Alex Francois of Burnaby placed ninth in a strong field at the B.C. juvenile boys’ golf championships last week.
Francois finished tied with Mac Gourdine of Coldstream, following a three-round, two-over-par 218 at the Royalwood Golf Course in Chilliwack on Aug. 28.
The Moscrop Secondary teen shot rounds of 72, 72, 74 to finish eight shots back of Shaughnessy clubmate Diego San Pedro, who won a one-hole playoff over Jaewook Lee of Langley to win the juvenile boys’ title.
San Pedro, who shot a four-under-par 68 in the final round of the 54-hole provincial tournament, and Lee both finished with identical six-under 210 scores.
First-round leader A.J. Ewart of Coquitlam, who fired a six-under 66 on opening day, ballooned to a 77 in the second round before finishing at 211 following a 68 on the final 18 holes. Roy Kang of North Vancouver was fourth at 212.
Kang, San Pedro, Francois and Surrey’s Sy Lovan shared in the win for the zone team competition with a combined 428 score, edging zone 5 by three strokes.
Francois and Kang placed sixth in the best ball event, shooting a combined 15-under-par to finish six shots shy of eventual winners Lee and Gavin Ciulla of Surrey.
Edward Chen of Burnaby finished three rounds at 228.
In the juvenile girls’ competition, Sumie Francois finished in sixth place with a three-round 228 score, 21 shots back of Nanaimo’s Shirin Anjarwalla, who held off a late third-round charge from last year’s junior girls’ champion Naomi Ko to win by a single stroke over the Victoria golfer.
Anjarwalla, 14, led the field from the opening day with a five-under 68 and was sitting at 11 under par heading into the final 18 holes.
