Written by Wes Gilbertson, The Calgary Sun

The Champions, Jr. & Juv

This article was originally published in the 2016 edition of The Alberta Golfer Magazine. To view the full magazine, click here.

ANDREW HARRISON

JUNIOR & JUVENILE BOYS CHAMPION

The fine folks at Camrose Golf Course could have warned the rest of the field. Then again, nothing was going to stop Andrew Harrison at the 2015 Alberta Junior Boys Championship at Henderson Lake Golf Club in Lethbridge.

“The couple of weeks leading up to that tournament, I’d really been playing great golf,” Harrison recalled. “I had just shot a course record 11-under 60 in Camrose.”

His 72-hole total of 9-under 271 was a baker’s dozen better than any of the other hopefuls could manage. With his triumph at the 2015 Alberta Junior Boys Championship, Harrison also erased the sting from the previous summer, when he was perched atop the leaderboard after three rounds but eventually finished as the runner-up.

“That was my goal for a few years – to win that event,” Harrison said. “I’d been trying since I was about 14, so to be on that trophy now is pretty cool.”

KATY RUTHERFORD
JUNIOR & JUVENILE GIRLS CHAMPION

Six years earlier, in her first tee-off at the Alberta Junior & Juvenile Girls Championship, Katy Rutherford was simply thrilled to post a better score than somebody.

This time, she posted a better score than everybody.

It wasn’t even close, in fact, as Rutherford romped to a 15-shot runaway in the three- day event at Henderson Lake Golf Club in Lethbridge.

“The Alberta provincials was the first tournament that I ever played as a junior,” Rutherford said. “At that time I was really excited because I didn’t finish last.”

Rutherford was born in Calgary and although she now lives in Texas, the talented teen returns every summer to tee it up in the provincial showdown.

She’ll have a tough act to follow in 2016 after carding three straight scores of 1-over 72 in a superb performance at Henderson Lake.

The Champions, Jr. & Juv. 

This article was originally published in the 2016 edition of The Alberta Golfer Magazine. To view the full magazine, click here.