Summer golf camp comes to season end

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by Program Coordinator Nick Vavoudis

Skyline Golf Course ended their summer golf camp on August 17 as the kids get ready for fall sports sponsored by the local schools.

We had a great turnout this summer. Skyline Golf Camp lasted 23 days and taught 135 lessons to some 20 different kids.

The season culminated with the Mint Valley Junior City Championship where six kids from Cathlamet competed. The event lasted four days with a flighted match play bracket event the final two days. Five of the six Wahkiakum kids won on the last day, winning four first place trophies, a third place medal and a fourth place medal.

Mule freshman Tyler St. Onge, the only local player in the long course event, shot a personal best 41 on the front nine of his championship match and captured the third flight championship trophy 8 and 7, which means he had a eight hole lead with seven holes to play.

In the Par Three event, Nick St. Onge, Tyler's younger brother and fourth grader, won both his matches in dramatic fashion. In the semi-final he parred the first extra hole in sudden death to advance, and in the finals, he birdied the first extra hole to capture the first place trophy in the second flight.

Also winning first place trophies were seventh grader Wyatt Bruntmeyer (fouth flight par 3 event) and Miranda Lomax (third flight par three event). First year golfer and Freshman Heidi Bruntmeyer won a third place medal over her younger brother, fifth grader Dalton Bruntmeyer who finished fourth.