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2004 Awards

ATLANTA – The 2004 Atlanta Junior Golf Association Awards Banquet was held Sunday, October 3rd at Druid Hills Golf Club.

The annual awards banquet honors both the juniors who perform well on the golf course during the most recent golf season and those student athletes who excel in the class room.

This year’s Guest Speaker was Ms. Martha Kirouac, Captain of the victorious 2004 US Curtis Cup team. Using a slide show of pictures from the Curtis Cup in England, Ms. Kirouac emphasized the opportunities out there in the Amateur golf world for not only adults, but juniors also. The oldest player on the 2004 US Curtis Cup team was 22 and the youngest player, Michelle Wie, was 14.

The first awards of the evening were presented to the 2004 Overall Boys and Girls Grand Champions, Hudson Keener and Emily Cross. Next, the 2004 All-Academic and All-AJGA Teams were announced. Below are this year’s winners.

* Player of the Year,  ^ Overall Grand Champion

* Player of the Year,  ^ Overall Grand Champion

This year’s All-Academic Team is listed below:

The AJGA Sportsmanship Award Presented by BellSouth Classic is presented each year to the male and female junior golfers who are believed by the AJGA staff to best exemplify good sportsmanship. This year’s winners are Greg Detwieler and Chelsea Bonk.

The next three awards were presented to the Most Improved player from the Aires Program (a collaborative effort introducing competitive golf to the youth in the minority communities of metro Atlanta) and the Most Improved Male and Female players. Philip Allen was honored as the Most Improved Player in the Aires Program, improving his 2004 stroke average to 78.2 from 2003’s average of 82.8. James White, Jr. was the most improved male, improving his 2003 stroke average of 75.86 to 72.38 in the 2004 season. The Most Improved female award went to Emily Cross whose 2004 stroke average of 77.43 was almost 10 strokes better than her 2003 average of 87. (Note: These figures are based on mathematical calculations that take into consideration the fact that it is more difficult to improve your stroke average from 75 to 72 than it is to improve it from 100 to 90).

The final award of the evening, named for our Presenting Sponsor, Metro Atlanta Automobile Dealer’s Association, was awarded to the player who had earned the most points over the entire season. The winner of this award was in the Advanced Boys 14 Division and earned a perfect score of 200 points for the 2004 Season, winning all six of his regular season events and winning his age Division at the Grand Championship. The 2004 winner of the MAADA Award is James White, Jr.