
Saying goodbye to the “Chief”
Roger Nichols was as avid a golfer as they come.
Mr. Nichols, who died Dec. 14 at the age of 86, won seven club championships, was over the age more than 200 times and held memberships in four First Coast clubs.
He was also known as the “commissioner” of the Munchkins, a group of TPC Sawgrass members (about half of them former PGA Tour staff) who played several times a week. Nichols was a charter member of TPC Sawgrass, Deerwood, Ponte Vedra’s Plantation, and Sawgrass Country Club.
Nichols won the Sawgrass Club Championship four times and TPC Sawgrass three times. He also volunteered and played in many local charity tournaments.
Nichols is originally from Illinois and moved to Jacksonville in 1972. He was a Westinghouse executive. He and his wife Louise have his three children and were married for 65 years.
Chloe Schiavone posts solo 2nd place
Bolles graduate and Notre Dame junior Chloe Schiavone shot a 69 in the final round at Sun and Lake Golf and Country Club in Sebring to edge Sophia Schiavone at the Citrus Golf Trail Ladies Invitational. He finished in second place behind Sherif Esakari.
Esakari finished at 6-under 282 in the tournament formerly known as the Harder Hall Invitational. Schiavone’s final round was her best score of the 72-hole tournament.