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Gallery Guide: 71st U.S. Girls' Junior Championship

July 22-27, 2019 | SentryWorld | Stevens Point, Wis.

By Brian Weis

The 71st U.S. Girls' Junior Championship will be contested July 22-27 at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, Wis. The field will consist of 156 of the best female players under the age of 19, with the champion receiving an exemption into the 2020 U.S. Women's Open Championship at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas.

Schedule of Play
Practice rounds will take place July 20-21, and the championship schedule is as follows:

July 22 (Monday): First round, stroke play
July 23 (Tuesday): Second round, stroke play, field reduced to 64 players for match play
July 24 (Wednesday): Round of 64, match play
July 25 (Thursday): Round of 32/Round of 16, match play
July 26 (Friday): Quarterfinals/Semifinals, match play
July 27 (Saturday): 36-hole championship final, match play

Television Schedule

The 2019 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship will receive at least four hours of live network coverage. FS1 will air semifinal matches on Friday. Coverage of Saturday's championship match will begin at 1 p.m. CDT.

July 26
Channel FS1
Semifinal matches, 1-3 p.m. CDT

July 27
Channel FS1
Championship match, 1-3 p.m. CDT

Admission
Admission is free. Tickets are not required for this USGA championship and spectators are encouraged to attend.

Parking
Parking is available at the golf course. Overflow parking along both North Point Drive and North Michigan Road. Shuttles will be available.

Concessions and Proshop
Food and concessions will be available at the Turn Shack, PJ"s restaurant in clubhouse will e open to the public. The Atrium will be serving a championship dining experience.

The proshop will be open to the public for Sentryworld and US Girls' Junior Championship merchandise=se.

Golfers To Watch

Jo Baranczyk, 16, of Green Bay, Wis., is the only player in the field hailing from Wisconsin. Baranczyk, a rising junior at Bay Port High School, won the WIAA Division 1 state girls golf championship last fall and will be playing in her first USGA championship. Her brother, Jed, plays golf at North Dakota State and competed in the 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur. Jed caddied for Jo during her qualifying round at Mascoutin Golf Club in Berlin, Wis.

Kynadie Adams, 15, of Gallatin, Tenn. will be playing in her first U.S. Girls' Junior championship. Most recently, Adams partnered with Rachel Kuehn in the 2019 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship where the duo advanced to the Round of 32 after reaching the Round of 16 in 2018. Adams, a two-time Drive, Chip & Putt national finalist, also played in the 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur. Her father, Adrian, played college golf at Tennessee State University, where he was teammates with Sean Foley, Adams' swing coach and the instructor for 2013 U.S. Open champion Justin Rose.

Melena Barrientos, 16, of Plano, Texas, reached the Round of 16 in the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball championship earlier this year after reaching the Round of 32 in 2018. Barrientos is playing in her third USGA championship. She is active on the junior golf circuit, participating in U.S. Kids Golf, Texas Legends Junior Tour and American Junior Golf Association tournaments.

Lauren Beaudreau, 18, of Lemont, Ill., won the Illinois High School state golf tournament last October as a senior at Benet Academy.. Beaudreau, who will play for Notre Dame this fall, is competing in her fourth U.S. Girls' Junior championship, with her best finish coming in 2017 when she reached to the Round of 64. Earlier this year, she played in the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball and recently qualified for her second U.S. Women's Amateur, which will take place Aug. 5-11 at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss. The 2016 North & South Girls' Junior champion also loves to travel and has visited over 20 countries.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.