MIDLOTHIAN –– Reigning VSGA Junior Match Play champion Dylan Jensen of Ridgeway headlines a group of eight junior golfers who will represent Virginia against their West Virginia and Maryland counterparts at the 2nd Mid-Atlantic Junior Invitational at The Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, W.Va., on Saturday-Sunday, July 24-25.

In the two-day stroke play event, eight-player junior teams representing Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland will compete in interstate team competition, with the best six scores counted toward each team’s aggregate to determine the event’s champion.

Jensen is joined on the team by his longtime friend Jack Adkins (Martinsville), his former Carlisle School teammate and fellow Chatmoss Country Club member; they’ve attended the same school since preschool. Western Virginians Alex Taylor (Roanoke), a finalist at the VSGA Junior Match, and Jake Mondy of Blacksburg (pictured left), who reached the second round of match play at the VSGA State Am, were also selected to the squad.

 
Hampton Roads-area golfers and first cousins Bryce Cope and Alex Lloyd of Virginia Beach also comprise the Virginia team; both were semifinalists at the VSGA Junior Match. (The maiden name of their mothers, Virginia and Deanna, is Stevens and Cope and Lloyd were born three months apart.)

 
Fincastle’s Korey Watts, a second-place finisher at the Virginia High School League Group A Golf Championship, and northern Virginian Maclain Huge (Lovettsville) complete the squad. 

 
At 15, Watts is the youngest player on the team. Lloyd and Huge are 16; Jensen, Mondy and Taylor are 17; Adkins is 18 years old.

At last year’s debut event conducted at Kingsmill Resort & Spa’s Plantation Course, Maryland team members delivered four rounds of 73 or better in final round action to post a wire-to-wire win. Maryland shot 8-over-par 434 in final day action (871, +13). Virginia posted a last day aggregate of 444 and finished in second place (890). West Virginia was third (921).

Opened in 1995, Pete Dye Golf Club is ranked No. 57 in Golf Digest’s listing of America’s “100 Greatest Courses,” 2009-10 and is listed No. 4 in Golfweek’s “Best Modern Courses (1960-present). The course features remnants of coal mining activity, including exposed, strip mined high walls, a rotary car tipple, coal-laden mine cars, a cart path through a once deep mine, and waterfalls that originate from deep mining activity of days passed, according to the club’s Web site.

The golf course occupies 250 acres, nearly twice the land utilized for the average golf course design. With wide fairways and landing areas, unobstructed green approaches, and a safe route on every hole, there are also a host of risk-reward options. The layout welcomed the 2009 Virginia-West Virginia Team Matches.

Starting times take place from 8-9 a.m. both days.

The Virginia team was selected by the VSGA’s junior committee based on players’ performances in select junior and amateur championships. 

 
VSGA board members Charlie Holden of Alexandria, Va., and Grover Walker of Great Falls, Va., will co-captain this year’s Virginia junior team. 

VIRGINIA’S TEAM ROSTER FOR THE 2nd MID-ATLANITC JUNIOR INVITATIONAL

Team Captains: Charlie Holden (Alexandria, Va.) and Grover Walker (Great Falls, Va.)

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