Continuing her summer of successes on the junior golf circuit,   Leadbetter student So Young Hwang of South Korea captured the Girls 15-18 Division title Sunday at the Kickoff at Waldorf Astoria tournament. The event marked the official start of the IMG Leadbetter Junior Golf Tour, which will make two [...]

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IMG Leadbetter golfer, Jaclyn Sweeney, 21, of Andover, Mass., shot a 36-hole total of 6-under-par 138 to share medalist honors, with Rachel Rohanna and Erynne Lee, Tuesday at the 2010 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at the par-72, 6,559-yard Charlotte Country Club.
Jaclyn, who graduated from the Pendleton School in 2008, continues to work with Leadbetter Director [...]

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The dream summer for IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy students Doris Chen and Ginger Howard continued this weekend when the two golfers officially earned spots on the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team.
Chen, currently competing in the U.S. Women’s Amateur, grabbed a spot by winning the grueling stroke/match play U.S. Girls’ Junior last month. Howard received her [...]

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Ginger Howard traveled to the Sycamore Hills Golf Club this past week to compete in the 35th Junior PGA Championships presented by Under Armour!
Ginger entered the final round two shots behind the overnight leader, Kyle Roig, of Puerto Rico.  However, Ginger and Cassy Isagawa both fired 3-under par 69’s on day three to take the [...]

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Haoyuan “Steven” Lu and Jordan Lippetz were in different parts of the country this week, but each walked away with a Top 3 finish in an AJGA event.
Steven traveled to the AJGA Randy Wise Junior Open which was held at the Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc, Mich.  The field featured 75 [...]

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Full Timer, Zheng “James” Liang of China, landed his first win yesterday after a rained out final round at the AJGA Junior at River Creek Club in Leesburg, VA. 
James opened the event by shooting a 66 on Tuesday (which also happened to be his 17th birthday) to take the first round lead.  His round [...]

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It unexpectedly came down to a 6-foot putt on the 72nd hole, but Taiwan native and IMG Leadbetter Golf Academy alum Yani Tseng this past weekend earned her 2nd major title of 2010 at the RICOH Women’s British Open.
The 21-year-old Tseng’s 11-under 277 topped Katherine Hull by one shot. With Tseng’s win at the Kraft [...]

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Full Time golfer, Jordan Lippetz, won the AJGA Lockton Kansas City Junior last week!
The AJGA Lockton Kansas City Junior was a 54-hole stroke play tournament contested at the Kansas City Country Club in Mission Hills, Kansas. The tournament field featured 99 boys and girls ages 12-18 from 16 states and Thailand. The Girls Division played [...]

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Seiji Liu helps the West win!

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Posted: Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Four IMG golfers teed it up last week, some representing the East and one for the West in the 21st Canon Cup matches which where contested at the Old Sandwich Golf Club in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Ginger Howard, Victoria Tanco and Ashlyn Ramsey all competed for the East, while Seiji Liu represented the West!
The West improved to [...]

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Mia Piccio, an IMG alum and Pendleton Graduate, beat Argentina’s Agostina Parmigiana 3 & 2 to win the 2010 Women’s Trans National this past week in Lincoln, Nebraska.
This year’s event was played at The Country Club of Lincoln.
Mia, now a sophomore at the University of Florida, was the No. 1 seed in the match play [...]

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