Li wins West Penn Junior
BUTLER – The names of some of Western Pennsylvania’s greatest golfers are on the championship trophy for the West Penn Golf Association’s Junior Championship.
Names like Arnold Palmer, who won it in 1947 and 1948; Frank B. Fuhrer III in 1976 and William Miller, who won it three straight years from 2003 through 2005.
He certainly had an interesting day on Monday. His day started by making par on all nine holes of the front and added three more to start the back. Then he bogeyed three of the next five to shoot 39 for a 74.
Li started his second round on the back and, after starting with a pair of pars, he bogeyed four straight and shot 40. He shot even-par on the front for 75.
“I don’t know why, but I just have a tougher time on that back nine,” he said. “But I was proud of myself because I worked hard to keep looking at the next shot and forgot about the shots I had already hit. The thing about golf is you show up at the golf course with whatever you have that day. And you have to make that fit what’s happening that day. You can’t be fixing something during the round.”
There were no players who finished under par on Monday at Butler. As a matter of fact, there were only 38 players who were able to post rounds in the 70s.
The top five players and ties qualify for the WPGA’s C.R. Miller Tournament, a match play event.