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PHOTO BY RICK WALTER

WINNING FORM. John Jordan after hitting a shot onto the 9th green at the Tacoma City Junior tournament Aug. 13.

Lacey’s Jordan wins Tacoma City Junior Golf

By Rick Walter

John Jordan, who struck fast with an opening round of 67, never lost ground at the H.M. Montgomery Tacoma City Junior Championship (Aug. 11-13) at Allenmore Golf Course and won the title by five shots over James Van Alstine.

Low rounds are not uncommon for Jordan who shot the low 18-hole score of the 2008 state 3A golf tournament with a 68.

Jordan, from Timberline High School in Lacey, where he is a high-school teammate of 2008 U.S. Junior Amateur champion Cameron Peck, had rounds of 67, 71 and 79.

Jordan’s high-school team was fourth in the state 3A boys tournament. In fact, Jordan matched the score of Peck with a 146. Peck went on to win the U.S. Junior by the largest margin since it went to a 36-hole format.

Jordan wouldn’t come right out and say he expected to win this tournament, but his junior season at Lacy certainly made him a favorite.

“I’ve been playing a lot with Cameron, who is the number-one junior in the country, and that’s playing at a pretty high level, so, you know, there is reason to be confident,” he said just before the final round.

The youngest player in the tournament, Drake Brown, 12, of Spanaway shot a personal-best round of par 71. Besides being a 20-shot improvement over the last time Brown played competitive golf at Washington State Golf Association event, it knocked his sister, Jackie, 17, out of the final round.

“He was so excited,” she said. “After he got beat a few weeks ago, he has been practicing every day, eight or 10 hours a day.”

After his 71, Drake said, “it was a great relief.”

Nathan Harris of Bellarmine Prep finished in third place with rounds of 74, 78 and 72.

The junior tournament has deep roots at Allenmore, going back to when the Tacoma Golf Association was founded in 1931. It initiated junior events and was the 1970s when the Pacific Northwest Golf Association and the Washington State Golf Association emerged with prestigious competitons of their own. The tournament is named after H.M. Montgomery who has long supported the junior golf program.

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