{"id":39702,"date":"2012-07-06T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=39702"},"modified":"2012-07-06T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:12:40","slug":"the-1st-tournaments-in-the-2-junior-series-presented-by-arion-bank-may-19th-and-20th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/the-1st-tournaments-in-the-2-junior-series-presented-by-arion-bank-may-19th-and-20th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1st tournaments in the 2 Icelandic Junior Series presented by Arion bank – May 19th and 20th 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two main Junior Series in Iceland and both of them are sponsored by Arion bank and all 6 tournaments of the Series are organized by the Icelandic Golf \u00a0Association. The Junior Series comprise of 6 tournaments 2 of them being the Icelandic Junior Championship in Stroke Play the other the Icelandic Junior Championship in Match Play.<\/p>\n

The teenagers are devided into groups according to gender and age. There are 3 age groups 14 yr old and younger; 15-16 yr. old and 17-18 yr old, both for \u00a0boys and girls. \u00a0There are two Junior Series, the main Junior Series sponsored by Arion bank and the Challenge Tour (Icelandic: \u00c1skorendam\u00f3tar\u00f6\u00f0in), a series for kids that have a higher handicap then the ones on the main Junior Series or want to garner some experience before playing on the main series, due to age or other reasons.<\/p>\n

The kids on the Challenge Tour only play a round of 18 holes, whereas the kids on the main Junior Series sponsored by Arion bank play 36 holes i.e. 18 holes over a stretch of two days.<\/p>\n

The first tournament in the Challenge Tour this year was held May 19th at the Nes Golf Club by Reykjav\u00edk, which has a rather flat and pleasant 9 hole golfcourse. \u00a0The course is well known in Iceland for its rich birdlife. There were 107 participants and the weather was really delightful and the kids enjoyed themselves, which is so important at that stage in their developement and career.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short the winners of the first Challenge Tour tournament were:<\/p>\n

El\u00edsabet \u00c1g\u00fastsd\u00f3ttir, GKG (girls 14 yrs and younger)<\/p>\n

Krist\u00f3fer Karl Karlsson, GKJ (boys 14 yrs and younger)<\/p>\n

Alexandra Eir Gr\u00e9tarsd\u00f3ttir , GOS(girls 15-16 yrs old)<\/p>\n

Einar Sn\u00e6r J\u00f6kulsson, GR \u00a0(boys 15-16 yrs old)<\/p>\n

No participants were in the agegroup 17-18 yr old girls.<\/p>\n

J\u00f6kull Schi\u00f6th, GKG (boys 17-18 yrs old).<\/p>\n

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Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson, GK. Photo: Golf 1<\/p><\/div>\n

The first round of the 1st tournament of the Junior Series sponsored by Arion bank was held that same day (May 19th 2012) at Gar\u00f0av\u00f6llur, i.e. the Garden golfcourse at Golf Club Leynir in Akranes and the 2nd the following day, May 20th. \u00a0As usual some new talents emerged this year: Eva Karen Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, GR and Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson, GK. \u00a0The Garden course in Akranes is a beautiful, rather flat 18 hole par-72 golfcourse. \u00a0Among some of its most memorable holes is the par-3 3rd hole (named Skr\u00fa\u00f0ur or Beauty in Icelandic). The participants in this 1st tournament of the Junior Series sponsored by Arion bank were 140 and the winners were:<\/p>\n

Eva Karen Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, GR (girls 14 yrs and younger)<\/p>\n

Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson, GK (boys 14 yrs and younger)<\/p>\n

Gunnhildur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, GKG (girls 15-16 yrs old)<\/p>\n

G\u00edsli Sveinbergsson, GK (boys 15-16 yrs old)<\/p>\n

Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 Bj\u00f6rgvinsd\u00f3ttir, GK (girls 17-18 yrs old)<\/p>\n

Bjarki P\u00e9tursson, GB (boys 17-18 yrs old).<\/p>\n

Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 Bj\u00f6rgvinsd\u00f3ttir, GK, had the best score, an accumulated score of 140 strokes (74 66) and she had the best round of her career a 6 under par, round of 66!!! Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson, who competed in the youngest age group \u00a0of 14 yr. and younger boys had the 2nd lowest accumulated score of 142 (72 70), which is excellent and included a round of 2 under par!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two main Junior Series in Iceland and both of them are sponsored by Arion bank and all 6 tournaments of the Series are organized by the Icelandic Golf \u00a0Association. The Junior Series comprise of 6 tournaments 2 of them being the Icelandic Junior Championship in Stroke Play the other the Icelandic Junior Championship in Match Play. The teenagers are devided into groups according to gender and age. There are 3 age groups 14 yr old and younger; 15-16 yr. old and 17-18 yr old, both for \u00a0boys and girls. \u00a0There are two Junior Series, the main Junior Series sponsored by Arion bank and the Challenge Tour (Icelandic: \u00c1skorendam\u00f3tar\u00f6\u00f0in), Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1310,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}