By DEBRA BAMBROOK
TWELVE-year-old Cassie Porter from Peregian Springs Golf Club will be representing Australia at the 2015 Amateur Athletic Union Veritas Junior Olympic Games Golf Championship to be held in the US in July.
Cassie won the right to represent her country by winning her age division of the 2015 Australian Junior Age Division Golf Championship held in Yepoon last week with excellent rounds of 75, 83 and 78.
The Australian team going to the junior championship in the US consists of the Australian boy and girl golfers who won their age divisions at the Yepoon event.
Cassie has risen up through the ranks of the Peregian Springs Golf Club’s Junior Development Program and was the recipient of the club’s junior sponsorship award in 2014 which paid for her golf lessons and membership. Cassie has had an outstanding year, winning a number of junior golf events at the club and around the state.
The Junior Olympic Games Golf Championship is being played at Tustin Ranch Golf Club in Orange County and Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena, California. The opening ceremony will be held at the LA Angels Baseball Stadium and the medal ceremony will be held at Downtown Disney, both in Anaheim. The junior golfers will have time to have fun away from the golf course while they are there.
Cassie is excited about her next adventure.
“It has been my dream to play golf in the US,” she said.
“I can’t wait.”
