BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — Woodstock’s Alexandra Young fired the second-lowest round on Tuesday, July 16, to finish fourth in a Connecticut Regional Girls qualifier for the Notah Begay III Junior National Golf Championship at Gillette Ridge Golf Club in Bloomfield, Conn.

Young’s 10-over-par 82 wasn’t enough to make up ground from Monday’s first round to earn the one spot available in the 36-hole qualifier that went to Pound Ridge’s Faith Petrino.

Young has switched golf teachers recently and it was also the first rounds she had played with a new set of irons.

Young won the 36-hole Hurricane Junior Golf Tour’s Hartford Connecticut Junior Open for girls 14-18 that concluded on Sunday, July 7.

The Woodstock resident, who will be a junior at Onteora High this fall, fired rounds of 82 and 75 for a two-round total of 19-over-par 157 to capture the junior event.

Young is a three-time New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) qualifier and the 2023 Wiltwyck Golf Club women’s champion.

She also won the inaugural Ulster County Junior Girls Golf Championship in 2023. Young bested the field with an 11-over-par 83 at Green Acres Golf Course in Kingston.

Originally Published: July 18, 2024 at 5:55 p.m.