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Feb. 27—One more change is coming to this year’s Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.
The world’s best junior golfers return to Sage Valley Golf Club in three weeks, and this year a ticket will be required to see the action.
A tournament spokesperson confirmed this week that a limited number of tickets will be available for this year’s Junior Invitational, the 14th year of the boys’ championship and fourth for the girls.
Tickets can be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/mudfduv9 and are available for $25 per day, or for $90 for a full tournament pass that includes all four days of competition. Off-site parking will be free, as will the shuttle service from there to the course.
That’s the other big change to this year’s Junior Invitational, which is expanding from a three-day, 54-hole event to a four-day, 72-hole championship.
The full field of 36 boys and 24 girls representing 21 countries will be released soon, but a few players have been confirmed to be in the field. That includes defending champions Giovani Binaghi, the 12th-ranked player in the American Junior Golf Association’s boys’ rankings, and Asterisk Talley, who sits atop the AJGA girls’ rankings and has won three consecutive prestigious events on that circuit.
It also includes Charlie Woods, son of 15-time major champion and five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods, and Kai Trump, granddaughter of President Donald Trump.
Both champions won in record fashion last year. Binaghi shot a bogey-free 8-under 64, the lowest final round by an eventual champion in tournament history, to win the boys’ title by two. Talley, who turned 15 a month earlier, set a new low 54-hole girls’ tournament score by finishing at 9-under 207 on her way to a six-shot victory.